SearchDotNet.com
Dan Appleman takes the .NET focused custom search engine idea one step further by grabbing a great domain name for his search engine. Now why didn’t I think of that! Sometimes that’s all it takes between a search engine that will get used alot (his) and one that won’t (mine). I’d be happy to throw my support over to his, though I’m keeping my baby. The one key difference is I plan to leave my search engine open for others to contribute sites. Perhaps the two will complement each other.
Read MoreInsomniac Thought For Tonight
Having trouble sleeping lately. Thought I’d start an intermittent blog
series about the questions that keep me up at night.
Essential Subtext 1.9.2 Crib Notes
UPDATE: A bug was reported that blog posts could not be deleted. We have updated the release files with a fixed version. There’s also a quick and dirty workaround.
Read MoreIntegrate Your Custom Search Engine With The Browser
In response to question about integrating my custom search engine with the browser, Oran left a comment with a link to a post on how to implement searching your FogBugz database in your browser via the OpenSearch provider, which is supported by Firefox 2.0 and IE7.
Read MoreThe Viper Room And Soccer Woes
Last
night I went to the “World Famous Viper
Room”. Gotta respect that
their website makes sure to mention the World Famous part. I suppose
you’d have to have a real club inferiority complex to promote your club
as The In This Neighborhood Sorta Famous Viper Room.
My Very Own Search Engine
Google just launched a
neat build-your-own-search-engine
feature. You can choose sites that should be emphasized in the search
results, or even restrict search results to that list.
Mapping Drives Via Remote Desktop
The Misuse of the Space Shuttle Analogy
Jeff
Atwood
writes a great post about The Last Responsible
Moment.
Take a second to read it and come back here. I’ll wait.
Atlas Web Application Project Template
Dave (a Subtext developer) just blogged about a project template he created for creating Atlas applications using the Web Application Project (WAP). This is wicked useful for those of us who prefer Web Application Projects over Web Site Projects.
Read MoreArt of the Job Post
When I was a bright eyed bushy tailed senior in
college, I remember wading through
pages and pages of job ads in Jobtrak (which has since been absorbed
into Monster.com).
OriginUrl Supports Regular Expressions
In a recent post I
ranted
about how ASP.NET denies WebPermission
in Medium Trust. I also
mentioned that there may be some legitimate reasons to deny this
permission based on this hosting
guide.
Interesting Perf Lesson
Tyler, an old friend and an outstanding contractor for VelocIT recently wrote a post suggesting one would receive better performance by passing in an array of objects to the Microsoft Data Application Block methods rather than passing in an array of SqlParameter instances. He cited this article.
Read MoreWhy Oh Why Couldn't WebPermission Be Part Of Medium Trust?
This
is a bit of rant born out of some frustrations I have with ASP.NET. When
setting the trust level of an ASP.NET site, you have the following
options:
Metrics For Your Open Source Project
Steve Harman finds this gem of a site that generates interesting statistics and graphs for an open source website. Just point it to your code repository and let it go!
Read MoreRemote Desktop On A Non-Standard Port
For a project I worked on, we had an automated build server running CruiseControl.NET hosted in a virtual machine. We did the same thing for Subtext (project is dead).
Read MoreDogfooding My Blog
Just upgraded my blog to the latest version of Subtext in the Subversion 1.9 branch, not that you needed to know that. I just appreciate you letting me know if you run into problems leaving a comment and such by using my Contact page.
Read MoreCan't Sleep, Feeling Sick, So I Code
Weird how coding on Subtext relaxes me. For the past couple days I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather and getting worse. The weird part is that anytime I try and eat something, there’s a terrible after-taste. And no, it’s not my breathe. I couldn’t finish my pizza tonight. Pizza!
Read MoreTip For Managing Remote VMWare Server
Quick tip for you if you need to remotely connect to a server with VMWare Server installed in order to manage the virtual server.
Read MoreA Gotcha Identifying the User's IP Address
Recently I wrote a .NET based Akismet API
component
for Subtext. In
attempting to make as clean as interface as possible, I made the the
type of the property to store the commenter’s IP address of type
IPAddress
.
Structuring Unit Test Code
UPDATE: I’ve since supplemented this with another approach.
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