Monthly Archives: June 2008

Better Control over the ASP.NET Sitemap UI

I’m a fan of using ASP.NET’s web.sitemap feature, but I’m less impressed with the level of control that you have (rather, you DON’T have) over the menu controls that consume the web.sitemap datasource (http://www.BuyLifetime.com uses three menu controls that consume the same sitemap from MS Commerce Server 2007, which look 90% like what we want [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-24

new helpdesk policy: call the end-user with the status of their ticket once per week… 44 tickets times 5 mins per update: 1/2 day/week los # @overheard why is that line fuzzy? because it’s not a line, it’s a collection of pixels arranged in a line-like fashion in an image…. # Tweet

Irony: Extender for Windows Media Center Experience

Windows Media Center is an application that started life in Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) and now comes standard in Windows Vista Home Premium and above (excluding Business and Enterprise). Basically, you throw a big hard drive (RAID5, anyone?) and a TV-Tuner or two (I have 2 digital tuners, one analog tuner in mine) [...]

Firefox 3: First impressions

Today I braved the storm and downloaded Firefox 3 (final) as part of the World Record attempt. After a few hours of trying I was finally able to pull the 7.14MB W32/EN-US version from Mozilla’s ftp site. The install was very fast with one firewall prompt for access. Due to the number of downloads being [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-19

@mikedopp The cat was white, it was snowing, it ran out in front of me, I hit it, pulled over and cried while it died in my arms… # Tweet