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Using Custom CSS Styles With Amazon Web Store
I have been slacking on my posts, but my second son was just born, I bought a house and I am working on 3 different teams plus other initiatives at my day job so hopefully you will excuse me, as I have myself. This is something I did awhile ago, but actually took some problem [...]
The Dragon, The Cross and The Forbidden Fruit: Using WampServer (Windows7 / Apache / MySQL behind PHP) with Komodo IDE, XDebug and PEAR
First of all, this was written in reference to WampServer 2.0i and Komodo IDE 5.2.4.37659, and the versions of Apache, PHP, MySQL and other components that come with those packages. Since these distributions change fairly rapidly, some or all of this may be invalid by the time you read through. However, the basic process of [...]
Posted in Development, PHP, WAMP, Web Tagged Apache, Komodo, MySQL, PEAR, PHP, phpMyAdmin, WAMP, XDebug 3 Comments
Silverlight 4 RC Dynamic Keyword Behavior Regressions
I have been looking around and can’t find any Release Notes or Known Issues for the SL4 RC release that came out at MIX10 a couple days ago, but our SL4 project was heavily using the dynamic keyword for Excel interop and upon testing out the new bits with it we noticed it didn’t work anymore. [...]
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Use any characters you want in your URLs with ASP.NET 4 and IIS 7!
After spending entirely too much time researching this issue today here is how you can use any characters you want for URLs in ASP.NET 4 and IIS 7. A bit of background: I am writing a web application that has a custom HttpModule and HttpHandler that should handle all requests and not limit the syntax [...]
Visual Studio 2010 RC Custom Tool for Code Generation + jQuery 1.4 w/ Intellisense for Script#
If you are like me, you probably just want the code, which you can find here: http://www.christophercrooker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/jQuery.1.4.v.0.2.zip Or, if you just want the binary DLL and XML doc file for referencing jQuery 1.4 from Script# projects, you can find that here (released under an “MIT license”, see sources for details): http://www.christophercrooker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/jQuery.1.4.dll_.v.0.2.zip.zip To open the solution [...]
PROCEX v0.1
PROCEX (PX), short for “Process X”, is an experimental software project execution process that intends to be compatible in any environment and require just enough overhead to ensure that all customers, responsible parties, team members, stakeholders and managers stay satisfied. The goal is for it to be prescriptive and simple, and short enough to fit [...]
WebScriptFX v0.1
This is my first crack at putting together several different technologies to create a framework for real-time asynchronous client applications downloaded as JavaScript and HTML. The goal is both to create a consistent toolkit for these types of Rich Internet Applications and also bring down the bar to only knowledge of HTML and CSS to [...]
Posted in Development, Web, WebScriptFX Tagged ASP.NET MVC 2, jQuery, RIA, Script#, Visual Studio Leave a comment
UriTemplate Formats
If you need to use a UriTemplate, for example when applying WebInvokeAttribute to a WCF OperationContract to create a “REST endpoint”, the formatting rules are here: MSDN: UriTemplate and UriTemplateTable
Version-Enabled Software Maintenance
As you may or may not notice, I have not posted for awhile. Unfortunately, this is what happens when you start working 7 days a week. On one hand I have been working on some cool stuff including Silverlight 3 and 4, NHibernate data models, Amazon SimpleDB powered social networking applications (MySpace, please fix your [...]
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