Archives
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New Skin, thanks to Jesse...
Jesse Ezell came up with a fairly clever way to add new styles to the .NET Weblogs without having access to the source code, by dint of a bit of javascript inserted in the news section that removes the stylesheets selected in configuration, and replaces it with a stylesheet specified by URL. Jesse's post on the subject includes instructions (in the comments) on how to take advantage of this technique.
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ASP.NET Community Starter Kit Version 1.0 Released!
It's official. The 1.0 release of the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit is now available on the ASP.NET Starter Kits main page! More information on changes from v0.5 to v1.0 is available here.
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Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there!
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Transferring properties to a thumbnail image
A while back, I created a simple console app for thumbnailing photos for posting on my family Web site. The application simply asks for a directory and a reduction percentage, then looks for any images in the directory provided and reduces them by the requested percentage.
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Seriously cool code
Found this at http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/ http://alladyn.art.pl/eng/clock.html
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Dr. GUI a compilation?
Julia writes:
via Chris Sells: MSDN's Dr. GUI, is now blogging. So I gotta figure out how that works. Dr. GUI is like a compilation of a bunch of MSDN folks, right? So who gets to do the blog? Is it a free for all? Well, I'm sure it will be fun, informative and full of all the silly puns we have become used to!
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More on running as non-admin
As folks who follow my blog already know, I've been trying to set a good example by running my main computer on a day-to-day basis with a plain vanilla user account, with no administrative privileges, in order to reduce the risk of providing elevated privileges to malicious code I might somehow accidentally run, as well as to ensure that any code I write installs and executes without requiring elevated privileges.
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Kent gets it...
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WMP/Winamp track stats in blogs
Mads Haugbø Nissen writes:
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Now running w.bloggar from non-admin account
All it took was copying the w.bloggar install directory to a directory in which the non-admin account has permissions. Again, not an ideal solution, especially since it demonstrates that the default install doesn't need to be the way it is, but I suppose I shouldn't complain too much about security in freeware. After all, you get what you pay for
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Request Validation Rant
No, it's not the rant you've seen already regarding what a pain it is that Microsoft enables this feature by default.
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More on w.bloggar...
Sure, both of those solutions would probably work...but only if you know enough to know why the software's failing in the first place. If you don't know that going in, how are you going to know to install to a different directory? And like the suggestions made by Drew, these are workarounds, not true solutions. As such, they really don't address the larger issue of getting developers to test their software and make it run without elevated privileges, and without having to resort to workarounds or hacks.
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New books released!
My new books, Microsoft® ASP.NET Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET Version 2003 Step By Step and Microsoft® ASP.NET Programming with Microsoft Visual C#® .NET Version 2003 Step By Step, have been released.
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Testing the WMP blog plug-in...
Seems to work pretty well, with one caveat. Since I'm running w.bloggar using Run As... and an admin account, I have to run WMP with the same credentials in order to get the plug-in to work.
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More on w.bloggar and admin permissions...
Now, Drew is correct about the fix. But this only highlights my point. Applications aren't supposed to write user data to the Program Files tree in the first place. That's what the user's folder under the Documents and Settings folder is for. If w.bloggar wrote to the user's MyDocuments folder instead (or to the Application Data or Local Settings folders under the user's root folder), there would be no need for loosening the permissions on the w.bloggar install directory or running as admin to get it to work right.
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Been out for a while...
As I'm guessing some of you might have noticed, I've been absent from the blog world for a while. As Julia pointed out, this is because a couple of weeks ago, my son was born. His name is Joseph Andrew, and as one would expect, he's been taking up quite a lot of his daddy's time and attention of late. So if my blog entries are a little few and far between for a while, now you know why. :-)
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First post from w.bloggar...
Writing this post from w.bloggar. Nice UI, and good features (I especially like being able to easily post links to a new window, which has been a pain until now), but it breaks one of my primary pet peeves these days...it must be run using an administrator account in order for it to function properly.