by patrick | Jan 18, 2009 | Software
Well, first attempt was on my Thinkpad w500 and that failed hard. But it appears it was probably because of the switchable graphics card. I installed the beta on my mac mini, which is the media center computer, and it works well. Faster, but boot camp...
by patrick | Nov 13, 2008 | Coding, Software
I tried installing WordPress 2.6.3 on my dev Windows 2008 server running IIS 7 and .Net 3.5sp1 and could not get it working. I went back to 2.6.0 of wordpress which installed just fine and then did the upgrade to 2.6.3 which worked. No idea why it didn’t...
by patrick | Nov 7, 2008 | ASP.NET, C#, Coding
So today’s challenge was to display the Title, Meta description and meta tags on a site I am currently working on for troubleshooting and SEO reasons. The solution I came up with was to place the following code in the code behind of the masterpage. protected...
by patrick | Nov 4, 2008 | C#, Coding, WPF
Today’s challenge was fun. I had added a bunch of textboxes and labels to a Grid with 2 StackPanel in my code behind. StackPanel sp1 = new StackPanel(); StackPanel sp2 = new StackPanel(); Grid g = new Grid(); ColumnDefinition colDef1 = new ColumnDefinition...
by patrick | Nov 1, 2008 | C#, Coding, CSV, LINQ
This may sound stupid, but I wanted to store some text parsing I was doing for some VDP projects in LINQ to XML XDocuments. So, I created the following:XDocument recs = new XDocument();XElement records1 = new XElement(“Records”);XElement record1 = new...
