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DirecTV Needs Staging and Testing by Jason N. Gaylord

As a software developer, you know that best practices recommend testing and even staging environments. Evidently, DirecTV lacks that or is really missing something. Sometime today, they released a software update that sent nearly all of their HD receivers...

Worldwide Developer Conference News by Jason N. Gaylord

If you're looking to pick up the latest happenings from the Worldwide Developer Conference, check out this: http://www.macrumorslive.com/

Force Your Web Site To Be IE8 Compatible by Jason N. Gaylord

Microsoft recognizes that it will be difficult to have all sites use the latest HTML and CSS specs that are found in IE8. To accommodate the web sites that cannot be converted at this time, they've created a work around. There are two options: a) you...

VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta Available Now by Jason N. Gaylord

Soma just posted that SP1 for VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 is available. The full blog post on his site is at http://snurl.com/28i1z .

Bad SQL Mistake For One Forum Goer by Jason N. Gaylord

This isn't funny, but it is. It should be a daily WTF. Wally just sent me this forum post where someone deleted a little more than anticipated. It sounds like this guy can be in quite a lot of trouble... http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx...

Copy Source As HTML in Visual Studio 2008 by Jason N. Gaylord

I needed Copy Source As HTML support in Visual Studio 2008. Luckily I came across this post today with a walk-through to set it up in VS 2008. I can't wait for Microsoft to get this into Visual Studio. Too bad there wasn't a Windows Live Writer add-on...

How To: Properly Reference A JavaScript File by Jason N. Gaylord

Wow. After 2 hours of pain and suffering, I ran into my own daily WTF. I had some script contained within a .js file in my web. Like many times before, I created a reference to the script in the header. However, the script would only work in the Internet...

MIX 08 Sessions by Jason N. Gaylord

I couldn't make the MIX this year, but I can easily catch up on the content. You can too by visiting http://sessions.visitmix.com/ .

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 - Websites that are Broken by Jason N. Gaylord

IE8 Beta 1 now forces CSS 2.1 along with other web standards (includes some early HTML 5 stuff too!). I'm creating a list of websites that seem to be broken by the browser. Feel free to leave a comment if you come across other sites. Here's what I found...

GoDaddy Denies My Using ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions by Jason N. Gaylord

I have a domain that I was going to use for a little while as I attempt to sell my home. I registered it with GoDaddy knowing they have .NET support. However, I should have read a little futher into the shared hosting specs. Apparently, GoDaddy only supports...
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