»

[28 Sep 2009 | 0 Comments]

Video of the new Microsoft Courier; perhaps the ultimate tablet PC. [More]

Services »

[28 Sep 2009 | 0 Comments]

Google Sites API has been launched, breaking down one more barrier to accessing data housed in Google's cloud using third party tools and services. [More]

»

[23 Sep 2009 | 0 Comments]

When I’m looking for a new theme (outside of the ones available from the http://dotnetblogengine.net site), these are the places I go look: [More]

»

[21 Sep 2009 | 0 Comments]

So you’ve gotten the keys to your eCommerce storefront from your designers and developers, but what comes next? Well, this question will depend largely upon how much work was done by the aforementioned boffins and artists but we’ll take a stab at outlining the required steps before you go live. [More]

Headline, Photography »

[17 Sep 2009 | 0 Comments]

In case some of you have wondered, I haven’t been talking much about photography lately in my blog. Even though I’ve been heads down in programming lately, I’ve still been trying to keep up to date with my photo-instructional surfing. With great blogs like Strobist combined with Google Reader, this is fairly easy.

The Strobist blog has a great analysis of how this Florida-based photographer got this one-shot family portrait in without losing his hair. Check out the Night Shuttle blog entry at Strobist for the details. [More]

Featured »

[10 Sep 2009 | 1 Comments]

More on using Google Spreadsheets as a database for sites that don't have their own db. This example uses forms to collect the data and server-side scripting in PHP to collect and manipulate the form data before using curl to POST the data to the Google Spreadsheet form. [More]

»

[8 Sep 2009 | 0 Comments]

Android users, are you frustrated by lack of Google Voice support for NON-Gmail accounts? Well, worry no more as we'll explain after the jump this HUGE problem has been resolved! [More]

»

[1 Sep 2009 | 0 Comments]

You can use this link to do so: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en [More]

Headline, Software »

[1 Sep 2009 | 0 Comments]

I’m not sure if you knew this or not, but AspDotNetStorefront ML and ML/Express both use different default templates in the skin directory.

Recently, a new file has begun showing up in the shipping SKIN_1 folder called expressTemplate.ascx. I had kind of assumed that this file was a bare bones template, much like the standard “bare” skin that comes with many blog packages. And if you’ve been working with standard ML software like I have for years, you just automatically start modifying template.ascx to skin your sites. Well, we quickly found out this was wrong and it isn’t documented in the ASPDNSF manual either (at least not now). [More]