This problem took me a few days to sort out.  We just started using Ajax in our application and everything was running fine, loading fast and being totally awesome (because its Ajax , and I heart Ajax).  I couldn’t figure it out, every browser and every O/S this was working fine, there was just one customer using IE6 [...]

I’ve always used CSS to handle page breaks when printing from the web, and its always been easy and pretty straight forward to implement.  However FireFox would stop printing after 1 or 2 pages from what should have been about a 10 page print job.
After some googling I found that a fair few people have [...]

We came across a weird problem a few weeks ago where we were using an UpdatePanel through ASP.NET AJAX (.Net Framework 3.5 SP1) with an asp:dropdownlist on that page.  When the update panel did a post back using ajax the drop down lists stopped working.  You could click on the select list but they would not [...]

Our web app has been having some problems with ” [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.” error at random times.  The connection string is fine, the app runs without any dramas, but at random times it will display this error message. After consultation with other people we think that the connection pooling may be failing on some areas of our app.  I wasn’t really sure how to measure this [...]

A while ago I was approached by my boss
“I need a list of all the changes a former employee committed into subversion”
“No problem!” I replied with gusto.
It didn’t turn out to be as easy as I thought.  I figured there would be an inbuilt subversion command to do this, but after searching the subversion documentation [...]