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Pimp your MySpace Profile

Chris Hammond — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:19:00 GMT

If you're looking to pimp your myspace profile click here.

Just another blog post to help out another project

CommunityServer is coming! CommunityServer is coming!

Chris Hammond — Thu, 18 May 2006 12:50:00 GMT

CommunityServer is coming! CommunityServer is coming! It'll be interesting to see if this change sparks new life into weblogs.asp.net! Here's to seeing it revived.

My XBox360 is going to start blogging!

Chris Hammond — Mon, 01 May 2006 20:24:00 GMT

That's right, my xbox360 is going to start blogging!

When it does it'll be available at

http://www.360voice.com/blog.asp?tag=christoc

I think it may take a day or two for my 360 to know it can blog, we'll see what it comes up with for it's first post! Your 360 can get it's own blog at www.360voice.com as well.

New Job Posting Blog over at BlogJobs.org

Chris Hammond — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:06:00 GMT

Well, time for another "venture" for me. I came across the domain blogjobs.org a few months back with the grand intentions of starting up another project. Well, 2 months later I finally get started on it! So check it out, www.blogjobs.org is going to be a site for tracking down jobs posted in various blogs across the web. In the future we'll add some more searching options to the site so it's easier to find content by location, for now though we'll just be adding content as fast as we can!

We're running on CommunityServer 2.0 again, easy to setup the blog and be rolling in just a brief time. As content is added we'll also probably develop a custom skin that lends more to the type of site we're trying to provide.

SQL Server 2005 SP1 Release

Chris Hammond — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:08:00 GMT

Wow, this was a quick release, glad to see MS on the ball here for getting a SP out for 2k5 so quickly.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sanchan/archive/2006/04/19/579074.aspx

- Learn about the new features and improvements included in SP1

A ton of new features have been added and a lot of improvements have been made in SP1 for SQL Server 2005.

You can learn more about it at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916940/

- Bugs fixed in SP1

Refer to KB 913090 (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=913090) for the list of bugs that were fixed in SP1.

Note that not ALL bugs that were fixed in SP1 have an associated KB article yet. As pointed out in this KB, you can expect to see more KBs on bugs that were fixed in SP1 in the future.

- Download SP1

You can download SP1 for SQL Server 2005 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913089/

Note that there is a separate version for SQL Server Express.

Asp.net 2.0 Providers code released for use!

Chris Hammond — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:35:00 GMT

Check out the great announcement from Scott Guthrie about the asp.net provider source code!

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/13/442772.aspx

Some of the sample access providers are in C# requiring you to Note: You will need Visual C# Express to compile this starter kit before using it with Visual Web Developer Express.

DNN4 at TechEd 2006 BOF Session

Chris Hammond — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:15:00 GMT

There's only a few days left to vote for the DNN BOF Session at TechEd 2006. Be sure to get your votes in!

https://www.msteched.com/cfp/bofvoting.aspx

RSS for Ebay Searches

Chris Hammond — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:57:00 GMT

I was just thinking the other day that I wish Ebay had RSS support for their searches!

Good news!

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200603.shtml#2006-03-20091242

On my way to Mix it up for 06

Chris Hammond — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:39:00 GMT

I'm off to go mix it up today! Am I going to Mix 06? No, not hardly. I'm heading out in a few minutes to go get all of my safety equipment for my road racing school this weekend. I have to pick up my driver's suit, gloves, underwear, socks, balaclava, and everything else required to keep me from burning alive in case of an accident!

Would I like to be at Mix 06? Sure, but we had way too much going on at work to take off the week and head out to Vegas, though that would have been a cool work getaway!

Community Server Tweaks, Latest Posts

Chris Hammond — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:57:00 GMT

Community Server can be a pretty powerful tool if you take your time to setup a decent site for your users.

Here are a few tweaks I've made to SCCAForums.com to make it a bit more user friendly.

On the home page there are sections for active, unanswer, and my posts(if logged in). These controls don't provide much information to the user though, by default only a link and portion of the subject of a forum post.

On SCCA Forums I've setup the controls to display the user who made the last post, link directly to the last post rather than the first post, and also display and link to the particular forum that the post was made in.

To do this you need to add the following script to your default.aspx page.

int getPageNumber(int replies)
{
  int page = 1;
  if (replies > 14)
  {
   page = 1 + replies /15;
  }
  return page;
}
</script>

You also need to change the ItemTemplate section of the ThreadRepeater controls to look like the following

More tweaks to come.

Wow time to move things down a bit. Backwards compatibility update?

Chris Hammond — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:25:00 GMT

So this post is really just for one reason, to move some of the junk down, below the fold as they would say.

To do that effectively though, I need a good topic!

Perhaps I should talk about a little pet peeve? It's been over two months since MS put out an update for the Xbox 360 to update backwards compatibility? What's taking so long? I want to pick up the latest racing game, Toca Race Driver 3, so that I can practice for my upcoming drivers school and first club race at Gateway International Raceway, in Madison, Illinois.

But of course TOCA RD 3 is only available on Xbox, not the 360, and of course from what I read you can't play it on a 360 yet. So, Microsoft, when's the next backwards compatability update? I'm waiting!

As for my upcoming school and race, it'll be fun, I've yet to do any club racing, strictly autocross for the past 5 or 6 years now. I'm looking forward to the challenge, but not the increase in costs that come along with club racing. Just to do what the school and two races I'm easily going to eclipse my autocross budget for 2006, which includes 25 nights out of town at either National Tour, Pro Solo, or divisional events.

Hmmmm hope this worked! :)

Upgraded to CommunityServer 2.0

Chris Hammond — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:21:00 GMT

I've now updated all of my community server based websites to 2.0.

www.sccaforums.com

www.solo2.org

www.stlequestrian.com

and the latest upgrade (last night) www.chrishammond.com

I've still got quite a bit of skinning to do on stlequestrian.com, and hope to implement a calendar on both stlequestrian.com and sccaforums.com later this weekend.

ASP.NET 2.0 Cookieless Session problems

Chris Hammond — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:52:00 GMT

Has anyone had any problems with using Cookieless sessions in asp.net 2.0 and forms authentication? We're testing an app using cookieless=useuri and though it puts a session id in the URL, if you turn cookies off on a browser forms authentication appears not to work.

Has anyone seen this on 2.0 before and perhaps know of a work around?

DotNetNuke Wiki Module Project looking for Developers

Chris Hammond — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:04:00 GMT

We are looking for Team Members for the DNN Wiki Module Project. If you have the following let us know!

1. C# development experience
2. DNN Module Development experience.
3. Ready to get down and dirty with Wiki!

Send me an email at chris.hammond dotnetnuke.com with your qualifications and DNN Experience.

CES Keynote

Chris Hammond — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:14:00 GMT

So far I'm not impressed with the CES keynote. I guess I'm just more of a give me something cool now developer instead of a dangle it out in front of me kind of guy.

Update: Directv and MS Windows Media Center Partnership announced.

That is going to rock!

Update 2: HD DVD recorder available in march for $499

update 3: Xbox360 update coming shortly!

update 4: third manufacturering partner announced for the 360.

update 5: external HD DVD announced for xbox 360