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Apr20

Gunnar Optiks (aka Sunglasses for Heavy Computer Users)

Lately, my eyes have been feeling a lot of strain after hours and hours of developing everyday which has also led to headaches. I didn’t used to have this problem but I guess age is finally catching up to me. After doing some research I realized tha ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-20-09 | 2 Comments | Link to this post

Jan31

Bypass Image Caching in Silverlight 2.0

Recently, I’ve been creating a simple Silverlight app to display a bunch of weather images because, living in Florida, it’s always good to know what kind weather might be coming your way. Basically, there are a number of public images I want to disp ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-31-09 | 2 Comments | Link to this post

Oct30

Windows 7 on an Asus EEE PC 901

A couple of weeks ago I got one of those tiny Asus EEE PCs which is in the new class of computers called netbooks. It’s pretty small and light but just large enough to be really useful as a laptop. Originally, it came loaded with Linux which I left ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-30-08 | 24 Comments | Link to this post

Oct28

Azure Development Lesson #1: Installing and Running the Samples

I started going through the Azure SDK and samples last night and got tripped up on a few issues. Here are some of the steps to get started with the basics of Azure development: 1. To get started, you'll need Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 and make sur ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-28-08 | 3 Comments | Link to this post

Oct04

app_offline.htm

Recently I came across a useful little feature of ASP.NET 2.0 that allows you to easily take a web site offline without writing any custom code, fiddling with app pools or cracking open IIS Manager. If you simply drop a file called app_offline.htm i ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-04-07 | 2 Comments | Link to this post

Oct04

CoolCommands

Having really gotten used to the Ctrl-mouse wheel functionality in Word and Firefox to easily change the font size, I was a little disappointed to see that Visual Studio 2005 doesn't support it. When projecting Visual Studio on my laptop it's annoyi ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-04-07 | 0 Comments | Link to this post

Jan29

XPath Tutorial

I don't use XPath nearly enough to remember all the syntax. So on those occasions when I need to use it I always refer to this online XPath Tutorial for a refresher. ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-29-07 | 0 Comments | Link to this post