Lots of companies these days have a website (and even more still don’t) and an ever increasing number of clients are contacting me for a redevelopment.
A website I ‘adopted’ required maintenance of the old website during the build of the new site. I came to their news page and noticed a nasty asp script the original developer had used to convert the date from US to UK format (mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy) .
To set the date as UK style or any style, use the LCID property in asp. For UK the value is 2057. To set the session you simply use
<%Session.LCID = 2057%>
You can even use this to format currency.
As always a great resource is the w3schools website, here is the LCID property page on w3schools.
I invited a builder to my house a few weeks ago to quote me for a small gate, farmhouse style and a lock.
“Hmm, I am gonna need hinges for that” he said, no shit I thought! “What type of wood do you want?” he asked to which I replied whatever will do the job.
As usual with builders the usual chit chat ensued with him asking me what I did for a living the subsequently explaining what a web developer is.
“Oh I want an internet” he said which meant he was after a website. He told me what he wanted, a few info pages, great animated intro page (1999 making a comeback!), contact and a quote generator. I thought hey, I can whip this up in half an hour (realistic a week or so including designs) so said I’d do it for £500. He looked at me blankly “I was expecting about 100 notes, not that bloomin (real word used substituted) much”.
Ok no worries I thought, so back to the job at hand, I asked how long it would take him to build my gate. One day he said including building and fitting, I asked him how much it would cost and his quote was…. wait for it…. remember 1 days worth of work here….
£800
Yes, no typos, £800. I replied back with the exact same remark he graced my quote with.
So with unlimited motivation to do it myself (£800!!) I got in the car, drove to my local B&Q and bought everything I needed for £30. That weekend I got up early Saturday and built myself a gate. I think it looks bloody brilliant and to date it hasn`t fallen down.
Anyone need any DIY doing, I charge £800 a day…
It must be hell working at Microsoft. It gets to 4.50pm, ten minutes until you get to go home but then Microsoft time kicks in and you have to stay another 5 hours!
I was installing a Microsoft product on my laptop this morning and made the mistake of looking at the time remaining. Should I sit there and stare at the progress bar or go make a drink, I was gagging for a drink but was also eager to play with my new product. Five minutes it said, ok, I`ll wait. 10 minutes later and we were down to 2 minutes, I have waited so far so what the hey, another 2 minutes won`t hurt. Another 5 minutes later and we were back up to 10 minutes!
By this point I was about to suck the moisture from my eyes so got out of my chair to make my drink and woo the chuff hoo, complete!
Microsoft I hate you!!!!!!!!
After many years of umming and arring I have finally jumped onto the blog bandwagon!
So, why do it now? Well one of the main reasons for not giving in to the blog pressure sooner was time, I simply didn`t have enough of it! I have written some nifty little scripts to automate most of my everyday tasks which leaves me with much more time to spend messing about on the web, ahem sorry, to pursue other activities.
Well, this was my first post, a quickie you will agree but hey, I have popped my blog cherry!