September 2004 - Posts
Jeez, now is not the time to lose 3 days on weird issues, but that's exactly what just happened. <background> First, some background. Our staging server runs a cool tool called ISAPI Rewrite , kindly provided by our host (the #1 ASP.NET host used
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This is kinda scary. I returned from the ASP Insiders event at Microsoft just one month ago. It was at this event that Dozing Dogs and CoverYourASP.NET was born. We're still refactoring the OurLittleNet codebase to remove the OurLittleNet-ness of it (you
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"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso Like I need more pressure! 39 days to go . Quote seen on Tom Peters ' site - yet another great link from Scoble . I know you see me Robert.
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Today's fun and games involves fixing another bug caused by the recent move to Master Pages. On the page that edits content on this site there is a popup window where you can choose an image to display. This is all run via clientside script, like this:
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I recently finished my trial of NewsGator and bought a license. I have one screen almost dedicated to Outlook so Newsgator fits in perfectly (it's integrated into Outlook). I had one issue with it though, which is why I posted to their forums. If you
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I'm disappointed. I've had a Samsung i700 for a while and love it, but I haven't tried browsing online before. So last night while watching Molly at Karate I tried to blog. Surpringly, I browsed to the site just fine, nothing to set up, download
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I should have said, that CSS is setup to only works on hyperlinks, e.g. <a href="" class=OrangeButton>XML</a>. If you want to use it on a <span> or similar, just add .OrangeButton to the declaration..
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Look top right and you'll see the familiar orange button that appears somewhere on any blogging web site. Well, I wanted a similar button with a question mark in it, to point to a description of what this XML/RSS thing is all about. (Temporarily it points
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This guy is insane.
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From Eric Rudder's blog , via Scoble of course. I completely missed the significance of the Microsoft® ISV Buddy Program when it was announced. I remember watching the video , laughing, but never really got the idea. In fairness to me, I think someone
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James Avery has a hot new yahoo group for people going independant.
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4:37pm and it's almost too dark to see outside already. Howling winds and driving rain care of whichever is the Hurricane Du Jour. And my wife has gone to the airport to pick up The In-Laws . Dun, dun-dun-dun, Duuuuuun. (Actually, they're a good lot,
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For the last few weeks I've been blogging by writing more text in default.htm and uploading it. Now, more than ever, do I appreciate how much easier life is with a CMS! Today I uploaded our Dozing Dogs CMS product and configured it to just show this blog
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Don't mess with what you don't understand. That's a good motto that I keep forgetting, and today it tripped me up again. I started off with Andy Smith's ( www.metabuilders.com ) Master Pages and have been happily modifying it for a few weeks to add more
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I got IM'd by Bryan Andrews about my DNN post yesterday, and of course he straightened it out within a few minutes. I needed to modify the user permissions a little before it would work. So, I have DNN up and running locally now. My first quick and dirty
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Since I'm getting back into nerdsville again, I revisited my old ASPRSS.com web site and pulled out the free code for creating an RSS. You can too. I shall be turning this blog into a feed you can subscribe to soon, I promise. I just installed NewsGator
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Back to real productive work today. Since I needed a blog for this site I have spent a few hours designing and implementing blogs using my existing Content class with an extra couple of user controls. I'm pleased how easy it was. I have a few more hours
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When I wanted friendly URL's way back in the early beta ASP.NET 1.0 days there wasn't much known about HttpHandlers and HttpModules, so I implemented my version just as I had in Classic ASP; using a custom 404 handler. Ever since I have had dreams of
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On Friday I had lunch with Dana Coffey and Bryan Andrews and we spent most of the time talking about DNN now that Bryan is on the committee (or whatever it's called). I admit I haven't looked at any of the open-source portals since IBuySpy, but Bryan
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Today I realized something; 60 days isn't long to turn a production web site into a product. Ok, the bugs were shaken out long ago, but there's a huge difference between a product that you teach a few in-house developers and one that you send in a zip
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