Month: December 2005

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Performancing Plugin – Blogging tool for firefox

Well, I’ve just installed the Performancing Plugin for firefox. And I have to say, so far it kicks ass! Having a split screen interface from within firefox in which I can type my blog posts, make notes, post to any blog I want to (wordpress, blogger, movabletype etc), all the time being able to search the interenet and browse is great. Its even WYSIWYG! This could actually be a stand alone blogging tool without too much trouble.

The only thing left I can see is for my notes and settings to be stored centrally so I can blog from any browser with the plugin installed!

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Strange ASP.Net 2.0 Error

While developing a new web site using ASP.Net 2.0 recently I came across this strange error on compilation.

Cannot implicitly convert type ‘string’ to ‘System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox’

It took my ages to work out what the hell was the problem, which string was it trying to convert?

The problem occurred because of the new Page.Title property. I had a TextBox whose ID was also set to Title. It was therefore trying to convert the string in the Page declaration into a textbox – not gonna work! This Title property is new for ASP.Net 2.0 so you might want to watch that one in your apps.