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I added a facebook like button to a few sites last night, and then noticed something curious - big horizontal scroll bars that weren't there before. It turns out that the Facebook javascript inserts some buggy code into the fb-root div - it creates
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I have to write this down, it is totally bizarre. A colleague come to me to ask why F5 wouldnt build his project any more. Sure enough, pressing F5 showed the File/Open dialog, but Debug/Start on the menu worked perfectly. The green arrow toolbar button
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Here at my current gig at Lamps Plus I've been hearing more and more about ReSharper , and a couple days ago my license key arrived via email. Hard to believe it's been out since 2004 and I have never even seen it before, but I guess you don't
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First, an aside: Just one blog post since leaving Telligent? wow. Even more surprising, how many times a day do you think I check Google Reader now? Never. In fact, I don't remember the last time I checked "the feeds I'm really interested
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I recently moved my sites to Windows 2008 server and although I am repressing the memory of the pain and suffering caused by my lack of knowledge of IIS7 (assuming it really is me, not IIS7 that makes some simple tasks so much harder), after it was all
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaah. There must have been an automatic update last night, I came in this morning to a signin screen and the computer was booting from scratch. Of course, I immediately turned around and went for coffee; it's not a quick process. On my return,
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I started Telligent as a PM, then went into product, then moved to the Microsoft-specific "sites" team where I wrote and maintained the http://silverlight.net site. But that ended last week as the sites team transitioned onto other projects
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I've always loved Lightbox - it just looks so cool. I've used it to "popup" larger versions of images on a few sites, but only today did I notice that it causes a security warning in IE7. Unfortunately, this isn't highlighted as
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I was a little surprised that someone I talked to last night hadn't heard of this amazing service, and even more surprised that I hadn't blogged about this before. If you have a router at home - and surely most of my audience does - you need to
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Quick shout out to Peter-Paul Koch at QuirksMode.org for his very nice javascript browser detection script. Clever, and definately deserved more than a tweet.
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After developing for *cough* some time it's not often that I come across a new style of URL that I've never even heard of before. A few days ago I saw a forum post about a 404 message someone got about their geotrust smartseal badge. I followed
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Until today I have been reviewing my gmail spam folder each day or so, and marking all new spam as read when I've reviewed it. Most of the time that works ok, but I've noticed that there are times when I get spam with a presumably deliberately
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First, always keep the wrapping, even the little twisty ties that keep the wires tidy. Keep the paperwork and the CD's - and I try to open the tamper-proof stickers with a sharp knife so that I don't rip the paperwork. I'm getting very good
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Rick Strahl: What can you keep in your Head? +1
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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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