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Walmart Hates Firefox Users?

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Walmart has launched it’s movie download site, and labeled it Beta. How “Web 2.0″ of them. Apparently Walmart doesn’t like Firefox users. Here it is in Firefox 2.0, Windows XP: …and here it is in IE7, Windows XP: …and in Safari 2.0.4, Apple 10.4.8: Technorati Tags: Walmart, mediadownloads.walmart.com, Firefox

Installing .NET 3.0 Framework on Windows XP SP2

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Why would you want to do this? I’m not sureyet, but as an ASP.NET developer, I know I’m probably going to need to understand how to use it. The .NET Framework 3.0 adds new technologies to the .NET Framework 2.0, which makes the .NET Framework 3.0 a superset of the .NET Framework 2.0. You can [...]

Handling Google Maps API Keys with ASP.NET MasterPages and Web.config

Friday, December 8th, 2006

The Google Maps API requires you to generate a key that is tied to the URL where the map will be deployed. This can be inconvenient if the site exists in multiple places at the same time…as is the case in many development scenarios: Develop Test Deploy These three stages can also represent physical locations. [...]

Some of My Favorite Applications and Utilities

Friday, October 27th, 2006

I’ve been in a sharing mood lately. Continuing that theme…here are some more of my favorite things: Apple Headdress Allows you to host multiple sites on your local machine. It’s basically a GUI Apache config file editor. It also plays nice with MAMP. TextMate My current text editor of choice for PHP, HTML, CSS, and [...]

PHP Link Flood

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

My favorite PHP sites: 100% PHP PHP.net PHP-Scripts Blog PHP Developer Marco Tabini PHP Freaks Cake PHP CakePHP The Bakery CakePHP for Beginners H3RALD WithCake Occasional PHP Shaun Inman Snook There and Back Again Technorati Tags: php, links

How to Start a Web Business

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Ready To Start Your Own Business Evan Williams: How Odeo Screwed Up Actual Lessons from Kiko The Top Five Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When They Market The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups Ten Rules for Web Startups How to Shoot a Bullet Through Your Startup 5 Deadly Mistakes When Starting a Business Technorati Tags: startup, web2.0, [...]

Operating System Not Found

Friday, October 13th, 2006

My home PC (an ancient HP) running Windows XP Pro crashed today (again). I guess Visual Studio, Sql Management Studio, Internet Explorer and an install (updated Atlas Control Toolkit) were too much for the old girl! When I rebooted The following message displayed: Operating system not found I rebooted again and everything was normal. Unfortunately, [...]