Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category

Monday March 17, 2008 11:20

ECDIS software

Posted by rousso as .NET Development, ECDIS, Past Projects

I am working on two ECDIS projects in parallel. Both have to do with monitoring sea traffic. As some details of the projects are confidential, I am not currently able to release any details on the projects themselves. But I can talk about my work...

Thursday February 21, 2008 09:26

Can’t change access modifiers when inheriting from Generic Types.

Posted by rousso as .NET Development

Well I might be silly, but I had not run-up to this one yet. Until just now: You cannot change the accessibility level of a class member by means of hiding when inheriting from a generic type. Consider this example. A simple console...

Thursday July 19, 2007 02:57

Information aesthetics

Posted by rousso as Notable Sites and Services

Only today I discovered this site on data visualization and visual design, which I found extremely interesting: information aesthetics (http://infosthetics.com/) I subscribed to its RSS feed and I might also add it somewhere here in my site...

Friday June 22, 2007 04:09

About Twitter

Posted by rousso as Notable Sites and Services

I found out about Twitter on a friend's blog a couple of months ago. Today I was looking for an alternative and I bumped on lots of posts debating Twitter, its value and its alternatives. So I am posting some links to them along with my personal opinion...

Saturday December 2, 2006 02:54

Multiple calls to RegisterOnSubmitStatement and Client-Side Validation

Posted by rousso as ASP.NET

Ok! Here is a new thing I discovered yet again the hard way... In short: Do not call Page.ClientScript.RegisterOnSubmitStatement after the Page Load event. (What?!) Well yes! It's not under all circumstances that you can notice the...

Wednesday November 29, 2006 02:57

xsl:include, xsl:import & msxml:script blocked on WSS 3 XML WebParts

Posted by rousso as SharePoint

I discovered today (the hard way), that we can no longer use xsl:include and xsl:import elements in XSL Transformations for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 XML WebParts. Along with those msxml:script is also blocked. I am going to investigate this...

Saturday November 25, 2006 12:45

Moving to WSS 3

Posted by rousso as SharePoint

I am in the process of replacing my old personal site with a new version based on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. My previous site is based on Windows SharePoint Services 2.0, and is currently located at http://rousso.gr/. Though I could just...

Tuesday September 19, 2006 01:58

CS:Editor ViewState

Posted by rousso as Community Server

Quick Tip: CommunityServer 2.1 uses TinyMCE as a rich text editor. They use what appears to be a wrapper to TinyMCE: CommunityServer.Controls.Editor. As I am developing an application on top of CS 2.1 I am using the same rich text editor and...

Monday May 29, 2006 02:00

UseSubmitBehavior & GetPostBackEventReference

Posted by rousso as ASP.NET

funny thing… I needed a button (in an ASP.NET 2.0 page) to post-back and raise an event for another control. That means that I click a button but the post-back event is not handled by the button clicked but instead by another control on the same...

Situation: You use SQL 2000 Reporting Services, to create a report (probably same applies for SQL 2005, but I have not tried it yet). You report expects various parameters but the user does not need to specify all of them through the user interface....