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Here’s my DJ set aired in November 2009 on the MaGmA Radio Show: November 2009 - MaGmA by Icaro on Mixcloud Tracklist SLOK - Freak [Circle Music] Kriminal - Soon [Nutempo Records] Daniele Papini - Junk Dancer [Mija] Umek - S Cream (Peter Taster Remix) [Hell Yeah] Mikas - Elipse (Manuel De La Mare Remix) [Progressive Grooves] Manuel De La Mare - The Holy Cow [303Lovers] Alan Fitzpatrick - Static [Drumcode] Lissat & Voltaxx - The Music And Me (Manuel De La Mare Remix) [Leaders Of The New School] Dave Seaman & Josh Grabriel - Heyaah (Francis Preve Remix) [Different Pieces] Marshall, Charlie, Peter - CPM 02 [303Lovers] Speca, Roman, Gertz - Happy Time (Tomy Declerque Remix) [Speca Records] Sean Quinn - Rentless (Steve Ward Remix) [Drum Ride Recordings] Contacts Info & Remix enquiries: icaro [at] icaro.dj Booking: icaro [at] icaro.dj ...

Note: This article was originally written in 2009 and may be obsolete due to C# technology improvements. This article shows how to delegate work to an asynchronous thread in C#, allowing for code execution and app responsiveness. You might go a step further by implementing error notifications, polling, or waiting for the procedure to complete at a certain point. Suppose you have the following method: public void UploadFile(string path) { try { //... uploads some file to the server } catch(Exception ex) { // ... handle errors } } And you are implementing it as a web service: you are asked to give an immediate response and upload the file asynchronously, as the user won’t need the upload immediately. ...

Note (2025): This article dates back to 2009. The examples remain useful, though modern apps often prefer fetch()/XHR or form submissions driven by frameworks. The classic form‑build approach below still works universally. HTML 4.0 (W3C) defines how browsers submit forms: GET: append query string to the action URL (application/x-www-form-urlencoded). POST: send a request body to the action URL, using the content type indicated by enctype. Programmatic POST helper Add this in your page head: ...

What you get Headphones Bag Replacement ear pads Adapter to 6.3 mm stereo jack plug My impressions I first heard about this model from a professional producer a while ago. Although Sennheiser is one of the most renowned headphone manufacturers, competition was high and so was the offer. Since I was a beginner I took the advice. Lots of years have passed since then, and they’re still one of the best DJ/producer headphones you can get. Mine doesn’t have a single scratch, although they had a pretty intense life. ...

Note (2025): This article was originally written in 2009. The example code (inline onclick, manual style.display changes) reflects practices of that era. Modern JavaScript uses event listeners, unobtrusive DOM manipulation, and CSS transitions. The post is kept here as an archive and for historical interest. In almost all web applications comes the moment when it becomes necessary to show some notifications to the user. A common practice in the past, even when elegance was unimportant and web pages didn’t show much dynamic behavior, was the use of the method alert() from JavaScript. ...

Suppose you have the following radio controls: <input name="Book" type="radio" value="asp" checked="true">ASP .NET</input> <input name="Book" type="radio" value="wcf">Windows Presentation Foundation</input> <input name="Book" type="radio" value="slg">Silverlight 2.0</input> How do you get the selected value via JavaScript? As you can see in the example, radio controls are declared with a name attribute (not an id). The browser treats each radio input as a different element, but the common name value groups them logically. The getElementsByName Method W3C Documentation — This method allows you to obtain a collection of controls from the DOM by specifying the common name value. ...

When deploying a stored procedure, cleaning up the database’s cache can help apply changes immediately. Have a look at the following code: -- Cleans up db's cache DECLARE @dbID INTEGER SET @dbID = (SELECT dbid FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases WHERE name = 'DBNameHere') DBCC FLUSHPROCINDB (@dbID) The DBCC FLUSHPROCINDB command allows specifying a particular database id, and then clears all the plans from it.

Sometimes you need to schedule tasks in ASP.NET and save both a Start Date and an Interval, stored respectively as DateTime and TimeSpan.Ticks in your database. Editing raw tick values is not exactly good UX, so I bound the proper MetaColumn to the proper UIHint. After some tests, I noticed the GUI was functional but not as intuitive as expected. The solution was to customize the FieldTemplateUserControl of Dynamic Data, to display and save multiple columns I needed (Start Date, Start Time, Occurs – Daily, Weekly, Monthly, etc.). ...

When working with ASP.NET you may need to increase the default limit for file uploads. By editing the Web.config file you can allow larger payloads. Example configuration: <configuration> <system.web> <httpRuntime executionTimeout="240" maxRequestLength="16384" useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="false" minFreeThreads="8" minLocalRequestFreeThreads="4" appRequestQueueLimit="100" enableVersionHeader="true" /> </system.web> </configuration> This configuration allows the upload of files up to 16 MB. Note (2025): The default settings and limits may have changed in more recent versions of ASP.NET/.NET. Check the Microsoft documentation for updated guidance. ...

In the web application that I’m developing using Dynamic Data, I set the DataContext at runtime. The application might bind different contexts depending on many variables. I usually test it on two different browsers, and, because of the session, I need to pass the same procedure twice. The second time, the DataContext is already set, so I don’t need to register the context anymore. The simple condition I use: if (System.Web.DynamicData.MetaModel.Default == null) { // Register context and routes ... } Otherwise I would get this exception: ...