So I had to work New Years Eve, but the family came into the city and we met up to go to the fireworks on the river. I don't know what had changed this year, but there seemed to be less of a focus on family activities. More stuff catering to the young and single. Now I'm not that ancient, but I'm not...
I got the 6 month contract extension. Hopefully the economy will pick up in that time and I'll be able to pick up something permanent here. I really love my job, so I'd really like to stay here. Fortunately the extension also gets me over the Xmas hump - it's becoming nigh-on impossible to find something at the moment. I'll probably look at...
Much to my disappointment I didn't get my contract extended at work, so I'm looking for a new position. It's quite difficult to find anything at the moment, with the global economy being in the toilet, employers are reluctant to take on new staff. I've got a glimmer of hope, in that there is a single extension available for another 6 months. I've...
I haven't written anything personal in a long time, mostly because I've just been too busy, but also because things have been in a lot of turmoil and it's been difficult to articulate everything. I'll have a go now. We've finally moved into our new home, and it's wonderful finally having a space to call your own again, not living in each others...
To hide default site templates available to the Template Picker when creating a new site, edit the WEBTEMP.XML file in the 12 Hive at web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\1033\XML. Change the parameters for Hidden from No to Yes for all the templates you want to hide. Then restart IIS from the command-line to reload the configuration file. The templates will now be hidden. Any tabs...
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BladeThis is probably one of the better minor- comic book movies. I thought this was very slickly done, with good effects, action, and characters. It's got some great black humor too.Plot Synopsis:Blade, a vampire-hybrid (with all of their strengths, but none of their weaknesses) hunts vampires around with globe with the help of his partner Whistler. He's hunting a group belonging to Deacon...
Well I don't know what to make off this one. I still don't think it was a good idea to go back and mess with the Original Series characters. It's not just the characters we love, it's the people that were those characters. And you can't go an recast Kirk, Spock, Bones, etc and have me love those characters. I'm not sure I...
The full trailer for Watchmen is finally released. I'm still excited to see the movie, but I think the previous trailer with the Smashing Pumpkin's song worked better. Still, can't wait to see the finished movie. It looks great! ...
Another great comic book film this year. Both this and the darker Dark Knight were very popular, and quite rightly so. This is a fun film, and although it suffers from the usual origin tale baggage, and a weaker third act, promises to become a highly entertaining series. The sequel should be even better now they can jump straight into the story. Hints...
This was a bit of fun. You can't really take it too seriously though. I mean hey, it's from the guy that did Fast and Furious, and that wasn't exactly sophisticated entertainment! But yeah effects are really good, got some good action, and Jessica Biel - rowr! Surprising that they chose to kill off one of the team members part way through, especially...
Took our visiting friend Bron and her kids to the Alma Park Zoo recently. Hadn't been there before. They were going to go to Australia Zoo, but dragging the kids around a massive zoo all day was not appealing, and it's quiet expensive, so we went here. It's a small zoo, but nicely set out in native bush. Fed the usual animals, kangaroos,...
Now it's starting to warm up again, they've slithered back into our lives. The ever repellant snakes are starting to return around the property again. So we have to be ever vigilant to avoid being bitten. Here's the latest whip snake. We found it come out from a hole under the house pad over the weekend. I went around the side of the...
There is a GUID generating utility bundled with Visual Studio. It is located in Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common 7/Tools/Bin/guidgen.exe. Run the tool and select the format of GUID you want generated. Click on Generate a New GUID, and then click Copy to Clipboard to transfer the GUID for pasting into your application's code. There is a GUID generating utility bundled with Visual Studio....
Beeb had Muster Day today where they assigned the kids to their teams. He got assigned to the Mets, but they've since changed the training time to an absolutely stupid 4 o'clock which we can't get too. I don't know what we're going to do now. I might have to see if we can move him to another team. There's no way we...
Change the extension on the file from .wsp to .cab, and the file will become a standard zip cabinet that will be recognized by any zip handling package. You will be able to view the packages contents and extract them. Change the extension on the file from .wsp to .cab, and the file will become a standard zip cabinet that will be recognized...
Open your web.config file. Locate the compilation parameters in system.web and replace them with the block below. Note the new line referring to the SPUrl expression. Also be aware that this only works with MOSS and not WSS, as WSS does not have access to the publishing DLL. For WSS you will need to path to your image/item rather than using the dynamic...
If you cannot edit code you may be working in Contributor Mode (should be visible along the top menu bar). To allow Code view in Contributor Mode, go into the Site Menu, choose Contributor Settings. Modify the Content Authors (default) profile. Click the check box that says Allow user of Code View. Click OK. You should now be able to edit your code....
Here's how to add your company logo so it is inherited across your sites.Browse to the top level of your site collection in the browser.From The Site Actions Menu, Select View All Site ContentSelect the Site Collection Images LibraryUpload your Company Logo (companylogo.gif) - If required, approve this image.Open SharePoint Designer 2007 and Select File, Open Site. Type the URL of the top...
Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequestsNormally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.Alter the entries as follows:Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like...
Use stsadm.exe to create a backup of the entire site.Open the command line and enter:"c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\bin\stsadm.exe" -o backup -url http://www-dev-19/ -filename c:\fullbackup -overwriteThe root SharePoint site at www-dev-19 is backed up in its entirety to a file on C:\ called fullbackup. The exported site generated a 411Mb file on C:\.Now go into your SharePoint Administration tool, and create a...
Saw an interesting article on Digg recommending time savers for building web sites. Here's a cut down version so I can remember to use some of these awesome tools in future projects.Drop Down Menus :: All Web Menus (http://www.likno.com/allwebmenusinfo.html )Image Capture :: Gadwin Printscreen (http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/)Batch Image Resizing :: Multiple Image Resizer .NET (http://www.multipleimageresizer.net/ )Web Forms :: My Contact Form (http://www.mycontactform.com)CSS Text Boxes ::...
If you are getting the message “The file you are attempting to save or retrieve has been blocked from this Web site by the server administrators.", Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 prevents certain file types from being uploaded to the server. Server administrators can add or remove file types from this list, as needed. Contact your server administrator to request that the file type...
Remote access into your Sharepoint server. Open command line access, and navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\bin.Run stsadm -o export -url http://<server name>/<server path>/<site name> -filename <path to export file> -includeusersecurity -versions 4Exports the site data to your output file. Creates a file with a .cmp extension.Then create the new site in the location you want in Sharepoint. Make a note...
Wow this film was amazing. Batman Begin's was awesome, and they've just refined, continued, and expanded upon it's universe for The Dark Knight. Hopefully they'll be able to keep the same high-standard and quality up for the next film (or possibly final film if it's intended to be a trilogy). Although it's a long film, it was never boring, and when there was...
To enable debugging, open the web.config file with notepad, that is located in the volume containing your Inetpub root. Eg:c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80\web.configSearch for the Callstack attribute. Change it from False to True.Then locate the CustomErrors element. Disable it.Check any web parts or controls are registered in the Safe Controls list.Finally, add a new element to the web.config file:<trace enabled="true" pageOutput="true" />Now you will receive the...
Beeb started little league baseball finally the other day. He had his first practice and they all were given some lessons batting, pitching, and playing the game. Some kids made some funny mistakes, running the wrong way or hitting the instructor in the groin with the ball, but overall they did well. Beeb is already trying to make new friends, and so far...
Windows Server 2003 ships with security locked down by default. Part of this locking is Internet Explorer Enhanced Security which provides an extra layer of protection when accessing the net using Internet Explorer.You can uninstall the entire Configuration, or just for users, or just for Administrators. The un-installer is set up like this:Enhanced Security->For Administrators->For UsersIf you have just random users connecting via...
I installed the frameworks and add-on's to Visual Studio 2005 v8.0.50.727.42 and found that all the items in my Toolbox disappeared and some items appeared more than once in other menus.Apparently if you right click on one of the toolbox control headings, (common controls for example) and select reset toolboxthen right click again and select show all...then they will be all displayed (with...
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Open command line window.Change to c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BinExecute sdkvars.batThen execute sn -k c:\.snkThe key file will be generated for attachment to your project. Right click on your project in Visual Studio and select Add Existing Item. Select the .snk file that you just created.Then right-click on your project again and select Properties. Navigate to the signing tab. Check Sign the Assembly...
Been busy with a lot of learning lately - just finished a week long course on developing for Sharepoint. That's one definite advantage with the new job - they don't mind sending me on training. So i've been installing Visual Studio 2005 and trying to get the SDK for Sharepoint installed so I can start writing some web parts for some ongoing projects...
My sidebar links were running out of control, so I decided to hook up a collapsible menu solution. A hunt around the internet turned up a nice javascript solution, but as usual I had endless trouble trying to get it to play nice with Blogger. For some reason Blogger's security model blocks some javascript from running in the site. Usually it's something as...
Little league's finally rolled around again. This time we signed up Beeb without hesitation. He was so excited he was up at 5 in the morning ready to go. We got all the gear and he's been sleeping with the catcher's mitt on because the club people told him it will soften the leather up. We've had a few practice sessions and he's...
Wow this looks really good. It looks like they've remained faithful to the graphic novel, and after the job Zach Snyder did on 300, I reckon this is going to be something pretty special. Check it out or get the trailer from Apple. ...
I watched the DVD of this the other night with my son. I think he enjoyed it, but it was a bit boring from an adult perspective. The story is very simplistic and you could pretty much see what was coming from the outset. All the funny bits are in the trailer, so no real surprises there. As a kids movie, it's successful,...
I finally got around to seeing this. First I wanted to see this when it came out, and my daughter begged me for weeks to take her, but it only ever ran after 9pm, once per day, and it just became too hard. Then I preordered the DVD, and a couple of weeks before it came out, I lost my job. So that...
