shawson
An ASP.net web developer, living in West Sussex in the UK.
Homepage: http://www.shawson.co.uk/
Posts by shawson
IIS7 UrlRewrite Outbound links with Compression Enabled
AM00000080000005731 22, 2011 - 08:50Best program for creating favicon’s– infact maybe the best program… ever!
AM00000080000005631 19, 2011 - 08:03Refactoring a web project so you can share user controls across others
AM00000080000000631 11, 2011 - 08:57Wizard generated SSIS package dumps critical files in Temp folder- breaks after a log out!
PM000000120000000931 5, 2011 - 12:00New Adobe HTML5 Animation tool “Edge”- free tech preview
PM000000120000005231 1, 2011 - 12:48Overlapping arrow style menu, and CSS sprite sheets.
J000000Tuesday11 26, 2011 - 22:24Adding minification and obfuscation of your Javascript and CSS to your ASP.net build process using Yahoo YUI Compressor
J000000Friday11 22, 2011 - 09:00Handy article on running IE 6, 7 & 8 alongside each other on Win7 using XP mode
J000000Tuesday11 19, 2011 - 08:52Entity Framework 4.1 Code First (With One to Many relationship) Code Example
J000000Sunday11 10, 2011 - 21:43Netgear ReadyNAS Duo command line shut down utility
J000000Monday11 4, 2011 - 22:20
Flexicoder Blog- Open doors effect at App launch February 4, 2012This is a copy of a blog entry I originally wrote for ios-blog There are a number of apps in the App Store that launch with a set of closed doors, these are then opened to present the actual UI underneath it. I had to create this effect for an app I wrote for a […]
- New App – Ballpark Costs January 26, 2012When potential clients ask for a ballpark figure on development costs, these are the questions I ask to help clarify whats required and therefore affect the cost. They are in no particular order… What are the target platforms, iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Mobile? If iPhone do you want a universal version, i.e. the same app […]
- CCLabelBMFont – not displaying May 13, 2011I hit a problem today where the CCLabelBMFont wasn’t rendering the text I wanted at all. I created the the fnt file using http://www.n4te.com/hiero/hiero.jnlp Turns out that as it creates the underlying png for some reason it saves it in a flipped format, therefore you need to load the png into your favourite graphics package […]
- AirPrint – direct to the Printer February 7, 2011If you have an AirPrint enabled printer and an iPhone/iPad running iOS4.2 or above you can print directly to the printer without the need for both devices to be connected through the same WiFi access point. On your iOS device, go to your WiFi settings and in the list of networks you should see an […]
- Free icons website August 25, 2010Great site for sets of free icons that can be used in your apps http://webtreats.mysitemyway.com/ Social Bookmarking […]
- Localisation language names August 2, 2010When creating a new localisation file Xcode expects you to supply the correct name for the file, the list of valid values is here Social Bookmarking […]
- Open doors effect at App launch February 4, 2012