I like the Gates/Seinfeld ads

September 12, 2008
James Skemp

Maybe that makes me out of it, but I like the Microsoft commercials. No, they don't really tell me anything without digging, but they're just fun, and sometimes even funny. Granted, they don't bash anyone like the "I'm a Mac" commercials, but ... Keep doing them, and I'll keep watching 'em.

September 9, 2008
James Skemp

(Tongue firmly between teeth.) In today's world, what do you think the best way is to spend a day off? Survey says: ... Working at your second job. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle does just a little worse ...

September 4, 2008
James Skemp

When Microsoft released IE 7 they also offered an image / virtual hard drive that could be used to test Internet Explorer 7, without installing it on your machine. Good idea. While they're buried, Microsoft has released a number of other images, which expire in January '09. Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image Come on Microsoft, release some that don't expire, but that have some other limited functionality. For example, they can only be used for x hours before the machine must be rebooted.

September 1, 2008
James Skemp

A lot of people like to pull full passages from Waking Life, as it's a very quotable movie. However, the problem with that is that if things change there's a whole lot of sites that are out-of-date. And, sometimes people forget to add attribution ... I've been thinking about ways to make this easier, and believe I've come up with an idea. Looking at the numbers, I'm working from the most popular to the least popular chapters, with the goal of having all available.

August 31, 2008
James Skemp

The following is a list of links to posts regarding themes I have worked on for BlogEngine.NET, and that are available for use. (Themes I've worked on for others are not included here.) Listed alphabetically. MWRT-002 Download for BE.NET 1.4.5.0. Swan Dive Download for BE.NET 1.4.5.0. As I'm not a designer, I typically use open source designs, such as those from Open Source Web Design, Open Design Community, Open Web Design (please post a link if you know of more).

August 19, 2008
James Skemp

Recently I went ahead and installed Apache 2.2.9 to my Windows Vista Ultimate machine. The purpose of doing that was to move towards a Subversion install running on Apache. In this article, I'll be covering that installation. Getting Subversion Obviously, the first thing to do is to get Subversion. We're looking for the Windows Apache 2.2.x binaries, in particular. At the time of this writing, that's svn-win32-1.5.1.zip. In a previous guide, which you may have followed, I installed the Windows installer with the basic win32 binaries.

August 16, 2008
James Skemp

With the release of BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5 a bit ago ... it was time to give it another go upgrading. Quick notes on my experience: Downloaded and FTP'd the zip. Remoted into my VPS. Extracted the contents of the zip to another folder. Unchecked read-only on the extracted contents. Backed up my complete BlogEngine directory. I had issues with roles.xml not being accessible. For some reason I had to set the owner again .

August 16, 2008
James Skemp

I'll be updating this as I read, but the date/time of the post will remain the same. This will by no means make up for a reading of the book - Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5 (2nd Edition). (Link to my review will be posted once I finish the book.) I work primarily on the Web, so that will be my main focus from reading this book. Some chapters may not be present here, depending upon what I think is note-worthy at the time.

August 15, 2008
James Skemp

... has been the inclusion of Natalie Portman (side notes here and here) in the 'recent' movies. Enough said. Lucas, you fool ...

August 15, 2008
James Skemp

In this article I'll be covering an installation of Apache 2.2.9 to Windows Vista Ultimate. I'll be installing Apache so that you can run IIS as well (hence, Apache will be on a different port). You may want to do this if you want to run Subversion on Apache (as I do). Installing Apache 2.2 Currently the Apache HTTP Server has both a 2.0 and 2.2 version. For new development, the 2.

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