I’ve just published a guide to source control with Visual Studio, AnkhSVN and TortoiseMerge.

When you press enter/return on a wizard control in ASP.NET, the default action is to just submit the form, disregarding any buttons which were pressed. This seems pretty counter-intuitive to me – if I press enter on a form, it should be obvious I want to go ‘Next’. After two hours trying to debug an installer wondering why it seemed to work sometimes and not others I eventually tracked it down to the default button. I’m using a master page, but the principle is the same if you’re not.

The method I used uses the Page_Load event to set the default button for the form.

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Mozilla has opened a new store selling all sort of Firefox goodies. It’s bordering on overly-geeky, but isn't it worth sacrificing your dignity to support open source?

The Mozilla Store [Via: UneasySilence]

TouchGraph lets you see a visual spider diagram for any keyword or site. Interesting to see who’s linked to you and from where, and which of your pages are most popular.

TouchGraph

Something I've never known. You can restart windows without waiting 30 seconds for your BIOS to finish loading

Windows Vista: Select Start, then hover over the arrow to the right of the padlock icon until the pop-up menu appears. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking "Restart".

Windows XP: Select Start, then "Shut Down…". Change the drop-down box "Restart". Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking OK

You could probably do the same in Windows 3.11 by dropping to a DOS shell and typing "win".

[Via: CodeJacked]

I know my last three posts have been YouTube videos, but this is definitely worth watching. The instrument in the video is a Theremin, invented by a Russian in 1919. It uses RF oscillators to produce sound without being touched.

[Via: BoingBoing]

A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called "Gay Bomb."

Gay community leaders in California said Friday that they found the notion of a "gay bomb" both offensive and almost laughable at the same time.

Interesting idea, but I can't see it catching on.

Source: CBS5

LOLCode is an "awesome new programming language" for MySpace kids everywhere. It uses familiar vocabulary and with a fast growing list of functions, could soon over-take more traditional languages like PHP.

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
     UP VAR!!1
     VISIBLE VAR
     IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

Read more at LOLCode.com

Bubbleheads are a prototype webcam design by Eric Zhang. The circle around the lens has LEDs which synchronise with the system time, aswell as looking good. I always end up throwing a sheet over my webcam when I’m not using it incase anyone’s watching me pick my nose, but having one of these wouldn’t be creepy at all.

[Via: OhGizmo]

The creators of the Simpsons have made this spoof of World of Warcraft. It's actually pretty impressive, not like the Dominos advert they did.

[Via: WoW Insider]