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Hello World for Ruby on Rails
I’m just getting started with Rails so I went looking for a Hello World example. Eventually I came to this post. I’m going to go over the equivalent example using the RIDE-ME IDE. 1. Create a new...
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The requested operation requires elevation in Windows Vista
So I’ve been using Vista for a few weeks now and for whatever crazy reason I decided I needed to flush dns. I received this message: “The requested operation requires elevation”. Okay, to get around...
View ArticleDigg It button User Control for ASP.NET
I came across Tuggo’s excellent diggIT plugin for WordPress and thought it’d be cool to make an ASP.NET User Control that provides similar functionality. The control is really easy to use. Here’s the...
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Digg style custom paging for GridViews in ASP.NET
I’ve been on a bit of a digg kick lately and I like how they handle paging so I decided to create a GridView control that uses custom paging similar to digg’s. The algorithm is based on this post. As...
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I host my blog on the fantastic WordPress blog platform which typically runs on the LAMP stack. That means I can’t put up live demos of my .net posts so I created a new .net playground at...
View ArticleUsing the digg API in an ASP.NET Page
Digg released their API yesterday – I haven’t really done much with RESTful web services because in the .net world, most of the time SOAP/WSDL is used. I thought a very basic RESTful web service...
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Disable Blocked File Protection Control in Windows Vista
In my neverending quest to make Vista more usable, I finally caved and took the time to figure out how to disable Blocked File Protection Control. This “feature” requires you to unblock files you...
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Free (and not so free) Windows FTP Clients
SmartFTP started charging for their Windows FTP client so I decided to look for a suitable truly free replacement (not a lite version or one with nag screens) and FileZilla seems like the best option...
View ArticleGetting access to MSDN downloads with the Empower ISV program
Ok, so like 99% of my blog entries are about things not working quite the way I think they should and here’s another example. When linking your Passport account to your MSDN Subscription you’re asked...
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Bulletproof Ajax with ASP.NET MVC
After reading the excellent Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith, I thought porting the Bulletproof Books sample application to ASP.NET MVC would be a great first attempt at building an ASP.NET MVC...
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