For too long now I have been thinking to set up a regular automated weekly shop from some online Tesco / mysupermarket or other shopping behemoth but can never get around to sitting there with some clunky shopping cart trying to work out which items are most frequently bought by us in the shop and would need pretty much every week on the week that would be substantial enough to justify the delivery cost.

I get around by bicycle and car in London so if this idea below were to come here or when it comes here! it wouldn’t be much use to me but the concept is fantastic for people that spend time on their commute just standing around waiting for a train or a bus while they need to also find time to get their shopping.

The idea is to use your smartphone to scan QR codes from TV advertising billboard shopfronts which then build the shopping cart on your phone application that you order to be delivered to your home.

Then you might find these two pages useful!, they compare one against the other once you have done a shop either online or at the store just bang in your receipt number and their systems will chug away comparing your purchases to what they would have cost at the other shop, if you could have got it for less at the other one they will give you a voucher for double the difference!.

These pages are not really publicized very well.. but then why would they be?

http://www.asdapriceguarantee.co.uk/

https://www.tescopricecheck.com/PriceCheck/

Get saving!

More deals are to be had at www.moneyalerts.co.uk

I took a couple of my old phones (E71 and k800i) on holiday to sell them but that didn’t happen so was looking to try one of those phone recycling by post companies here in the UK last week, I was about to pop down the post office with my jiffy bag full of phones last week to send them off to “Phone Recycle Bank” (found via moneysavingexpert.com) who had the highest payouts, but decided to google them for reviews where I found really bad writeups from people who had either had their phones lost or the company said the phone was not working and paid out less money.

So I did a bit more research and remembered all the mazuma mobiles ads on TV… googled their customer experiences instead where the ratings were far more positive so decided to go with them.

You start on the Mazuma website by entering the phone models  you want to sell and they give you the price they are prepared to pay, which was lower than “Phone Recycle Bank” but at least the phones don’t get lost or you offered less than you thought you were going to get. Then you wack in your address, make a username and a password so they can post you a prepaid bag to send your phones to them in with a delivery note already created.





After two days the envelope arrived, I popped the phones and note in then went off to the post office to get a FREE proof of postage which was just a sticker and a receipt.





The proof of postage give you free insurance up to the value of £41 if your package does not get to mazuma, so off went the phones…

I expected to get no feedback for 2-3 days however the next morning I got an email saying the phone had been received for processing.





And sure enough later the same day (just the say after putting the phones in the post office I got the payment is on it’s way email.





Day 3 (today) I checked the bank account and sure enough there was £49 from Mazuma… I’m very impressed, now rather than cluttering up one of our brand new IKEA cupboards they turned into cash!.

A simple little application that brings the content of one of my sites to the android platform directly, hopefully it should bring a rush of new business.

My first one, and after paying the $25 developer fee that allows you to publish to the market last night maybe some paid software soon, once my ideas gears kick into action.

Download the droid app here

For all those years of code I have floating around that I will never get around to migrating to .net someone has released this little beauty, faster code in 5 minutes!.

http://aspclassiccompiler.codeplex.com/

Project Detail

ASP Classic Compiler is based on our VBScript compiler (sorry, no JScript at this time) that compiles VBScript into a .NET executable. The compiler host is implemented as an ASP.NET handler. The VBScript compiler is based on a hand-written parser and uses Microsoft Dynamic Language Runtime to generate the IL.

This project has two goals:

1. High backward compatibility. The goal is to be able to run the majority of real world ASP pages under ASP.NET unmodified. This will provide a far smoother experience for migrating ASP Classic to ASP.NET. Currently, most ASP projects have to be migrated as a whole because ASP Classic and ASP.NET do not share states. ASP Classic Compiler will run ASP pages under the context of ASP.NET so they share the same state and security. This allows projects to be migrated page by page.
2. Modernize the VBScript. For those who need a scripting language like VBScript, we intend to improve the VBScript. First of all, we will improve performance using techniques like callsite caching. Secondly, the VBScript compiler natively uses .NET types so it can use .NET Framework classes without registering them as COM.

Note that this codeplex project uses some non-open-sourced components, in particular, the VBScript compiler. Please see FAQ for more details. However, while this project is in beta, feel free to use this project for non-production use.

Please visit the Features page for features and limitations. If you encounter an incompatibility, do no modify your page yet. Instead, use Issue Tracker to post bugs and feature requests. Take a vote so that we know the priorities. It is our goal to run most real-world ASP pages without modification.

Typical scenarios to use ASP Classic Compiler

1. When you need to run ASP and ASP.NET side-by-site, ASP Classic Compiler runs your pages inside the ASP.NET runtime. You can migrate page by page and take advantage of the ASP.NET infrastructure immediately.
2. When you want to run ASP pages faster, ASP Classic Compiler runs the same page up to a few times faster using the latest technology in Dynamic Language Runtime. Pages can run even faster if they are modified to use ASP.NET cache and .NET StringBuilder.
3. When you run ASP in Cassini (the built-in web server in ASP.NET), ASP Classic Compiler is the only solution to run ASP pages inside Cassini.
4. Windows Azure application in the cloud, as it is an ASP.NET application. Windows Azure does not support ASP Classic. You can run php but you have to run it in full-trust. ASP Classic Compiler can run in standard partial-trust since it is just another ASP application. You can even deploy pages to Azure storage so that you do not need to repackage your application to deploy a change.
5. As view in ASP.NET MVC. Since ASP tends to generate html directly, it is more natural to migrate ASP pages to ASP.NET MVC than ASP.NET WebForms. We will provide a view engine so that the ASP Classic Compiler can be used as a view engine for ASP.NET MVC.
6. As the template engine for a code generator. The ASP Classic Compiler can be hosted anywhere from a console to a GUI application. We run ASP Classic Compiler in our unit testing project.
7. When you want to deploy a dynamic website on a read-only media/devices, it is possible to package ASP Classic Compiler with an embedded web server (e.g. Cassini) and database (e.g., SQL Server Compact edition) to run from a CD-ROM. ASP Classic Compiler generates code in memory. Users can run it when logging into the standard user account without requiring elevated privileges. .NET 2.0 is the only thing that needs to be preinstalled. IIS is not needed.