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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 …

Using Webmaster Tools to Optimize Your Site for Google

This is a GREAT video that shows you how to use Webmaster Tools to do Search Engine Optimization on your own website. Watching this is probably the best 10 minutes that a website owner can spend. Learn about: Signing up for message forwarding to get real-time emails from Google about your site Check out Search …

Google Apps is Changing

Google announced today the timing for what we consider to be a HUGE change for Google Apps customers (that we talked about on October 1st):  The consolidation of Google Apps accounts into the overall Google Accounts structure that control non-apps services (like Analytics, AdSense, Alerts, Reader, Earth, FeedBurner, Custom Search Engine, Checkout, Blogger). See the …