eBay Scam – sopron9@gmail.com

I’d like to take this opportunity to let others know what happened.
This guy won an eBay auction I had going for my mother.
He paid promptly by PayPal, and requested I post it as cheap as possible to Hungary.
3 days after i marked his item as dispatched, he filed a dispute with  PayPal.

PayPal requested i send them proof of delivery (which i did)

They wrote back, stating that it does not provide a tracking number.
Absolutely right – the buyer didn’t pay for that level of delivery.

PayPal then refunded his money, and he’s disappeared, leaving me out of pocket both with the postage cost, and the item!

His email address is sopron9@gmail.com, and goes by the name of Peter Stadler

Please, don’t do business with him on eBay.

Tags: Scams

Session_Start event not firing

I’ve been scratching my head about this one for sometime…
As I’m sure your aware (or you wouldn’t be reading this) in the Global.asax file, we have the following method:

protected void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}

Placing a breakpoint on this method, I attached the debugger, ran up my application, and the breakpoint was not hit…

What I would of expected to happen would be the debugger break just as the page is loaded. It didn’t.

When my application builds, I have post-build events that copy required files (.aspx, bin dir etc…) to a separate directory, and i use a custom web server for the project (rather than the standard, local IIS Web server)

What this means is that the Global.asax file needs to be in my output directory.

Nothing in the “Global” class will run without the presence of the Global.asax file.

My post-build events did not copy *.asax files.

Upon adding this line, the issue was fixed, and my breakpoint is now hit.

Tags: .net, asp.net, c#, global.asax

I’m Waiting – Free Web 2.0 Waiting Image Generator

You know all those cool "loading" icons displayed on web 2.0 apps these days, while various AJAX calls go off and do their thing?

Well this site now lets you create them, painlessly, for free!

http://www.ajaxload.info/

Here are a few that I created:

 

Tags: ajax, graphics, image, Web 2.0

Var keyword in C# – Implicitly typed variable

I’ll write my own post on this, but for now -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383973.aspx

Tags: c#

Another Car Scam – Thomas Freeman – thomas_freeman1962@yahoo.com

I just received another car scam attempt:
Thomas Freeman – thomas_freeman1962@yahoo.com

I’ve pasted the email below, word for word, and in same font.

Dear sir/Ma I am responding to your advert on auto trader advert site regarding to the car you wish to sell. I am very much interested in buying your above advert subject. I have gone through the details,I am quite satisfied with it. Kindly furnish me with the final price you wish to let it go,if it is affordable so i can know what am going to budget for. Also could you reconfirm your telephone number, the car picture, where the car is located, (inspection) and your method of payment. For further information about the car you can can ring me on 07024076445,07024052864. Thank you very much. Regards. Tom The car is for sale for VN:F [1.8.2_1042] please wait... Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) VN:F [1.8.2_1042] Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) 9-5 Treadmill? November 11th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Fitness   That’s right. A treadmill, with a built in computer. The Steelcase Walkstation. For those with no budget (or a large one) this  workstation / treadmill looks ideal to me! It’s price: from $4999 VN:F [1.8.2_1042] please wait... Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) VN:F [1.8.2_1042] Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Tags: Fitness, funny Camberley Arena – Workout Class Timetable November 10th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Fitness For those looking for the latest workout programme, I’ve found it on the Camerley Arena site, and you can download the PDF below: Download PDF VN:F [1.8.2_1042] please wait... Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) VN:F [1.8.2_1042] Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Recent Post Implementing DataCash 3D Secure with ASP.net Outlook – Error with PDF Preview Handler for Vista How to view Experts Exchange answers Fixing – Log Reader Performance : Critical (Seen in SQL Replication Monitor) Windows XP Virtual Machine – no network adapter / missing driver? Windows XP Virtual Machine – no network adapter / missing driver? Fixing ‘Windows Could not determine if this computer contains a valid system volume’ when installing Windows 2008 Ass-Kissing Blog Comment Spam Twitter User underdog100 gets 300% increase in followers – in 10 minutes Lloyds TSB Phone Insurance – Forgot Password Problem… Recent Comments Wilmington:Well I found this on Digg, and Spencer Marks:Hello there webmaster I like y Max:Uh...Please disregard, I total Max:Hi Alex, I wanted to try out Alex:I believe, for a US layout, it Walter:Do you have the part number fo Ally:Thanks, I found this when I wa Alex:It should be there. If it isn' Rob:Hi. This is very useful. Unfor Lozzy:Thanks!! Just saved me from cl Archives February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 Twitter! Other Social Networks... Shameless Plugs Home About Projects Portfolio Blog Contact