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…
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!
Most Silverlight examples are about the User Interface. XAML here, and video there, pretty this, and shaded that. But this post today on SilverlightShow.net is different. They use the isolated storage of silverlight to act as a Client-Side cache for ASP.NET drop down lists. A great blog post, that is very well planned and executed….
As you probably know, I run the AZGroups.com. It’s a simple calendar page, that shows what’s happening with technology user groups around the valley. It should be a single place to see what technology events are happening. Support your local community and user group by participating. This morning, I’m sitting here in Phoenix (the 6th…
From the February AZGroups Calendar … Enterprise Library is a framework and collection of reusable components that allows developers to focus on delivering applications and less on building the plumbing. Enterprise Library was initially developed by Avanade and licensed to Microsoft and while it has evolved over the years, the core components and blocks remain…
I just installed my 3rd version of Windows7 (this time into a VPC Image) and I remember hearing online that there was a problem with Win7 running in VirtualPC2007. Something about the Virtual Machine Additions causing a blue screen on startup. A quick search found this post, and in the comments I noticed the solution….
Tonight (Jan 13, 2008 5:30-8pm) at the Arizona.net User Group, I’ll be presenting AJAX client templates currently available in the ASP.NET v4 Preview hosted on CodePlex. Below is a quick code sample to wet your appetite. C# / Service – Not really relevant to the call, but it’s where the data comes from 1: [WebMethod]…
I’m not sure if this is the only way – but I just figured out that Posts are displayed by a published date, which is not necessarily the order you enter them. If you’re posts aren’t in the order you want them – look into modifying the published date.