What's New?

29 April 2008: Added page of information about Neon Rosy Barbs.
13 March 2008: Added page of information about Tiger Barbs.
25 January 2008: Added Affmeter affiliate income monitoring software review page to the software reviews section.
12 January 2008: Added code documentors page.
18 December 2007: Added information and photographs about Cheung Chau Island to the Hong Kong Travel Log section.
8 December 2007: Another two pages added to the New York Travel Log: Coney Island and Times Square and Grand Central Station area.
7 December 2007: Another page added to the Tokyo Travel Log: Shimbashi and Roppongi.
6 December 2007: Another page added to the Tokyo Travel Log: Hamamatsucho.
5 December 2007: New SQL article added: How to create database tables programmatically using Tranact-SQL.
30 November 2007: New SQL article added: Determining the year, month or week using the DatePart function.
28 November 2007: Started the New York Travel Log.
27 November 2007: Redesigned the home page.
26 November 2007: More pages added to the Tokyo Travel Log: Setagaya, Mount Fuji.
22 November 2007: More content added to the following pages of the Tokyo Travel Log: Shinjuku, Shinagawa, Ueno, Kamakura.
20 November 2007: Started Tokyo Travel Log from my October 2007 trip to Japan. Seven pages added: Harajuku, Akihabara, Yokohama, Shibuya, Shinagawa, Odaiba and Kawasaki and Kawasaki Daishi.
5 November 2007: New SQL articles added: Finding the current date in Microsoft's Transact SQL and Using Cursors in Transact-SQL.
30 September 2007: New SQL article added: Creating technical documentation for your SQL Server database.
29 September 2007: New SQL article added: Using apostrophes (single quotes) in Transact SQL.
30 August 2007: My software documentation portal is now available: http://www.softwaredocumentation.info/.
22 August 2007: Updated the biography page.
22 August 2007: Rewrote software developer tools pages.
22 August 2007: Added Visual Basic 6.0 Documentation Tool page.
1 August 2007: Added along the Kowloon Canton Railway (KCR), East Tsim Sha Tsui - Kowloon Tong, Tai Wai - University and Tai Po Market - Lo Wu pages to the Travel Log section.
22 July 2007: New product released. The VB Documentation Tool documents Visual Basic 6.0 projects and project groups.
14 June 2007: Added ASP/ASP.NET article: ASP Website Security.
12 June 2007: Added ASP.NET article: How to stop automated web robots from visiting ASP/ASP.NET websites.
4 June 2007: Added Ocean Park (Hong Kong) page to the Hong Kong Travel Log section.
3 June 2007: Added page of information about Red Wag Platy tropical fish.
1 June 2007: New SQL Help articles: Using the Transact SQL NullIf Statement and Using the Transact SQL Round Statement.
5 March 2007: Added Hong Kong index page to the Travel Log section.
5 March 2007: Added Travel Log section.
29 January 2007: Added ASP Did You Mean... review.
20 January 2007: Added ASP.NET article: Changing Data in an ADO.NET DataTable Using AcceptChanges Method.
16 January 2007: Added ASP article: Detecting ASP Website Errors in IIS Log Files.
10 January 2007: Added ASP article: Using the Queue Class in the Microsoft .NET Framework.
20 December 2006: Added ASP.NET article: Improving .NET performance using the StringBuilder Class.
23 November 2006: Added page of information about ASP Spell Check.
9 May 2006: Added an Upside Down Catfish page and updated the aquatic frogs page.
8 November 2005: More fish news! Added extra image on Algae loach page, added new pages for Bumble Bee Goby and Aquatic Freshwater Frogs.
14 September 2005: Added SQL programming articles on pattern matching using the Patindex and Charindex transact SQL functions.
13 September 2005: Added Using the Transact SQL ASCII and Char Functions SQL programming article.
4 July 2005: Added Sarah Jane Szikora's Malteasing page.
30 May 2005: Added a page for my software developer tools.
28 May 2005: Added a SQL Color Coder web form.
8 May 2005: Added page of information about Red Platy tropical fish.
24 April 2005: Added information about Cobalt Blue Dwarf Gourami.
6 March 2005: Added some information about Algae Loaches.
5 March 2005: Added information about forthcoming Doug Hyde releases.
1 March 2005: The Website Utility is now able to create a JavaScript search engine on a website.
27 February 2005: Added some information about Algae Shrimps.
25 February 2005: Added some pages about savings and investments.
13 February 2005: New ASP.NET tutorial: Numerically Sorting DataView Columns in the .NET Framework.
10 February 2005: Added a new SQL Help article: Detecting Numbers in Transact-SQL Using the IsNumeric Function.
4 February 2005: Added some information about my tropical fish tank.
30 January 2005: Added Doug Hyde artwork gallery.
30 January 2005: Another new SQL Help article added: Generating Random Strings of Characters in Transact-SQL.
23 January 2005: New ASP.NET tutorial: How to Determine the number of frames in an animated GIF using ASP.NET.
23 January 2005: New SQL Help article: Selecting Left and Right SubStrings of Strings in Transact-SQL.
21 January 2005: New SQL Help article added: String Comparisons in Transact-SQL Using the Like Function.
16 January 2005: New ASP.NET article added: How to Determine the Dimensions (Width and Height) of Uploaded Images in ASP.NET.
3 January 2005: Added a page about the Lophophora williamsii cactus.
12 December 2004: More SQL tutorials are available: Using SET ROWCOUNT to Limit the Number of Rows Returned, Using @@Rowcount to Determine the Number of Rows Affected by a SQL Statement, Determining String Length in Transact-SQL, Changing Case of Strings (Upper and Lower Case), and Trimming Strings in Transact-SQL, and Generating Random Numbers in Transact-SQL.
4 December 2004: A new SQL tutorial is available: Using the Transact SQL Coalesce Statement.
14 November 2004: New ASP.NET article added: Generating Random Numbers in the .NET Framework.
12 November 2004: A new SQL tutorial is available: Using the Transact SQL Case Statement.
12 November 2004: New ASP.NET article added: Dynamic Loading of ASP.NET User Controls using the LoadControl Method.
31 October 2004: New ASP tutorial added: Creating an ASP Search Engine for your Website.
30 October 2004: Some pictures of Torquay Seafront During the Storms, 28 October 2004.
14 October 2004: A new VBScript article shows how to perform complex text substitutions in VBScript regular expressions.
10 October 2004: A new technical article looks at like search engine optimisation and some of the issues that prevent search engine robots from crawling websites.
1 October 2004: After 4.5 years, this site is having a redesign! The new design looks like this page and all of the pages in the site will eventually look like this.
28 September 2004: There is a new page containing photographs of the Red Arrows air display team.
28 September 2004: There is now a third Canon EOS300D / Digital Rebel photo gallery.
12 August 2004: A new tutorial is available: Generating Randomly Ordered SQL Server Result Sets.
25 July 2004: A new tutorial is available: Making Null Values Appear Last in SQL Server Result Sets.
25 July 2004: A new SQL Server Help part of the website has been created.
5 July 2004: A new tutorial is available: Creating a JavaScript Search Engine for your Website.
23 June 2004: The new Devon Wildlife Photographs and Living Coasts Photographs pages show some wildlife photographs taken in and around South-West England.
18 May 2004: The website has a new JavaScript powered search facility created by The Website Utility.
22 April 2004: The Website Utility is now available. A free trial version is available!
1 December 2003: There is a commercial version of the popular JavaScript Banner Ad Rotator that is able to open links in a new browser window. Registration via PayPal is just $3!
17 July 2003: Two new ASP articles: Searching Index Server With ASP and More about Searching Index Server With ASP.
15 July 2003: New ASP.NET article: ROT13 Encoding in ASP.NET using C# and VB.NET.
1 May 2003: ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook. Contains over 250 VB.NET examples (C# versions available from the book's website).
21 August 2002: The Index Server Companion is now available.