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Quickly Map Manufacturers to Store in ASPDNSF Multi-Store solution

I’m sure you’ve been there before. You (or your customer) have gone in and added all your products and defined which products go with which stores but then decided after the fact that you want to have a manufacturer’s page (or menu) that shows all the manufacturers of products that  exist in a give store …

Running Asp.Net 4.0 Application on IIS6 under Asp.Net 2.0 Parent App

Phew, that title sure is a mouthful… but it is kinda hard to describe the problem in so few words. I had just finished the primary work on a new customer’s website (http://www.BuyMyBatteries.com) and was trying to hook up the latest and greatest build of BlogEngine.Net (2.5) underneath it for the corporate blog. The challenge, …

Stop YouTube Videos from Hiding Your Menus - Two Methods

Has putting YouTube videos on your website embarrassed you by being so bold as to insist on being in front of other elements on your website? This is a common problem seen across the Internet daily. However, just ‘cause main people suffer from this ailment doesn’t mean that you have to. The resolution to this …

Google Doc Discussions: Google Wave lite?

I among many others, mourned the loss of Wave. While it had many fantastic features, I think it was exactly this broad feature-set that caused it’s early demise. One of the features in Wave that I thought was a killer app was the ability to easily hold group discussions while collaborating on documents. Well today, …

Time Killing with Chrome

This Katamari game is a javascript implementation (interpretation?) of the Japanese video game Katamari Damacy which roughly translates to “clump spirit”. The point of the game, if there is a point, is to roll a sticky ball around and the more objects you pick up , the bigger the ball becomes and the bigger the …