A (german) info on how to activate hotspot access via iPhone with T-Mobile germany:
http://www.familie-splett.de/t-mobile-hotspot-aktivieren-bei-iphone-vertrag/

Ever wanted to use String.Format on, say, a javascript function? Those include curly braces ( { or } ), but those curly braces are reserved as placeholder marker in String.Format() (i.e. for {0}). Escaping the braces with a backslash does not work.

The solution is pretty simple: You need to double those curly braces to escape them.
String.Format("function test() {{ return calcSomething({0}); }}", "123");

Just a sidenote for myself, because I had to struggle with this today:

You need additional assembly for making asp validators work with ajax.

The solution and it’s explanation of it.

Frank Fischer explained in his blog that he’s a searching guy. It was in a article about taking the common “desktop environment” to the web and whether it’s a good idea.

But then he said something about common ways to organize your work. Talking about files on your computer you could sort everything in thousands of different folders. You also could put everything in one folder and let the environment search for you.

What is the flipside of letting the computer search for you? Perhaps it does not find everything. That’s the main reason why I don’t like sharepoint portal server. During my training on the job I had to write a document about the project I worked on. It was a ZVT 700 cash card terminal interface. I put that document in a sharepoint portal server and forgot about it.

About one and a half year later someone needed that document. Well, I knew about the auther of that document (obviously I checked it in), I knew the title of that document and well - the worst thing happened: Even as I tried to list ALL documents checked in by me (and that was not a lot) exactly THAT document I looked for was not listet. I looked through the whole structure of the sharepoint server for about 4 hours to find that document. Guess what? I never used that server again.

So what if you are searching for something special and it is not listed when your computer searches?
If you have a rough structure of folders and stick to a naming scheme of your documents that will make things easier. There is nothing that hinders you to let your mashine do the search work for you, but if it fails, then you helped yourself to find it by yourself a lot faster.

Via .NET Student Blog:
You can pre-fill password fields using the .AddAttribute(”value”, password); method on the control.

However, you should try to avoid this. But in some cases (i.e. display password strength / weakness during initial password entry on a “new user” page) this totally makes sense.

Trackback to FrankFi’s wiew of the world:

With Dynamic Silverlight dynamic languages like Ruby and Python make their way into Silverlight 2. Not a very stylish start indeed, but that project page is a total winner on usability: No Screenreader problems, no navigation problems, no problems at all. I like pages that are accessible. I like that page. That is User Experience at its best

I was shopping today. But not on a shopping tour, but I shopped tours

First one is two tickets for the “farewell & goodbye” tour of “Fury in the Slaugtherhouse” in Munich in April. I love this band, especially the older songs. I saw them live two or three times and I’m glad to be able to see them once again.

Second one is the 10 year tour of the original “Lord of the Dance” show, when they come to Ulm in october.

Third is two tickets for BAP on their “Radio Pandora” album tour at the end of the year, also in Munich.

You see, I like live events

Yesterday I upgraded my private working system to the freshly released Internet Explorer 8 Beta1.
Today there also is a Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit with some tooling for developing standard conform web sites.

I’ll have a look at this in the next days.

I just updated my blog alltogether with the theme. Actually it’s quite some work to put that spam protection plugin into the template again.

And one plugin went bananas and so I had to disable the WoW Item plugin. But thats no problem, since I don’t play WoW anymore.

I just finished my track about the Windows Management Instrumentation. It was a very funny track indeed: We just had community members of the Delphi-PRAXiS in the audience. How cool is that?

Here are the slides and code samples: WMI Slides and code samples