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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.
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, wi
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!
OK. I have a gripe! You guys know I’m not one usually to complain. This isn’t because I’m afraid to engage, it’s because I try to understand the other side. So I (sometimes too often) try to justify a reason that something I know is wrong, is still happening. Everything has a
Outlining is a very popular feature of Visual Studio. Outlining is the [+] sign you see in Visual Studio on the left margin that lets your collapse and expand code. What happens if you select 3 visual lines of code, and the middle line of code is actually a collapsed region? Watch this video to
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 i
Naturally you know drag and drop is supported in the designers, bringing in controls, and moving controls around the page. But did you know drag and drop also works for text? And [CTRL] drag = copy? Nice trick. Spend a minute watching this for the whole scoop. This work is licensed under a Creative
Selecting the current work is usually done with by double clicking the mouse on a current selection. This works for words, but not for whitespace. This video shows you the trick to select from the keyboard. [CTRL]+[SHIFT][W] – Select Current Word or Whitespace Block
