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How to forward AIM to Gmail

Still have an old AIM email address lying around and would like to forward it to Gmail? Seems AIM does not have the option to forward mail to another email address but you can import all of your AIM emails ...

Upgrading Sharepoint MOSS 2007 Farm to Sharepoint 2010 "waiting t...

My first inplace upgrade of a MOSS 2007 farm to sharepoint went pretty smooth. I read the preupgrade documentation and was comfortable with the steps. Since it was a fairly new installation of Moss changes ...

Lessons Building KeyRef (a .NET developer learning Rails)

Just because I like to build things, and I like to learn, I have been working on a keyboard shortcut reference site. I am using this as an opportunity to improve my ruby and rails skills. The first few ...

Microsoft Tag Tagged Me

I got EXTREMELY lucky last week and won an HP Mini 311 notebook from a Microsoft Tag Twitter contest. I did my required tweet to enter last Tuesday, and one hour later received notification that I had ...

Make Your Menu Item Highlighted

When I was working on the TalentOn project (Promotion in MSDN Chinese) I was asked to implement a functionality that makes the top menu items highlighted when the currently viewing page was in that section. ...

.NET CoffeeScript Handler

After more time than I care to admit I have finally released a rudimentary Http Handler for serving compiled CoffeeScript from Asp.Net applications. It was a long and painful road but I am glad to finally ...

Visual WebGui's XAML based programming for web developers

While ASP.NET provides an event base approach it is completely dismissed when working with AJAX and the richness of the server is lost and replaced with JavaScript programming and couple with a very high ...

A .NET Developers day with the iPad.

The Apple iPad is currently getting a lot of buzz because of the app store, the book store and of course iTunes. I had the chance to play with one and this is what I have learned about the device. Let’s ...

NHibernate tutorial #6 - Parent-Child Relationships

I've finally had a chance to continue my NHibernate tutorial series after a series of vacations and events. In this tutorial, I cover one of the most common relationships, that of the parent-child, in ...

RoundhousE now supports Oracle, SQL2000

RoundhousE, the database migration software that is based on sql scripts has added support for Oracle and SQL 2000. There have also been numerous other little things, including better logging and a script ...

Funny Captcha

I like this capture because it reminds me of the ‘England Prevails’ dialog from V for Vendetta ...

Powershell STA watin

Wow, two posts on the same day. I was working on a quick DLL project to do some web scripting using the awsome power of Watin. In the past I use to create a vbscript as the test handler to call the DLL ...

Less is more: The making of a 37 signals style pizza

For years now we have been hearing from 37 signals that the way to bake a great web app is to build less – well the same is true of pizza. Our western hedonism has led us to pursue ever cheesier and more ...

MOSS 2007 – WCM Blank WebPart Page Zone ID’s

Here is the list of Zone ID’s for the Blank WebPart Page (BlankWebPartPage.aspx") that is part of the Publishing Portal with MOSS 2007: TitleBar Header TopLeftRow TopRightRow CenterLeftColumn CenterColumn ...

5 Ways Android Still Disappoints (Me)

Let me make this clear: I'm annoyed with Apple. I don't like their current policies and I don't like where Steve Jobs is taking the company. In general, I don't like it when any one company gets too much ...

Caching of toolbar names in ArcMap

For little GUI-changes in own ArcMap-customizations normally it is enough to start the application and look that every entry is visible. Especially for refactoring of an own toolbar it was still enough ...

PrairieDevCon – Slide Decks

PrairieDevCon 2010 was an awesome time. Learned a lot, and had some amazing conversations. You guys even managed to convince me that NoSQL databases might actually be useful after all. For those interested ...

Why is my laptop so sluggish? Or Damn You Facebook and Twitter! ...

In the past three weeks, I've noticed that my laptop (dual core 2.1GHz, 2Gb RAM) has become amazingly sluggish. I only uses for communications and data lookup workflows, so the slowness was tolerable. ...

Contract Work - Lessons Learned

I thought I would write a post of a different nature today, but still relevant to the tech world. I do a lot of contract jobs myself and really enjoy it. It's nice to keep jumping from project to project, ...

Windows CE: Newsgroups Shutdown

As of June 1, 2010 many of the Windows CE newsgroups have been shut down by Microsoft, and the rest will be shut down by October 1, 2010. This is part of an overall Microsoft strategy to move community ...

Finite Numbers and ExplorerCanvas

I was working on my online mathematical graphing application, CloudGraph, and trying to make it work in IE. The app uses the HTML5 canvas element to draw graphs. Since IE doesn't support canvas yet I use ...

Going to TechEd 2010 North America - WP7 Enterprise - TechEd 2010...

After years of one night community and volunteering tasks; and even running cool events like ]inbetween[ weekend, I finally get to go to the actual event! And this time it’s not in Orlando – it’s in New ...

Death March

It is a horrible sight to watch a project fail. There are few things as bad. Watching a project fail regardless of the reason is almost like sitting in a room with a "Dementor" from Harry Potter. It will ...

TechEd 2010 Schedule and Twitter Tool

If you’re going to TechEd 2010* (North America), be sure to check out the TechEd 2010 Schedule and Twitter Tool. If you have a mobile device (Windows Mobile 6.5, Android, iPhone), a tablet (Windows 7, ...

Win7 is not a tablet OS, no matter what the boys in Redmond think...

Despite what execs at Microsoft think, Windows 7 is NOT a tablet OS. Just because you can install some software (or OS) on a device, doesn't mean that device is meant to run that software. This seems to ...

Search engine optimization Links

Below there are a few links, that I used for my Search engine optimization research for PrintPagesOnline site. : http://websearch.about.com/... Keyword Selection Guidelines ...

How to reproject a shapefile from WGS 84 to Spherical/Web Mercato...

Definitions: You will need to know the meaning of these terms below. I have given a small description to the acronyms but you can google and know more about them. #1:WGS-84- World Geodetic Systems (1984)- ...

What's New in ASP.NET 4

The .NET Framework version 4 includes enhancements for ASP.NET 4 in targeted areas. Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express also include enhancements and new features for improved ...

Refactoring an ERB Template to Haml

ERB is the default view templating system used by Ruby on Rails. Haml is an alternative templating system that uses whitespace to represent document structure. The example from the haml website shows the ...

Powershell variables to string

I'm new to powershell. I'm trying to write an error handler to wrap around my script. Part of the error handler is dumping out some variable settings. I spent a while trying to do this and couldn't google ...

Running Teamsite User Admin tool IWUSERADM.exe from ASP.NET

It has really been a head scratching task for me. I 've tried many options but nothing worked. Finally I found a workaround on google to achive this by TaskScheduler. PROBLEM When we run Teamsite user ...

Letter to Ballmer: Making Better Consumer Devices

Last year, I wrote Steve Ballmer an email, and he was kind enough to write me back. The email contained a scan of a column I wrote praising Microsoft’s BI strategy. His reply contained three simple words: ...

Tools and Utilities for the .NET Developer

You can reach this page anytime at http://tools.michaelcrump.net Thanks to everyone that has contributed so far, we are getting several thousands hits from all sorts of developers a day. Recent Contributors ...

AJAX Control Toolkit - Incompatibility with HTMLEditor and Update...

Unfortunately HTMLEditor component of AJAX Control Toolkit is not compatible with the UpdatePanel. The problem is when we use accents with the Mozilla Firefox browser and HTMLEditor is inside an UpdatePanel. ...

C # - a variable using the Encrypt md5

When we are dealing with more sensitive data and important as a keyword, it is not appropriate at all stores them in database without encrypting for security reasons. For this we use MD5 MD5 is an algorithm ...

AJAX Control Toolkit - Globalization (Language)

For those who use AjaxToolKit controls presenting a language-dependent data (the CalendarExternder with the names of the months and weeks, for example) you can change the language to be presented in a ...

ASP.NET Chart Control - During a PostBack

To use the Chart control from a PostBack is necessary to modify the ChartImg.axd HttpHandler, otherwise we'll get the error message: Error executing child request for ChartImg.axd In Web.Config search ...

My Latest Hare-Brained Scheme

I have not had a significant side project for a while but I have been working on a product idea. Its an analytics application that analyses twitter data and reports on market sentiment. The target market ...

SyncToBlog #12 Windows Azure and Cloud Links

Some more “syncing to paper” :) Steve Marx wrote a very interesting article about using Hosted Web Core in an Azure Worker Role. Hosted Web Core is a new feature in IIS 7 that enables developers to create ...

Own an iPad, iPhone, or Touch? Add GWB to your Home

I know it is goofy to geek out about such things, but I am a pretty goofy geek. Today we published support for the Apple icons for devices like the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Now when you add Geekswithblogs.net ...

New Bing Maps

Normally I don't stray too far from Programming and TFS on my blog posts but I'm just really impressed with how much Silverlight has improved Bing maps. I use to be big on MapQuest, then hopped over to ...

Thoughts on exception handling.

Was working on a windows form app (something I haven't done in a while), adding threading and logging so that it would work a little more smoothly and have a record of who did what. I was just about at ...

Does HTML 5 Make “Rich vs. Reach” a False Choice?

The competition between the Web and proprietary rich platforms, including Windows, Mac OS, iPhone/iPad, Adobe’s Flash/AIR and Microsoft’s Silverlight, is not new. But with the emergence of HTML 5 and imminent ...

Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2010 -- #865

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Mike Snow(-2-), Justin Angel(-2-), Jeremy Likness, and David Kelley. Shoutout: Erik Mork and crew have their latest up: Silverlight Week – Silverlight Android? From SilverlightCream.com: ...

BizTalk 2009 - Error when Testing Map with Flat File Source Schem...

I have recently been creating some flat file schemas using the BizTalk Server 2009 Flat File Schema Wizard. I have then been mapping these flat file schemas to a "normal" xml schema format. I have not ...

Silverlight Cream for May 18, 2010 -- #864

In this Issue: Jesse Liberty, Chris Koenig, Kyle McClellan, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Tim Heuer, and Jonathan van de Veen. Shoutout: René Schulte has posted a SLARToolkit Beginner's Guide Erik Mork and the ...

Resize Image thru Slider in Silverlight

Hello Guys, I've been playing with slider on silverlight. Now the result is this, a simple resizing image thru slider. The Image below is the default size of my sample. And the second Image below are the ...

Eris Update to 2.1 – No Problems

I updated my Eris to Android’s 2.1 OS last night and everything went pretty well. I had wanted to update the phone mainly for two reasons. The first was to have the Navigation feature of the Google Maps ...

Informative Websites to follow...

Great Websites for everyday tips and tricks http://www.lifehack.org/ - Tips & Tricks to hack your life. http://www.lifehacker.com/ - Great tips and tricks for life and computers http://www.nirmaltv.com/ ...

Office 2010 Professional Plus (Top 10 reasons to upgrade)

Being a huge nerd, I decided that I would go ahead and upgrade to the latest and greatest office. That being, Office 2010 Professional Plus. The biggest concern that I had was loosing all my mail settings ...