by patrick | Mar 2, 2009 | Rants
Letter to the Industry: “Don’t Print” isn’t “Going Green” Charlie Corr, Chief Strategist at Mimeo.com published this open letter to the Industry highlighting the “issues” we see with the challenges the printing industry...
by patrick | Feb 28, 2009 | TV
The Pilot (a fellow Purdue Grad) is a true American Hero. He was unbelievably calm and collected and the fact he landed the plane squarely and smoothly in the Hudson is amazing. If you have ever been to NYC and specifically the Intrepid, where he landed...
by patrick | Feb 26, 2009 | Personal
These are the new glasses I got. After almost seven years with my current pair, I decided do buy two new pair. The one one the left is an invisible type metal frame and the one on the right is a black plastic frame. I like the invisible one...
by patrick | Feb 26, 2009 | Coding, XML
XML Notepad 2007 is now my favorite XML editor. This thing is so simple but so cool. Makes editing and viewing the hierarchy of an XML file so easy. Even has find and replace, full namespace support, and even XML Diff support. The killer feature, if...
by patrick | Feb 25, 2009 | Personal
After installing BlogEngine.Net and really loving it. I decided to give Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer a try. This post has been written completely in WLW. I was able to add this picture and even add the title and sepia tone to it. Table Values One Two Three...
by patrick | Feb 25, 2009 | Personal
what’s wrong with this picture? What exactly is the point of this product if you have to look over your shoulder? I am sure someone said, why are we seeing the back of the girls head? So the designer got another photo of her looking back. Share...
by patrick | Feb 24, 2009 | Personal
Well, after a bit of fun, I have moved my website over to IIS 7 from Apache 2. Also, moved from WordPress to BlogEngine. Since I have moved all my personal and work development to ASP.NET, I figured it was time to move my website over. I think I have the major...
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...
