If you’ve been following my blog recently, you know I just switched from a mix of my old school home grown solution and the Microsoft ASP.NET welblogs to GraffitiCMS. One thing I started wondering was …. did I get all my traffic? This was pretty easy, because most of my old content is actually in…
A reader asks… When viewing the Solution pane in Visual Studio 2008, is there a way to display file sizes? Most of my web applications have files in the project besides ASPX and the like (i.e., SWF, GIF, JPG) all of which affect download times. I like to remind myself of file sizes, and I…
I have several offers to convert my Tech content into other languages. Currently, GraffitiCMS doesn’t support any internationalization. I hope this is on the radar. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
On the topic of outlining, there is a tiny sliver of space taken up in your left margin to show the outlining. This video shows you how to turn that on or off. Personally I don’t see a reason to turn it off – BUT – I’m sure there is one. LIke maybe certain editor…
The best part of my day over the last few months has been 15-20 minutes somewhere between 5am and 6:30am each morning. My wake up time depends on when baby Courtney decides to start rolling around in her crib. She used to cry when she woke up to get our attention; because she knows that…
Somewhere along the path of setting up my blog using GraffitiCMS, I found that you can enable gravatars in the comments. The sample code I picked up looked like this. $macros.gravatar($comment.Email, $comment.Username, $comment.IPAddress, "%{size =’60’}") and it was working great for me until today. I knew Rory had a gravatar setup, but it wasn’t rendering….
This has been driving me nuts for a few months, and I finally got to the bottom of it. I have Live search as my default in Internet Explorer 8. To be honest, I use both Live and Google on a regular basis, they both do great things for me. Anyway, if I search from…
Onlining,Onlining,Onlining. You know the little [+] in the left margin of your code in Visual Studio? That is called outlining, and if you click the [+] your code region will expand, and the icon changes to a [-]. Pretty straight forward. But did you know you can do all of this from the keyboard, without using…
This is well worth your time, Drew Douglass spends a few minutes creating a very detailed post about what’s new in jQuery. http://nettuts.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/everything-you-need-to-know-about-jquery-13/ This post (well he was already but …) puts Drew Douglas on the map. Great Job!