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Benny Sutton - Microsoft Certified Professional
Welcome
I am a freelance web developer specialising in enterprise level websites built with Microsoft Asp.Net
I also have a wealth of programmer experience with desktop applications going back to 1990 including MS Access and Visual Basic (since 1993),
Active Server Pages,
SQL-Server, and javascript (since 1996).
You may alternatively know me for my exploits in the world of underwater photography, or perhaps as an old friend, or perhaps not at all!
Whatever your reason for visting, Hello!
If your interest in me is work related then please email Benny now, I need the cash!
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Latest Blogs...
My latest music tracks | Finally, the first tracks I have recorded for 20 years!
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Posted By: Benny Sutton --- 4/7/2009
| Google Weather | Here's a quick way to leverage Google Weather (forecasts) in one function.
Just call this C# function by passing in the location and a 4 day weather forecast complete with pictures appears on you web page!
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Posted By: Benny Sutton --- 4/7/2009
| How fast is your code | here's how to benchmark test your code...
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You'll also find some results that may suprise you. I discovered some facts whilst optimising my apps that run contrary to popular opinion. I did not take it for granted that database objects retrieved from the cache gave me better perfomance that just hitting the database. I benchmark tested it and found the cache was slower!
Posted By: Benny Sutton --- 2/13/2009
| Add plural/singular words to your keyword searches | Here's the problem - people cannot find records with textual database searches because they only search on the singular of a keyword. You can't rely on whoever does data input to add both plural and singular - and it would bloat your database anyway.
The answer? Search on both plural and singular automatically. But you can't just add an 's' on the end of a word to arrive at its plural. There are irregular plurals like property/properties so how do you do it without the overhead of a lookup dictionary?
I've solved this (so you don't have to!) with my C# plurals class.
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Posted By: Benny Sutton --- 1/14/2009
| Merry Xmas | Merry Christmas
Joyeux Noël
Frohe Weihnachten
Feliz Navidad
Buon Natale
one thought for the credit crunch this Xmas...
remember, diving takes you through times of no money better than money takes you through times of no diving!
Have a great Xmas and a diving new year
Benny Sutton
Posted By: Benny Sutton --- 12/23/2008
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