I get asked this question a lot from friends and family, I’m sure we all do. It’s easy to explain to my geeky friends, not so easy to explain to my friends and family who aren’t so geeky. It usually goes something like this Me: “I work for Telligent Systems, we build community collaboration tools.” Them: <blank stare> Me: “We build forums, blogs, wikis, … that kind of stuff.” Them: <blank stare> Me: “Companies like Dell, Intel, Microsoft run our software for a lot of their customer community...
There are much longer more detailed ways involving editing the registry, running "devenv ..." command-line stuff, etc. This is by far the fastest and easiest way: 0.a. Make sure you have the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Framework installed. I'm a dummy and still had the Beta installed and was surprised when the project wouldn't build. Then I realized my blunder. 0.b. Close any open instances of Visual Studio 2008 1. Go to this URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/04/28/updated-nunit-templates-for...
There is a Nerd Dinner at Dewey’s Pizza in West Chester, OH tonight (June 12, 2009) at 6:30 PM . The organizers of the event intended it to be a: Gathering for those in town and those coming in town for the CINNUG ORM Firestarter at Dewey's Pizza, West Chester, OH I’m fairly certain we’re a little more all-inclusive than that and we will welcome anyone who would like to attend. If you meet any one or more of the following criteria you are welcome to join us for the fun and festivities: You are a...
My brother, Andy, and I began homebrewing beer in January of this year. We had been talking about taking up the hobby for years and finally made the leap. Since then we’ve brewed about seven 5-gallon batches of different styles. We’ve used ingredient kits from Brewer’s Best , Midwest , and one from a local company. We’ve been really pleased with the Brewer's Best and Midwest kits. One of our best and favorites (so far), a Russian Imperial Stout, was reviewed by Mr. Porch of BeerAndCigars.net about...
I’m still an inquisitive kid at heart. As soon as I bring home a new toy I spend a lot of time figuring out how it works, customizing it to my liking, adding things to it to make it better. My browsers have my favorite add-ons, extensions, and plug-ins installed (del.icio.us, Evernote, etc). I add memory, hard drives, etc. to my computers and laptops. There are few things that I own that are easily modified that are not modified. The surprising thing that I haven’t mucked with yet is my Windows Home...
I’ve been trying to convince myself over the last couple of weeks that I should write a blog post, but I truly feel that I have nothing worth sharing that couldn’t be put down in 140 characters or less (referring to Twitter/Facebook, of course). I’m sure you don’t really care about the minor yard work I’ve been doing or the hours I spend puttering around in the garage. Now that warm weather and sunshine have returned to my part of the world I’ve been spending more free time outside and as far away...
What wondrous specimen of perfection has the following ingredients list? Two (2) DiGiorno Cheese Stuffed Crust frozen pizzas Two (2) 12-oz packages of bacon One (1) egg One (1) pound of ground beef One (1) medium sized onion Two (2) cloves of garlic Approximately two (2) pounds of various shredded and sliced cheese The heavenly goodness that is The Bacon and Cheese Stuffed Pizza Burger , that’s what! (Warning: some advertisements on theChive.com could be considered as NSFW) I won’t cheat you by including...
I recently upgraded the look of the TwitterRatio site. The charcoal look was okay for starters but I wanted to make it look more Twitter-like, something that I’d noticed that a lot of other Twitter utility sites had been doing. In the process I created a Twitter-like logo and thought I’d share how it was done in case one of you loyal readers was wondering just how to make a Twitter-like logo for yourself. Additionally I thought it was about time to impress you once again with my less than adequate...
I needed a simple chart control. I briefly thought about the new ASP.NET Chart control , but that is .NET 3.5 and my current code base is still .NET 2.0. I probably could migrate the code to 3.5 painlessly enough, but “if it ain’t broke…”. I have some experience with amCharts , and they provide an option to use any of their products for freeda, with the only limitation being a small link to their web site being displayed in the top left corner of every chart. I had read about the Google Chart API...
For the last couple of months I’ve been using Eeebuntu Netbook Remix on my Asus eee PC 900. I’m a true blue Windows user and have been since Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS before that. But I’ve dabbled with various Linux versions over the years to keep up to date and to know enough to get around. Because of this I wasn’t too fearful of buying a netbook without Windows. I’d also done enough research prior that I knew what I was getting myself into. Eeebuntu was built specifically for the Asus eee netbooks...
This is part 6 in a series about building an Eco-Friendly Economical Windows Home Server. Part 1: In search of an Eco-Friendly Economical Home Server Part 2: In search of an Eco-Friendly Economical Home Server 2, Electric Boogaloo Part 3: A Cheap and Green Windows Home Server Part 4: Ordered parts for Eco-friendly Economical Windows Home Server Part 5: Can I get a Mulligan on the Case Order? Part 6: Adding a 1TB Drive to my WHS Last night I mentioned on Twitter that I was feeling a little nostalgic...
In my last post, Customizing Graffiti: Chalk GetQuerystringValue , I promised that I was brewing up a really good Graffiti example/tip that would combine a lot of the customizations that I’ve written about recently. Are you ready for this? This one will knock your socks off and it alone is worth the price of admission. It’s the Amazon aStore Chalk extension. No “oohs and ahhs” yet? Pessimists, huh? Just wait. Historically (if you can call 3 previous posts “historically”) I disclose the what, how...
My last Customizing Graffiti post was a simple little thing. This one is just as simple - the GetQuerystringValue Chalk extension. I had a need for pulling a value from the querystring recently and using it my view markup. I was sure that something to do that must exist in Graffiti, but I looked and looked through the Graffiti docs and forums and came up empty. What does it do? You use it to pull a value out of Querystring parameter. That’s it. I’ve found this to be really useful to pull in a querystring...
Continued Graffiti goodness. Here is another Graffiti customization - the GetAppSetting Chalk extension. I recently put this one together so I haven’t grown to love it as much as the RedirectIfSinglePost extension, but it is very handy to have around when you need it. What does it do? You use it to pull a AppSettings configuration value from your web.config file. I think Graffiti’s Custom Fields are great and I use them all the time, but I’ve found that sometimes I just need access to a custom value...
In my last post I promised a wealth of Graffiti posts would soon be flowing from my finger tips. Here is my first and probably my favorite Graffiti customization - the RedirectIfSinglePost Chalk extension. I have used this on every Graffiti site I've put together or toyed around with. What does it do? If you place a call to this Chalk extension at the top of your index.view page then if there is only one post in the category, search results, whatever, instead of just displaying that one post in the...
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