Archives for April, 2008
Recreating the vbscript now() function in javascript
Friday, April 25th, 2008
I have recently been revamping a feedback mechanism which was built using vbscript, seen as I work on an intranet we were using the now function to take a snapshot of the time that the user made an entry. As usual the JavaScript equivalent doesn’t work exactly the same, I didn’t want to amend the [...]
Open Mesh
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Looking at what Live Mesh it’s very easy to be wooed by what it promises, but is that strictly true? BBC News has quite rightly run a story about the questions that every developer is asking themselves, is it really going to be totally open? Just looking at Microsoft’s (or Micro$oft as ‘some’ people may [...]