(This has been sitting in my Performancing extension for several weeks, so since I haven’t updated recently, might as well publish it.)I’ve just discovered that the regular expressions available through Find/Replace in VS.NET 2003 are not standard .NET/POSIX regular expressions. It seems curlies ({, }) specify tagged expressions. Unfortunately, this means one of the most [...]
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I just discovered Performancing, an extension that lets you post to your blog from right within Firefox. This solves one of my pet peeves: navigating to Typo’s admin interface to post, a journey requiring three clicks from the login page.Performancing lets you blog at any time during your surfing experience simply by hitting F8. It [...]
Business Plan Generator
18Nov05I’m almost certain this wouldn’t make a workable business, but I’ve been thinking for a while now that I should put a ‘business plan generator’ on my list of projects. It really pisses me off when I have a cool idea (typically in the shower) that I can’t wait to put on paper before I [...]
Web Calendars
17Nov05Web calendars are the social software of choice right now, it seems. There’s a nice round-up of the choices, including the more standard ones like AOL and Yahoo!, here. I finally got a login for CalendarHub, so I spent a few minutes this morning checking it out. Like Kiko, it’s a Ruby-on-Rails app. Kiko has [...]
AJAX zealotry, security
04Nov05There’s an interesting story in the Wall Street Journal about AJAX. The tone is wide-eyed and reveals the writer’s naivete, but it highlights some interesting things. VCs are clearly going ga-ga over AJAX apps, despite knowing they’re not going to completely replace the desktop. Equally importantly, startups’ core product quality is being overlooked in the quest for [...]
ASP .NET 2.0 and script.aculo.us
30Oct05I’m having an absolutely awesome dicking around with script.aculo.us. For those who don’t know, script.aculo.us is a fabulous Javascript library built on Prototype to add a lot of cool AJAX functionality. Prototype ispretty tightly bound to Ruby-on-Rails, and apparently script.aculo.us is meandering down that route too. Massive shame — it really is quite nice, and [...]
ASP.NET 2.0 name mangling
14Oct05Code mangling’s always been a problem with ASP .NET — the VS .NET 2002/2003 used to mangle the HTML badly when you switched between design and code views, and while that’s been fixed in VS .NET 2005 (aka, The-Shiznit-For-Web-Development-2005), there’s still the problem of element name mangling while rendering. So, for example, a FormView element [...]
Jeez, you know it’s time to get some sleep when it takes you 15 minutes (plus a reboot!) to figure out how to reference your SQL Server instance. I installed SQL Express on my machine and tried to connect with the machine name, localhost and several other choice words before finally trying zujitsu\sqlexpress, which did [...]
MSDN Subscriber downloads
28Aug05Oooh. Microsoft’s MSDN Subscriber website has been updated, with several cool features including an RSS feed that publishes new downloads as they become available. Nice. Firefox users need to download and install the Microsoft File Transfer Manager separately. I’m feeling pretty pissed off because I haven’t been able to get MSDN to move my US subscription [...]
Just a quick note — I’ve been working on a parallelized Windows build system, which farms the build out to one of several build servers. The actual compilation of code is done by MSVC6 right now (there’s been talk of moving to VS .NET 2003, but with 2005 coming out, there’s been less impetus to make [...]
Wow, this is priceless. I wrote the following in a previous post: ` File \”Z:\\Work\\trunk: ` The backticks are Markdown/Smartypants syntax for monospace font (such as that used to display code, eg. this is monospace). Anyway, apparently Typo/Rails didn’t like it, and gave me an ‘Application Error’, without explaining what the problem was. When I went digging through [...]
Django (part 2)
17Aug05Things are looking up so far, but minor points: 1) That after setting the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable, I still have to be in myproject/apps before I run django_admin.py startapp myapp. Why? That setting plus the Django install root should be enough to figure out where the myapp folder should be created. 2) It seems the django_admin.py install [...]
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