Tim's tech blog
Welcome! This is my tech blog, my personal feed, and generally home to some of my private ideas, thoughts, rants, etc...
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Review: Android, Google's OS for mobile devices (disappointing) (13 July 2010)
I've been evaluating Android, Google's attempt at a mobile phone OS, and I'm not impressed. I'm particularly disappointed by some of the most obvious limitations and flaws I found as soon as I started trying to use Android. Despite ...
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YQL example -- get the direct URL for a file on SkyDrive (25 June 2010)
Yahoo Query Language (YQL) is an extremely useful and versatile free web service, API provided by Yahoo. YQL acts as a single, convenient point of entry for numerous other APIs. So, for example, you can use YQL to get inter-related data from a Bing sea ...
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SEO tip: prevent multiple slashes in website URLs on IIS (24 June 2010)
IIS is a highly robust and flexible web server. It allows you to use almost any URL that is technically possible. But this means your website may allow URLs which you don't want. For example, IIS will handle URLs with extra slashes. Y ...
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The Sun deploys bus load of Page 3 models to support England in World Cup (23 June 2010)
The Sun newspaper deployed a bus full of gorgeous Page 3 models in London today, as a show of support for the England team and their football match this afternoon in the World Cup 2010. The Page 3 girls were handing out England flags (an ...
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ASP.NET MVC code example: calling one Action from another, using the same View (23 June 2010)
Sample code: how to call an Action from within another Action, and set a specific View, in an ASP.NET MVC web application Today I encountered a real-world scenario in which it was convenient to call one action from another, using the same view in b ...
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