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So, the problem is how to sign a message using a personal certificate on Australia's Medicare iKey in a browser and being able to verify the signature in a web app. Well, it is more complicated than that but this was the basic problem to start with. The...
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A constant usability issue has been users losing their data entry on forms by inadvertantly pressing the backspace button when the focus is not in a text box or other appropriate control. As very few users realise that backspace has another function in...
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This is an error I run into frequently and is frustrating because of course their is no indication of what constraint is being violated. So now I run through the three most frequent problems that will cause this: Having a primary key specified on the...
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We have an application that we have 2 skins for reflecting the 2 customers of the application. When I went to using skins, I defeined the MasterPageFile in the web.config file rather than switching it programmatically in each page. Unfortunately, this...
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We are currently writing an internet-based application for use by doctors and health providers to exchange information. Because of this, security and privacy is obviously a concern (although if the laws around this in Australia were the only guide you...
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A requirement in many ASP.Net web applications out there is that you the developer know when your website breaks, the usual way was to use the Application_Error event and then send your self an email or write to a log file. With the event of AJAX itergration...
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[1] The context switch: you are constantly switching between tasks (especially if programming is only one of the jobs you do). Each time you come back to your programming task, you have to remember what you were doing, how you were doing it and what you...
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I was wondering why IT was so hard to do well. Or at least, why so many organisations run into so many problems when dealing with their computing needs. The main thing that seems to paralyze everyone is making a decision. And the reason this is so hard?...
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You decide to start a company. You may even have a business plan, or you have taken the off-the-shelf approach of starting off as a service company with the hope of providing a product which is eventually going to sell in sufficient quantities that it...
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This is a copy of the post on my blog Noiz Waves . AJAX has become quite the buzzword lately when it comes to Web 2.0. Luckily, AJAX is really easy to integrate into new and existing ASP.NET application; it's just a matter of adding some simple controls...
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Cross posted from myResearchSpace I have recently been looking at issues around best practice in web design. Best practice is often encapsulated as the perceived wisdom of professionals which has become enshrined in the collective mythology of the profession....
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The University of Western Australia's website http://www.uwa.edu.au is constantly complained about. In the last user survey, 43% of staff expressed some dissatisfaction with the site. But the site does have lots of good parts to it and has been improving...
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a very simple feature i implemented today was to make an IE only style sheet for my application i'm writing it only took 2 lines to make it work. Firstly put the following line in your asp page (best place would be a master page): <link href="Styles/IEStyle.css"...
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So you've had a beautiful new site created for you by your designer, and all it needs is the content from you to go live. Only problem is it's hard finding time to write it, and soon you realise weeks, even months have gone by and your site is still not...
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By default, Visual Studio 2005 includes a useful range of components for building ASP.NET web applications. Unfortunately these components are usually very basic and have restricted usability, but with a small amount of customisation become highly usable....
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