March 2005

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1. Backwards compatibility
   Jesus. If people can’t deal with something as simple as this, what hope is there?
   Published on 01 March in general
2. Downloading via SSL in IE
   Edd Dumbill’s been having problems getting IE to download dynamically generated files and today posted
   Published on 01 March in general
3. Goodbye, Allconsuming
   I’ve given up with Allconsuming.net, it’s just too slow (when it’s responding at all) and too much work to maintain my books there. Over the next few d...
   Published on 08 March in general
4. Finding related items in your RSS datastore
   Jon Udell’s latest screencast “The on-demand blogosphere” shows how he mines the data stored by his aggregator to find out who on his...
   Published on 08 March in general
5. "Microsoft Unveils 'Office Communicator'"
   so says BetaNews. I can’t imagine anything I’d want less than an IM client inside of Word. You’...
   Published on 09 March in general
6. Textile your textareas with Greasemonkey
   First of all, the link to the script: Textile your textareas with pure JavaScript. Rober...
   Published on 11 March in general
7. More on Jabber non-adoption
   Jabber frustrates me a great deal, mainly because I think it should be doing a lot better and acting more coherently than it currently does. The decentralised nature of the system itself seems to h...
   Published on 13 March in general
8. Fact for the day: Updating fields in SQL Server 2000
   You can’t use an ALTER statement in SQL Server 2000 to convert a text field to a ntext field, but you can use Enterprise Manager to do the same thing...
   Published on 15 March in general
9. What's your app's minimum limitation on username size?
   Six characters? Three? Do you have a minimum at all? Should there be a minimum length for a username? Why can’t I have a one-letter username? Obviously there’s a fair chance that someone might have...
   Published on 16 March in general
10. Use accesskeys for navigating Google search results pages with Greasemonkey
    The Greasemonkey script: Enables navigation through Google search results pages using ALT+, and ALT+.
    Published on 17 March in general
11. Changing Jabber status based on my calendar
    Eileen Brown writes about the new Office Communicator: you know, its the little things that make ...
    Published on 18 March in general