I just spent about 30 minutes fighting with Visual Studio 2008 and JQuery 1.3.2 trying to get Intellisense working in a separate javascript file.  First I followed the Scott Gu post but must have missed the part about adding the ///reference tag.  I found the answer on StackOverflow.com but ran into a problem updating the JQuery intellisense (CTRL + Shift + J).  It said "Warning 1 Error updating JScript IntelliSense: ***** Object doesn't support this property o... [More]

I run into this all the time and keep needing to Google for it, so I may as well document it here.  If you need to test a site with https during development, you need to use the IIS 6 Resource Kit to generate a self signed certificate.  No sense in repeating the steps here when this excellent post shows all the steps. Notes:  The IIS site id can be found using the following commmand:  execute iisweb.vbs /query "<NAME OF THE WEBSITE>"

I struggle to find examples that work within VB.net (forced into it at my job) since 90% of them are presented in C# (since probably 90% of all mvc development is in c# :) ).  Today I struggled for a few minutes to come up with the correct syntax for restricting the properties to bind when passing a model to an action.  Here’s a code example: 1: <AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)> _ 2: Function Create(<Bind(Include:="Username,Email,City,State,Zipcode&q... [More]

I have never encountered this before until today.  Today while working in my VM, I hit the R key in a notepad window and suddenly the windows run prompt popped up.  Next and E brought up the windows explorer window.  WFT???  Closing the terminal and reopening did not help.  Apparently locking your physical machine in the VM by pressing the CTRL + L key combo can cause this.  The solution:  minimize the terminal session and press the ctrl or windows key 6-12 tim... [More]

It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything about my back problems, probably because it’s been so long since it has bothered me.  I would characterize the spinal fusion surgery I had 2 years ago as a huge success (with some limitations). History I had a 360 Spinal Fusion, aka Posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF/TLIF), done 2 years ago tomorrow (5/14/2007).  I’ve written about my history before, here and here and I did a quick update after my surgery to describe my situat... [More]

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Yesterday I was cleaning up some websites on my machine and I accidentally deleted the Default Website that is automatically installed with any IIS machine.  I right clicked, choose delete and flew past the warning dialog before I knew what hit me.  Not thinking it was a big deal at the time, I went upon my way without worrying about it. This morning, I tried to open up a Visual Studio 2008 project with a web site project pointing to localhost:8079.  Right away, a popup exclaimed... [More]

My GoogleTalk client is sitting in the taskbar right now taking up 30% cpu.  Strange.

Sometimes it's just the little things that make my day.  With clients inquiring more about good SEO practices, it's becoming more important to make sure all of your http redirects issue a 301 (permanent) instead of a 302 (temporary) unless your redirect truly is temporary!  In ASP.Net, if you do a Response.Redirect, the engine will emit a 302 back to the browser.  Just pop it up in Fiddler and see.  To force it to send a 301, you need to use code like this: &n... [More]

Thanks to firefox_answers for pointing out that Firefox 3 crashes with Windows on Godaddy are problems with the Silverlight plugin.  Disable or uninstall the plugin to remove the problem.