Ivan's Space

Storing date and times in UTC on the server side is all nice and dandy, however there are a few gotchas, one of which the definition of “Today” when you a dealing with time zones.

I have just released a new version of my PicasaWeb Uploader tool. This is a maintenance release to fix issues with large video uploads and to port to the new GData API.

I have published my little tool that extracts just the Eclipse colour theme preferences out of the Eclipse exported preferences here. Usage is pretty simple – point it to an Eclipse preferences file and it will spit out the theme, which you can the import into your workspace without importing...

There are a few blog posts around the web regarding ASP.NET MVC custom model binding, but there are two key pieces of information missing. Just a quick intro – to implement custom model binding in ASP.NET MVC we need to implement the IModelBinder interface: public interface IModelBinder { object BindModel(ControllerContext...

Today I needed to import my SQL Server schema into a SQL Server Express instance on a different machine. I only have Visual Studio on this machine and no SQL Server Management Studio installed, so it took me a bit to figure out how to import the schema, so here...