Archives / 2007 / December
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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 :)
Sunday, December 16, 2007Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
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
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