Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

This morning I came across these two links, which amount to etiquitte lessons for Linux bigots (don't jump down my throat, the links say that). I thought it was pretty cool that at least SOME people see how their “Linux is the answer to everything, period.” crap does more harm than good. Here's a sample:

My friends over at Cyberakt have released a new version of ASPnetMenu. This is by far my favorite menu control, and they've worked for a few months now to make it even better.

Neowin: Microsoft as a legal piñata is getting old.

Chances are that you've used one of his controls before. His website lists nearly 30 different server controls that do everything from an emulation of the WinForms UpDown control to finding new ways to subclass the <asp:HyperLink> control. I'm pretty sure the only one that knows more about server controls is Nikhil Kothari.

Well, here we are: the moment three or four people have been waiting for. Interscape's secret employee is.....

A few days ago, I saw a post from someone about DropLoad.com, a website that lets you leave files for people, and gives them a 48 hour window to download it. It's done in PHP, but what the heck, it's a great system. I hope they add some reporting features and what not... I'd gladly pay a monthly fee to use it. I'm using it to distribute the source code for Interscape's products when they are purchased. What a killer idea!! Thanks DropLoad!

I was working on more upgrades to LonghornBlogs.com tonight, and decided to post a fix for the OPML.aspx bug that I blogged about earlier. This one is an ASPX page that uses inline script instead of a compiled class to do its dirty work. Just tate the “.txt“ off the end of the file name, and drop it into your .Text root folder, and you're golden until the next drop.

I was just setting up a new blog site to start working on a global admin console for .Text (adding, editing, deleting blogs, sending bulk e-mails to blog owners, configuring blog groups, etc) when I came across a problem. Though I had set up FrontPage Extensions on that virtual web, VS.NET could not connect to it. When I RDC'd into the desktop to try to access the site's FPSE page, I got an ASP.NET error page, telling me that the FPSE DLL was not found.

I'll give hyperlink space on Interscape's blog site, a shoutout in my blog here (major GoogleJuice), and a Enterprise Edition of ScrollingGrid to anyone who can fashion me a .Text skin for our corporate blogs that looks similar to our corporate site, only way better than the pitiful attempt I made. Must use .Text 0.95 skins, be clean, and visually appealing, while retaining an Interscape “feel” (doesn't need to be a carbon-copy of the home page).