Dave Clarke (see CV) is a freelance IT consultant and director of his own company Visualize Systems Ltd. He can provide a number of design and development services, with emphasis on the development of usable intranet and internet solutions. A variety of dynamic web techniques and technologies are often used, including Active Server Pages (ASP), ASP.Net, CGI, ActiveX, COM, Javascript and database connectivity. More about services offered.

Post Mix 08

Got back from Mix 08 (Las Vegas) on Monday. Overall, a great conference - all of the sessions I attended were (on the whole) above avera...(more)

Mix 2008... just over a week to go

Mix 2008 is less than two weeks away. I missed it last year and reading the post event blogs etc, kicked myself for not attending. This year ...(more)

Using ExcelWriter on 64bit Kit

I've recently been migrating some web apps to 64bit Windows 2003 Server. So far all testing has gone pretty well, with most pure ASP.Net apps running on the kit with little or no code changes.

MS Search Server 2008

Well it's been a long time coming but it looks as if Microsoft have decided to release a standalone 'crawler-based search engine' (based on its SharePoint offering) set to replace its ra...(more)

VS 2008 released end of November

Looks like we all need to get those licenses organised... Visual Studio 2008 (aka 'Orcas' and .Net 3.5) is due end of this month:

Book on ODP.Net

Do a book search on Amazon for most .Net topics and you will usually be rewarded with a wealth of doorstops to choose from. Enter the search term “ODP.Net” though and you get erm… one result. This...(more)

Upgrading from Visual SourceSafe 6d to VSS 2005

We've recently just upgraded from Visual SourceSafe 6d to 2005. The process was (surprisingly) painless.

This is worth a read before you start: Passing lists to SQL server stored procedures

One much needed feature missing from SQL Server 2005 is the ability to pass "a list of values" from .Net as a parameter to a T-SQL based stored procedure. Loads of scenarios spring to mind but&nbs...(more)

IE Developer Toolbar released

I've talked about the IE developer toolbar before, but at that time it was beta.

MS have now (I say now, it was actually in May but hey I had a baby recently so forgive the d...(more)

N-Tier development revisited

Discussion forums on the web are full of .Net N-tier questions, especially on approaches for achieving loosely coupled layers and lightweight data passing mechanisms. Is it ok to pass a DataS...(more)

Here's what the press have to say about the UN site:

"... the best place to find out about that stuff [usability] ... an important addition to any designer's bookmarks." Internet Magazine