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This is something that baffled me for a good few months until I finally figured out what the hell was going on. If you develop in rails chances are you'll either be using Mongrel or WEBrick to run it locally, but sometimes when I went to start either of them I would get a "This port is already in use", which wasn't exactly fantastic.

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This was more of a test to see how easy it would be to scrape some data using Ruby as I usually use PHP to do this for me. However when using PHP it always seems to be a mess of explodes and regexp's to get what I want. So I wanted to see how other languages do it.

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Again, another nugget of information I hunted around for and just couldn't find. To alternate row styles, or more specifically, background colour...

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This annoyed me somewhat as I couldn't find any good documented examples of how to use resourced icons in a C# project. So, after a few google searches the answer is...

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Not that the trend around here are DataGridView's or anything, it just seems that the small tid bits of information about things people I expect do quite often with them are always hidden away on a dead server most of the time.