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Installing 32 bit software supplied with a .inf file on 64 bit Windows 25 Jul 2013 | 05:44 am
Back in the days before Windows had UAC and 64 bits it was possible to distribute simple software, such as the lossless video codec Huffyuv without an installer. All you needed was the dll and an .inf...
Godaddy and HTML5 Video 31 May 2013 | 06:37 pm
Godaddy's shared hosting control panel does not include a tool to change or add Mime Types, so out of the box, your hosted site will probably not be able to serve .webm, .ogg, .ogv, or .oga content. I...
Blog Engine Save Button not working on large post 10 Apr 2013 | 09:32 pm
I recently wrote a really long (about 20,000 words) blog post. I had been saving it periodically as I typed, but it suddenly reached a point where the Save button just didn't work anymore. Bringing up...
Export options missing from Adobe Media Encoder 9 Feb 2013 | 02:30 am
I installed the trial version of Adobe Media Encoder CS6 (Actually the whole CS6 Master Collection) just so that I could try exporting a video as a DPX image sequence. The installation took about 90 m...
Adding a Paypal Donate button to your Blogengine.Net blog or ASP.Net Page. 26 Oct 2012 | 07:43 pm
I recently had a request from a client to add a paypal donate button to their blog. So off I went to the Paypal site to get instructions for them on how to generate the button html for them to send to...
WINDOWS 7: Explorer Locks "thumbs.db" in most recently viewed folder 15 Mar 2012 | 06:48 am
Problem On windows 7, you navigate to a folder that contains images or video files that you have either added new content to or have simply never explored before, if you then back out of that folder ...
visualsvn server "'repositories' is not a valid short filename" 13 Mar 2012 | 07:45 am
Problem I had been trying to upgrade my standard edition Visual SVN Server for months now. Every time I received the email notification of a new version I would download the update, run it and the in...
Generic AddOrUpdate Extension for IDictionary (C#) 31 Aug 2011 | 03:54 am
I recently came across a situation where the properties of a class were adding the value to an internal dictionary of key value pairs which made it easy to loop through and return a JSON string. This ...
Printable HBO Game of Thrones Viewer's Guide 26 Jul 2011 | 09:10 am
Like many people, after thoroughly enjoying the first season of Game of Thrones on HBO, my wife and I started reading the books. Even with the show fresh in our minds, we found ourselves getting confu...
Moving Files in Visual Studio and SVN 26 May 2011 | 02:33 am
I'm writing this down because (1) I've had to figure it out a few times already and don't want to figure it out again, and (2) it may save you some snortin' and cussin' if you run across it yourself. ...
