By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 24 November 2006
 Today i had to filter an xml document based on the start value of an attribute and it took me ages to work it out as before i'd always done exact matches. Plus couldn't find any egs where they used anything bar =. So if i have a xml schema like
<books>
<book name="Bronwens adventure"></book>
<book name="Bronwen vacations"></book>
</books>
and i have a XMLDocument with this in it. If i want to find all the book's whose name starts with "Bronwen" I can do a xpath query as follows:
doc.SelectNodes("//book[starts-with(@name,'Bronwen');
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By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 24 November 2006
1:30 youtube video showing how to find australian places and street at mygeoland.com. Shows off the 3D mode of Virtual Earth.
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 23 November 2006
 mygeoland.com, the new way to search for places in Australia. Powered by Virtual Earth 3D and customised by Soul Solutions for Australia we believe it is the simplest, fastest and coolest way to find a street, suburb or place in Australia.
Go check it out: mygeoland.com
Simply double click the state, and start typing the street name and extension e.g. ‘smith st’
Because you centred the map on the state, the search box automatically populates the state and country. That’s right Virtual Earth has a powerful search engine for Australia but you need to know how to use it. Type in “Opera H ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Got asked to work out the number of lines of real code in our project today. Came across a pretty cool tool called slick edit - Free gadgets that plug in to VS2005. There's a few gadgets there but i used the SLOC report to generate a pretty graph that you can save as a jpg and email to your boss etc. How easy is that 
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 20 November 2006
Well i've been working from home for 2 weeks now. I must say that overall I am enjoying it.
I thought that not being on a bus for 2 hours every day would be a good thing...but i've realised it was my zone-out time to let my head clear of all thing work-related. So I guess i just have to find something else to do between "finishing work" and "getting home" to do the same thing.
I've been racking up 45 hours a week without really realizing it which isn't such a bad thing. Means if i want a long lunch i got plenty of hours up my sleeve.
It's really quiet though...miss the simple office sounds e.g the sound of ppl typing on a keyboard, so I thought i could record some office background sounds or something. Of course the biggest thing is there's not a physical person to turn around and ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 17 November 2006
So lately I've been converting some SOAP WebServices to Rest webservices. There's lots of papers on REST but atm there's no real standards, just guidelines. As far as i can tell, it's just passing data using HTTP.
So if i have an existing webservice here: www.SoulSolutions.com.au/MyService.asmx with a method called GetPoints i'd want to call a method "GetPoints" in rest as www.SoulSolutions.com.au/MyService/Rest/GetPoints
and i can either pass the params in the query string or the request header/body. I'll go with header just for the fun of it.
Cause i just want to use the existing names, I'll won't user GET, PUT, and DELETE to determine the action of my method..but that's just me being laz ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 7 November 2006
With the launch of V4 of Virtual Earth we have put together a simple wiki open to anyone over at ViaVE.
http://viavirtualearth.com/wiki/AllPages.aspx
The idea is that all those little cool snippets of code go some useful and the power of many can maintain them and make them better.
I will be using the wiki for every bit of cool code i find about VE. Why don't you give me a hand?
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Was having trouble opening some web apps today due to the fact that VS2005 has gone to web projects. Kept getting "unable to open project" and "project of incorrect type" messages.
Ended up installing VS2005 Web application project patch which involves 2 downloads:
1. Pre-requisite patch
2. WAP install package
Now the error is gone and my project opens...yay.
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Head on over to local.live.com and see Virtual Earth in 3D!!
V4 of VE was just released and feature a 5.5mb plugin for full 3D rendering. I'll post more as it comes to hand. Very cool stuff.
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