Enabling a Pre-existing Project as a WebRole in Azure Solution
In trying to use an existing VS2008 Project as a WebRole in a Windows Azure Solution, I discovered that the project did not appear as a candidate for...
Video for BlackBerry Curve 8310 on ATT
The only thing missing from my BlackBerry Curve 8310 (service with AT&T) has been video. It did not make much sense since there is a 2MP camera on...
XHTML-Compliant Technique for Passing Parameters to Javascript Script Files
Joe Brinkman posted a technique to pass parameters to Javascript script files. The approach is simple -- append a standard querystring to the script URL and obtain the...
NSF Website on Birth of Internet
Om Malik posted about the NSF website chronicling the birth of the Internet. What a cool site. I skimmed it briefly and found this entry for 1980s:In the...
Some Thoughts on Posterous
I have been thinking on and off about Posterous since I first used it and decided to put my thoughts down in a post. Nischal asked the question...
Updating ASP.NET Assemblies
I posted a comment on Rick Strahl's post on Server Errors when updating live Web applications online about a technique to update assemblies of live apps. I use...
Exploring New Things
Last month, a few days before my birthday, I decided that I needed to acquire some new skills and do some new things, while broadening my knowledge of...
iWidgets déjà vu
At the height of the dot-com boom, I founded a venture-funded startup called iWidgets.com. My vision was to have mini-apps called "widgets" that you could plug into web...
AppEngine Video Site
I have been learning how to create apps for Google AppEngine, relying mostly on videos. I figured other people might be interested in the same thing so I...
How to Foil Blog Content Harvesters
On the LinkedInBloggers group, there is an interesting discussion on how to prevent blog harvesting. Turning off RSS feeds and subscription feeds seemed to be the suggested solution....