For the better part of July and August, we’ve really been in “release” mode at work. Development activities were relegated to bug fixing only, no new feature stuff. And while that is most definitely a crucial part of our cycle, it can get monotonous and boring very quickly. When all you are [...]
Read: Back to development…
My current side project is based on existing software, and the previous developers decided to use forms authentication. This essentially means that all files are restricted to users unless they have been logged in via an AuthTicket. I’m not really complaining about it, because it works quite well in keeping people out. [...]
For as long as I can remember, Pierce Brosnan has played very intelligent, quick-witted, cunning characters. I mean, he’s Remington Steele for pete’s sake! In The Matador, he plays a similar character in Julian Noble. Well, at one time, Julian Noble was a quick-witted, cold-hearted assassin with a propensity for booze and the [...]
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If you don’t remember, see this.
The solution to this was actually pretty simple. Apparently, just return false is insufficient to tell IE to not show the context menu. I had to use oncontextmenu as follows:
oncontextmenu=‘event.cancelBubble = true; event.returnValue = false; return false;’
Putting that code as an attribute in the body tag disabled all [...]
For about a month now, I’ve been dealing with trying to get my side project moved from .Net 1.1 to .Net 2.0. Considering the ridiculous state that some of the code was in prior to the move, it’s no surprise that I had some troubles. But it was mostly compiler warnings (which I [...]
