was doing some research recently on generating screenshots of web pages using an ASP.NET page and found a link to a post on DotNetClassic.com that appears to disappeared into the ether… So here it is if you need it! [More]

v1.0.1.1 of the InfusionSoftDotNet library has been released to support functions and changes related to the Spring 2012 release of InfusionSoft API as well as the latest CookComputing dll (v2.5.0) to handle the XMLRPC communications. [More]

Using a class provided by Chris on stackoverlow, I finally found a quick and dirty way to download data to a CSV file locally. By adding the attached class file, I was able to easily add a button to a report page, that when pressed, will load the each line of the CsvExport object into a byte[] suitable for quick and dirty downloads. [More]

Have you run into this problem? In Quickbooks Point of Sale v10 (or in various versions of Quickbook proper it appears) you might change over to the Shipping Manager and when you try and print you get the following error: Printer Not found: ::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\::{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}\HP Laser Check out the post for the quickest solution to this problem. [More]

--> Try explaining rich snippets to some not totally versed in Internet technology and you’ll be lucky if all you get back is a blank stare. The following infographic does a great job of explaining what they are, and more importantly, what their benefit is to just about anyone with a website. Visual Guide to Rich Snippets on SEOmoz created by BlueGlass Interactive

If you are running an ecommerce store that relies on real-time rate lookups from the U.S. Postal Service then hopefully you are already aware of this looming deadline (March 31, 2012) and have made arrangements to prevent this from crippling your business. If you are running AspDotNetStorefront (our favorite ecommerce package) AND you rely on USPS as one of your Real Time Shipping lookups, you will need to know that you need to be running v8.0.1.4 or v9.1.1.0 of this fabulous package in order to be safe from this problem. You’ll be able to confirm the version of your website by looking the left column of the admin control panel: If you are running a store that is v8.0.1.2 or earlier, or if you are running a version that is between v9.0.0.0 and v9.0.1.3 you will need to either contact ASPDNSF about upgrading, talk to your developer about what can be done to patch the problem on your site OR switch to using UPS, FEDEX or some other carrier for your Real Time lookup needs.

As of 3.3.1 (and possibly earlier) when you set a WordPress Page (not Post mind you but Page) to Private, it has the undesirable affect of hiding the page from everyone but the creator of the Page. The preferred way to pull a page off the site temporarily would be to change it’s status back to Draft rather than setting the Visibility to Private. I suppose if you were the only writer of the site and using the admin login, it wouldn’t be so much of a problem but if you don’t log in as admin, or are not the creator of the page, you’ll effectively be locked out of administering this page in the admin section even if your user has administrative level on the site. You’ll still be able to visit the site while logged in but you can’t set it back from Private without going into the database and making the change OR logging in as the creator of the Page. So, if you are one of many people administering a site using WordPress as the CMS, please don’t “hide” pages using Private unless you are fully aware of what this actually does. Is this a bug or a feature? I’d say the former since you can view the page as an administrative user but you can’t see it in the admin section of site nor can you administer it. Have you run into this behavior before?

Or perhaps it was just a rogue programmer? Either way, this was my laugh to start a crappy Monday off on a better foot:

Integrating rel="author" and rel="me" into blog pages on WordPress can be very simple, if you know all the steps. The article by Joost de Valk takes you most of the way there but I'm going to offer up some additional tidbits to "close the circle" so to speak. [More]

Sure, they have an extremely large 3rd party/open source community behind them but wow, is this software backward in terms of usability and manageability. I'm doing some work on http://www.forcefieldmagnets.com/ and this is like working with Wordpress software from 3-5 years ago. [More]