Andrew Rowland

Validation groups in .Net

Evening all. Not posted in a while as I've plenty going on in the 'real' world. Anyway, last week I was building a search form whereby you could either search by reference code, or by using full search criteria.

Using the Zend framework Lucene library Part 2

Note: Since this article was written I've moved to WordPress, and have not implemented the example code listed below. In a previous article I talked about using a library from the Zend framework to create a site search. As you try out this functionality using the search box, above right.

Linux Mint 5 Elyssa

I've been using Ubuntu for the past couple of years now, and have found it a perfectly viable alternative to Windows. As I mentioned in my very first post, I'm not a Linux zealot taking a political stance. It's just a simple preference. If I was a zealot I'd be using a distribution like Gentoo, Slackware, or Linux From Scatch. One for the hard nuts, I just want something that works on my five year old laptop. I'm too tight to upgrade, so that rules out Vista. Now there's an OS that drives Linux fundamentalism.

jQuery UI Date Picker control issue with .Net

Aye, I do whitter on about jQuery. It's ace. The newly released jQuery UI is pretty special too. One of the many great widgets is the Date Picker control.

Using jQuery selectors to reference .Net controls