Archives
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How to build 2D glasses
It’s the week-end, which is the perfect time for a
slightly off-topic post. It’s still engineering of sorts
though in that it provides what I think is an original
and cheap solution to a real problem.
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“Badgifying” an ASP.NET page
I apologize for the neologism. What I’m going to
demonstrate in this post is a technique I prototyped a
few months ago to make it very easy to embed an ASP.NET
page’s content in another page, even if it’s using
another server technology. This of course works
cross-domain.
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How I got attacked by Windows Update
I was writing a wiki page when it happened. The system restart dialog from Windows Update had been blinking helplessly in the task bar for a few hours as I didn’t have time for a reboot yet.
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Server-side resizing with WPF: now with JPG
I’ve shown before
how to generate thumbnails from ASP.NET server code
using the WPF media APIs
instead of GDI+ (which is unsupported when used in
server code).
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Search Engine Optimization got a lot easier
Dear readers, if you haven’t checked out the SEO Toolkit yet, you owe it to yourself to go there now, download it and start using it. Point it to your sites and it will explore them and give you a full report of all the little problems that are getting in the way of search engines.
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My video setup
As I’m in vacation, I thought I’d make a post on something different but still quite geeky. I really like to see how people set-up their video systems: there isn’t just one way to do it right and I can’t think of two friends of mine who have something even remotely similar. So I’ll describe my setting and invite you to drop me a comment and describe yours. I’ll also tag a few friends and ask them to describe theirs. I’ll post links here.