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12/7/2009 8:53 PM
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11/8/2009 10:40 PM
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By john on
10/8/2009 1:10 PM
 It is only somewhat known that ad servers and aggregators track your visits through many different web pages with third-party cookies. But just getting rid of your cookies periodically is not enough to guarantee your surfing habits aren't known: Adobe's Flash player (also active on many web pages) can also be used to track one person's browsing behavior across many sites.
Generally this...
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By john on
10/8/2009 11:32 AM
Here's Tim Sneath's helpful list of some cool new features for Windows 7. Of course a number aren't really new, but those were generally little known!
Also, from TechNet, are these handy Win 7 multi-monitor hot keys:
Win+Home: Clear all but the active window Win+Space: All windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window Win+Down arrow: Minimize the active window or restore the window if it's maximized Win+Left/Right arrows: Dock the active window to each side of the monitor Win+Shift+Left/Right arrows: If you've got dual monitors, this will move the active window to the adjacent monitor Win+T: Shift focus to and scroll through items on the taskbar Win+P: Adjust presentation settings for your display Win+(+/-):...
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By john on
10/8/2009 11:06 AM
It is always neat to learn about time savers and cool new utilities, but THERE ARE SO MANY! Fortunately, Scott Hanselman has compiled a useful list of the essential utilities to get some work done on a new computer and then also, for us developers, the cool dev tools of his choice, vetting them and listing just enough to decide if it is worth exploring.
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By john on
10/8/2009 10:24 AM
Microsoft's Developer Site is experimenting with a new look: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbpreview/ What do you think? (My initial reaction is that it is too distracting, sacrificing readability for cute/distracting graphics.)
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By john on
7/19/2009 2:59 PM
Interested in easily showing off code in your DNN blog — without writing custom CSS styles?
Solution 1: Use the numerous free plug-ins for Microsoft’s Live Writer:
My current favorite is Source Code Formatter from Amer Gerzic (listed in Live Writer as “Source Code…”) includes the most flexible options for custom colors, selected text and more and includes source code:
1: Imports DotNetNuke.Entities.Tabs
2: Namespace DotNetNuke.Common.Utilities
3: Partial Class SiteMap
4: Inherits Framework.PageBase
5: Const SITEMAP_PRIORITY As String = "0.5"
6: Const SITEMAP_MAXURLS As Integer...
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By john on
4/8/2009 12:45 PM
While the good folks making DotNetNuke my favorite web application framework have been busy improving the product, like most others, their documentation has languished far behind for several versions. While a new effort strives to remedy this oft-discussed situation, it reportedly faces "technical issues".
In the meantime, here are some resources to consider for (non-development) DotNetNuke documentation:
Use Google to search the DotNetNuke site - and especially their forums....
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By john on
4/8/2009 9:05 AM
There are times to hire a professional, especially for the more complex sites, but there are now a number of easy-to-use web site creation tools that do a good job for basic sites - for free!
While designers will use Adobe's Dreamweaver or Microsoft's Expression Web products for ultimate design control over their websites, experience shows you better have a big (time) budget if you want to create a site from scratch, much less to keep it maintained.
More efficient is to use one of the hundreds of Web Application Frameworks (many mislabeled as Content Management Systems) out there. See CMSMatrix.org or Wikipedia for the best listings of these I've seen. Joomla!,...
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By john on
12/11/2008 10:14 AM
It is simple: but only if you know where to go! (Try asking a new user to do this task and they could wind up with a few dozen other approaches - most that might not work.) For those of us not so familiar with the routine it helps to have it spelled out:
Go to Java SE Downloads and select Java SE Development Kit Documentation 6 to download jdk-6u11-docs.zip to a special place on your hard drive.  In the NetBeans IDE go to Tools | Java Platforms and in the resulting dialog, select...
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