shawson
An ASP.net web developer, living in West Sussex in the UK.
Homepage: http://www.shawson.co.uk/
Posts by shawson
Overlapping 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 - 22:20Automatic NAS Box shutdown – How to execute applications on Windows Shutdown (Part 2/2)
J000000Sunday11 3, 2011 - 14:37Automatic NAS Box shutdown – How to POST the shutdown command over SSL with HTTP authentication from a dot net Console app (Part 1/2)
J000000Sunday11 3, 2011 - 12:38Android app will not fill the screen on Tablet
J0000006Etc/GMT-1 22, 2011 - 08:04Entity Framework “The data reader is incompatible with the specified complex type.”
J0000006Etc/GMT-1 7, 2011 - 17:07Powershell folder/ sub folder renaming
Maypm11 8, 2011 - 21:49
Flexicoder Blog- WWDC 2012 – Apple TV Apps May 10, 2012I’m lucky enough to be attending the WWDC this year, as it reaches closer to the “day of the long queue” my thoughts are turning to what I hope will be announced at the conference. So here they are in no real order (apart from the first one) Ability to run apps on the Apple […]
- Úll Conference – Review May 1, 2012I’ve just come back from Dublin, Ireland, where I attended the Úll Conference to cover all things iOS related. When the tickets where first released, the conference was advertised as a 3 day affair, starting on Friday 27th April and ending on the Sunday. A friend from Ireland, @realmikebutler, had told me about the conference […]
- Worthing Digital – Local Tech Community March 8, 2012If you are local to the Worthing/Sussex area, please check out the new Worthing Digital group, they’ve arranged a number of good talks and also started up a co-working event. If you have any ideas on helping the community grow you can also post comments on the forum […]
- 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 […]
- WWDC 2012 – Apple TV Apps May 10, 2012