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Trying to open a file into VS 2005/2008 ... never works from Explorer
Thursday, December 20, 2007So I have a file on disk, web.config in this case, and I right click and pick 'open with | Visual Studio 2008' ... and I get this: Windows cannot find 'C:\projects\9\web.config'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. [OK] VS 2008 opens, but no file. If I then pick the file from File | Open it works fine... what the hell? As far as I can remember, this was true with VS 2005 and it has annoyed me every day... [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Xbox.com looks really boring without a flash plug-in :)
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I'm planning to get rid of setting our Theme in ASP.NET
Sunday, December 16, 2007The auto inclusion of all our CSS files has finally become too annoying. We'll still use the app_theme directory, as it is a handy way to store our stuff... but I'm really hoping to not set the theme, and to add the appropriate CSS for the situation (mobile vs desktop for example) while also combining our CSS files and 'minifying' them all through a simple 'css.ashx' style handler. This should make it easier to do that combining at run time, while leaving them nice and separate for debug and development purposes. We might still have it set in development [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Xbox.com Personalities answer a bunch of holiday questions
Thursday, December 13, 2007Trixie had all of us Xbox.com column writing folks answer a bunch of holiday themed questions recently, and I noticed tonight that the answers are all up on the site! Check out some interesting Q&A with Trixie, Major Nelson and others (including me, Xbox Dad). Xbox.com Personalities at the Holidays We asked the Xbox.com personalities to share some information on their holiday favorites. What did we learn? Egg nog, "A Christmas Story," and Dean Martin pwn. Plus Major Nelson is a Grinch. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Futurama the movie...
Thursday, December 13, 2007Just added this to my queue at Blockbuster: "Matt Groening's cult hit series Futurama takes its killer wit to DVD with this full length movie consisting of a brand new story with all new animation and the complete, original voice cast." [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Search Engine Optimization Tweaks over the long weekend
Saturday, November 24, 2007My team builds a fair number of community sites including Channel 8 (for Students), TechNet Edge (for IT Pros), Channel 10 (for enthusiasts, power users and gamers), Mix Online (for web developers and designers) and the original site... Channel 9 (aimed mostly at developers) ... and we've recently starting putting out sites on a new code base. One of the changes in that new code base was a move to an AJAX style interface for viewing lists of posts on the page. We like the way this works for paging through lists of entries, comments, etc... but we have known [read more...]Share this -
Thanksgiving day... and I'm surprisingly short on things to do...
Thursday, November 22, 2007Lots of plans for the weekend, lights to put up, some yard work... but today, my daughter is napping, my son is keeping himself very busy with a new remote control car that has a built in video camera (he is chasing the kitten around the family room)... I'm not quite 'free' enough to put in Mass Effect and try it out, but that will come later! [read more...]Share this -
Picked up Mass Effect today... built XML site maps instead of playing it :(
Wednesday, November 21, 2007I'm very excited about it... really! I just got distracted on http://sitemaps.org and ended up building a site map for this site... real brute force, just grabbed all the blog entries and tags and output the appropriate absolute paths into some objects that I then wrote out into an XML document. Same method wouldn't work on Channel 9 though, it has too many entries, so I'll need to move to a site map index with multiple sub site maps... now I just have to figure out how to divide the entries up (by tag, by type of content, by date?). [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Ice Cube talking about Silverlight...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007and the Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe feels the need to comment about it. Let me summarize. Ice Cube is involved in an Internet video project and has chosen to use Silverlight, and you can watch an interview with him about it in Silverlight. (on a side note, I decided not to include the video into my post, even though the instructions to do so are right there in the original blog entry, because it is set to auto-start when someone visits the page and I think that is just downright rude :) ) The post is interesting, [read more...]Share this -
More Xbox Dad articles, Viva Piñata Party Animals and Xbox Live
Wednesday, November 21, 2007I've obviously been busy, I never even posted a link to these articles here... I've written two new Xbox Dad article in the past few weeks, one all about Xbox Live (to coincide with the Xbox Live is Five event going on) and one that I wrote this week about Viva Piñata Party Animals. Viva Piñata Party is a great game, the 'party' nature of it means that it is quick to get started, even for non-gamers, and the quick little matches means that you can pick it up and play even if you only have a little bit of [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this
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