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Archive for December, 2007

…or what I learned over the weekend

This entire saga starts Thursday morning. I was able to get about three hours of work in when I felt the need lo reboot my computer.

When my computer came back up, I found myself in “reduced functionality mode.” I didn’t even know what reduced functionality mode was until this happened to me Since I have to expect that you don’t either, I’ll explain.

RFM (not to be confused with RTFM. which I should have done when I got this computer) is a state you can end up in for one of several reasons which I’ll cover next.  You get a blank screen with a couple dialog boxes on them and no explorer interface.  You also get one hour before you are logged out.

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Yesterday DotNetNuke 4.8 was released.  You can checkout the full change log at http://support.dotnetnuke.com/project/ChangeLog.aspx?PROJID=2 but some of the more interesting bug fixes include: Read the rest of this entry »

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Today we finally put all the code we’ve been looking at for the last couple of weeks into practice and take a look at LINQ.  Today’s example will be relatively brief but once you understand the underlying parts, which we’ve covered already, there really isn’t much to actually using LINQ. Read the rest of this entry »

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Those silly kids still aren’t up and I’m still surfing the web.  Here’s another tool.  Javascript image manipulation.  My favorite is the reflection, but there are others there that you might like more.

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So, it’s Christmas morning, the kids are in bed and I’m using stumbleupon to see what’s out on the net when I stumbled onto this cool online tool that lets you upload an image and turns it into a favicon.

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BTW, for you young parents who didn’t get to read this until the day after Christmas because your kids got up first on Christmas morning, it does get better

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