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Community Server - a brief synopsis of my experience setting up this site

As I mentioned before, this blog is actually just a small part of the entire site.  This “suite” of sites also encompasses my wife’s and children’s blogs as well that I gave to them (along with their own domain names) as Christmas presents.  I had…

Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp this Saturday

The Dayton .NET Developers Group and the Cincinnati .NET Users Group have teamed up to offer a day long event - Code Camp - this Saturday, January 21st at the Wingate Inn in West Chester. Looks to be a great event - hope to see you there. http://www…

Christmas Nerd Cred

I’m not really looking for props, but I thought I’d throw it out there.  My nerd street cred should skyrocket after this announcement: For Christmas I bought my wife and my children their own vanity URLs and set them up with their own blogs. In all…

Tip of the day When you get this message - "Unable to read configuration for Microsoft Internet Information Server" ...

when you are trying to install FrontPage (2002) Server Extensions to a web site running on IIS 6 … Make sure that the Microsoft Sharepoint Administration web site has not been stopped.

Where am I now?

I mentioned previously that I left Onlinefocus. Since I have been at my new place for over six weeks, I guess it’s time to share the information before you all croak from the anticipation.  (In all actuality, you two already know where I work, but…

Quiet for a while - for good reason.

Yes, I have been quiet for a while.  I was given notice a few days ago by my friend, Clark, that it was about time for me put up a post or two. Well, there is a reason I have been quiet.  Big news has been coming - at least big news for me. Today…

Working with DNN 3.0

Just finished up my first “real” project with DotNetNuke : http://www.gettingconnecteddc.org I have played around with it for a while for some internal stuff, but this is the first one I’ve actually built for a client. We traditionally build our…

Interesting news on the Microsoft Office front

http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/06/01/424085.aspx I think there are 2 points here that may affect us. Probably the coolest – word documents, xl spreadsheets and even powerpoint files will be stored as XML with the format being fully…

When a parent dies

I have this theory that from the time you can understand the concept of death you start preparing yourself for the day when a parent will pass away.  As the years go by and you get older and your parents get older you realize that day is closing in…

More RAM is always a good cure.

My workstation is a Dell 4600 that I got about this time last year.  It originally came seriously underpowered with only 256 MB of PC3200 DDR RAM so I immediately bought an additional 512 and have been running 768MB for the last year pretty well…