Archive for February, 2009

Need a new mobile, don’t bother with T-Mobile, they just dont’ care!

Rant alert – my current contract with T-Mobile (UK) is now up, 18 months on from when I signed up.
I was on the Flex 35 package which cost £35/month. I’m now looking to upgrade to the new LG Renoir phone with internet etc
Anyway I took a look on their website to see what deals More >

Quake Live launching in open beta | News | TechRadar UK

Quake Live – can’t wait to play this….

Eagerly awaited online shooter Quake Live goes into open Beta today, with the ad-supported game likely to quickly pick up a fan base.
The game formerly known as Quake Zero is id software’s and uses the id Tech 3 engine, but it is likely to be speed of gameplay More >

Developers issue death warrant for IE6 | News | TechRadar UK

A campaign calling for the immediate death of Internet Explorer 6 is picking up pace, with a host of developers castigating the browser that ‘hindered the development of the web’.

.net magazine is supporting a campaign to rid the world of IE6 – a browser that is still being used by a large proportion of people More >

Add META keywords and Description in ASP.NET (DigitalColony.com)

Add META keywords and Description in ASP.NET
Here is the syntax for programmatically adding META tags to an ASP.NET 2.0 page.
HtmlMeta metaDesc = new HtmlMeta();
metaDesc.Name = “description”;
metaDesc.Content = “Tips on roasting coffee at home”;
Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaDesc);
HtmlMeta metaKey = new HtmlMeta();
metaKey.Name = “keywords”;
metaKey.Content = “roast, coffee, home, tips”;
Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaKey);
ASP.NET will render the above code to valid XHTML META tags.
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