leslog

A couple of years ago, Gir and I were thinking of holidaying in Florence/Rome, and though we never went, I’m still keen on going at some point, and me hating the thought of not being able to understand the language at all, have decided to swot up.

This may well turn out to be one of those personal projects that never get finished, but a week ago, I bought a “teach yourself beginners Italian” book and accompanying CD and have since been plugged in at every opportunity. So far, I’m absorbing it quite well, and having mastered the essential cheating-man’s phrase, “parla englese?” I have reached unit four, which introduces adjectives, likes, dislikes, preferences and numbers over 20. I’m quite enjoying the learning experience right now; if it lasts, there’ll be another update when I’ve got to the milestone of unit 10.

Another post for my own future reference, and maybe it’ll help someone else when google comes by. I spent a very long time looking for the answer.

I have a DropDownList, and when value 999 is selected I want the Textbox in my UpdatePanel to become visible. Worked a charm with this:

But, for reasons I won’t go into, I needed to dynamically declare the trigger in code. So, what I have finally come to is this:

Hurrah. The bit I was missing was RegisterAsynchPostBackControl.

So, on Friday after work, Gir brought home our Wii. We had half an hour before we would need to get out the house again for the evening’s boozing, so we had a quick game of bowling. This is the first time I’ve ever played Wii, and this is the score sheet from that first game. Honestly.

At frame 5, I was feeling the pressure and crumbled mid-game, but otherwise I can’t help but feel a bit smug. Not bad for my first go.

Just had to look up the HTML character entity for a right arrow → which pleasingly is →. I’ll not forget that one in a hurry.

Also very memorable is ∴ for the therefore symbol ∴ though I doubt I’d ever need to use that in real life.

When will they introduce smiley characters into the specification? That would be so cool.

There’s a lot of blogging and forum posting about this error, but I wanted to make a note-to-self about what fixed it for me, for future reference.

From C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions\v1.0.61025\web.config grab the <httpHandlers> block and stick it inside <system.web>