August 2006 - Posts
I only started working with ASP.NET 2.0's master pages yesterday (it seems longer) but I just finished the conversion - or let's say RC1 of the conversion. One interesting thing I found was that many people have settled for adding data to the
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I've been enjoying full-time development for the last few weeks, especially since it's pure ASP.NET 2.0 all the way now baby! Lots of fun stuff, and yesterday I finally kicked out the cool-for-1.1 MetaBuilders master pages and converted to ASP.NET
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As I wrote in my first British Inside post , I managed to get the original photoshop file from Creative that the paperclip blog skin was made from. I wanted to do this so that I could replace the title image with my own, but keep the post-it note over
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Dave Burke has done an amazing job with the Daily News (and kudos to whoever made the suggestion for a full-time evangelist; a truly inspiring decision) - Dave posted the Fiftieth Edition today. Looking at this from a business POV, Dave has made a big
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Someone just asked where categories went in CS 2.1. Although many people picked up via blogs and forums that categories were morphed into tags, others didn't get the memo. The 2.1 announcement didn't specifically point this out either. Regardless,
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I've been meaning to post a picture or two of my laptop for a few weeks now, since Scoble posted about laptop stickers . Well, here it is with lots of room left for cool hot rod/retro stickers as I find them: I went one step further and took my laptop
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From a Microsoft employee's " Ten worst presentation moments ", via Scott Guthrie : Some things are best left said only at home … At home, my family had an ‘in-joke’ about the “Tea Fairy”. This was the invisible
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Well, that didn't last long. After four days I returned the Moto Q and got a replacement. Another Moto Q; I'm a sucker for punishment. From day one, the sucker kept hanging up. I'd pick it up to do something and it wouldn't turn on. Or
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After a very sweaty morning in the attic fitting four more spot lights ("cans" I think) to the kitchen ceiling Charles came over this afternoon and we stripped the '37 engine that has been wrapped up since ~1996 when I crashed the '37
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As I've said before, I don't mind asking stupid questions (why can I clearly hear ScottW's voice saying "just as well"?) - I'll post it all here just in case it helps someone Today's "I wish I hadn't asked that"
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I love the smell of green in the morning. I'm in the middle of a huge refactoring project and although I'm working in VSTS my old habits made me stick to NUnit that the tests were originally written in. I haven't even looked to see if VSTS
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I like a clean output window when I'm building in Visual Studio; I fix warnings so that all I see in the window is a bunch of "0 errors, 0 warnings". So Visual Studio 2005 gave me some work to do. Although I've been using 2005 for a
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I was getting fed up with my Samsung i700 - my pretty old fashioned Pocket PC brick. Every day I have to re-align the screen, and once a week the stylus falls out. It's on the bottom of the phone for goodness sake! And then last night I opened the
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So, this weekend I did nothing of interest to geeks. No Community Server tag on this post. Instead, it was all about me and my garage. First, Tara and I sheetrocked the lower 4 feet of the walls (the hardest 4 feet of course with all the outlets in it).
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I had to upgrade this afternoon when I fixed a problem that stopped trackbacks working on the B2 that I was running. Unfortunately, the fix broke the single post page completely and no amount of fiddling with the siteurls.config would fix it. So I performed
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My aim is to make Community Server bigger than Dozing Dogs by, hmmmm, I'd like to say Sept 1st (my 1 year anniversary at Telligent ) but that's probably too optimistic. How about November 1st. I'm talking about my tags of course. Not surprisingly,
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Maggie 019 Originally uploaded by jamesandtara . Not really, but this is how whipped I felt after the CS 2.1 RTM went out. Here's Cody who can't resist a good snuggle. I was on IM and in Flickr with Rich Mercer who pointed out the "Blog This"
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Community Server 2.1 was released yesterday , but I didn't have the energy to blog about it. A night in front of the telly usually sounds better than it is in practice though, and the latest movie from Blockbuster Online, "Ultraviolet" was
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My first ever post on Community Server 2.1 ! I decided to use this new domain to allow me to setup CS independantly, writing a tool to migrate posts across from www.CoverYourASP.NET and generally get everything configured as I'd like. It still isn't
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..but I'm keeping the Google Toolbar , who just stepped it up a few notches by adding some very cool features. #1 on the list is the new bookmark feature. I love it and it's goodbye to del.icio.us' nasty shortcuts. I imported favorites from all my computers
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I uninstalled Google Desktop Search this morning, after using it since an early beta launch. I'm now trying Windows Desktop Search . I loved GDS, but over the last year it's gradually stopped working. One of the key requirements is to index my growing
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Community Server 2.1 RC1 is up there for download. Obviously it's the best release yet and it's I'm now officially an enthusiast. Yeah, I've worked at Telligent for almost a year now but only recently full-time on the CS team. It's
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" Three kids at 6:30 AM = utter chaos. " Pah. I'll take your 6:30 AM and raise you 30 minutes. Plus, it's the first day of school, a new school (literally), and my youngest's Birthday. Up, Wash, Dress, Breakfast, Presents. On the bus at 7 AM... .. ...but,
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Shout out to AspDotNetStoreFront who showed a lot of integrity in a recent transaction with a friend of mine. Private deal, no details will be published, etc. But suffice to say, Robert Brainard went above and beyond expectations. If you're looking for
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How cool is this? Field of Dreams is being screened in the field where the movie was originally shot. Being English, my love of baseball started with this movie. Man, I wish I could go.
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After yesterdays debacle it's time for a new FTP program. Perhaps the wireless connection was crappy, but I'm pretty sure you could write an FTP program with enough checks in it that it doesn't get "fooled" into uploading folders to a random space on
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