March 2008 - Posts
Rick Strahl: What can you keep in your Head? +1
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LOL, the best use yet for our awesome shared family calendar(s): the answer to the age-old question.. "What's for dinner, Mom?" Tara created a new shared calendar called Menu and added "all-day" appointments (just because they
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I was having loads of fun getting a "borrowed" web service running on the staging server yesterday. As with all code that you take without asking, there are always.. shall we say, "hiccups". Apparently every line in the web.config
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I came across some great quotes this evening from a business forum I recently joined..think about them. When you complain.. " 80% of the people don't care about your problems, and the other 20% are glad you have them " Another.. " People
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As I find them.. Gmail: I've seen 20-30 good emails caught in spam, so check it often while you train it. Since I don't want to check the same message twice, I mark the spam as read whenever I check it. Then, to check just the unread spam you
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The best ASP.NET CMS yet, our own Graffiti, is in the running for the asp.netPRO annual Readers Choice award . If you've played with it, you'll know why we're excited. Our old Dozing Dogs CMS came in second in it's first year in this event
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Newbie tip. This is good: if (error.Contains("Declined")).. Not so much: if (error.IndexOf("Declined") != -1).. Guess which seems to be more common in code P.S. Yes, I have old code with examples of the latter. Doesn't count.
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To copy your personal calendar to google, use their new synch tool ... ..and then uninstall it. It crashed my wife's Outlook 2003 almost every hour when it synched up, and I'm still finding strange entries in my Deleted Items folder in Outlook
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Dan asked me to post an update as I explore deeper into the Google forest. I'm now fully committed to Gmail and Google Calendar (why isn't it GCalendar?) and Outlook is now purely an evil tolerated for work purposes only. And with Rob Howard's
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This was interesting - I had a uniqueidentifier as an output parameter from a sproc and wanted to put it into a Guid. Guid guid = (Guid)sqlCmd.Parameters["@UserID"].Value; No. That throws System.InvalidCastException : Invalid cast from 'System.String'
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I'm quite looking forward to reviewing links between my sites and others, and applying XFN's rel="me", rel="friend" etc. Read more about XFN and check out this cool video from Google (via shoemoney).
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My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that. I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month
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Perhaps I should name 5 other people to modify this script when I'm done. First, it was Wyatt , then Jon , then Rich - and probably many others. Well, it's my turn dammit. I keep getting code from contractors that have _svn folders in them - and
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