I could get used to this as my morning view after a wonderful night’s sleep in a big four poster bed.
A Rough Start, but Still Loving It
So, with short notice and good fortune, a chance arose this year for me to go back to New Orleans for Jazzfest after an extended absence. Also, owing to good fortune, this opportunity aligned with previously scheduled time off so as to allow me another of my grand road trips. Of course, you can’t have a good road trip without at least one good disaster. So far, this year it came in the form of a nasty sore throat which started early Sunday morning. It turned out to be a nasty case of Strep Throat. Thankfully, antibiotics still work and after after my first doctors visit in nine years, I was quickly on the mend.
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Oklahoma Floodwaters
We’ve been getting some descent flooding down here during this spring season. My friend Jason caught an interesting shot of some of the flood waters:
Seems like a dangerous drive to me.
Police State Toys
Apparently, toy maker Playmobil thinks there’s a burgeoning market in toys for a police state including this roadblock setup. According to the description, they have stop signs, maps and pistols. Of course, if they were really going to do this right, I think they need black cloth bags, zip cuffs and truncheons. Via Hit n’ Run.
Rollerblading Cops
The French have come up with a way to finally improve the self-esteem of all of those bicycle cops:
About 3,000 officers were deployed on motorcycles, in jogging gear and with inline roller skates [my emphasis].
Seeking Suggestions for Reading Web.Config
I recently had a task in one of my current projects that required me to extract the authentication mode of the current solution’s web.config file. The only was I figured out how to do it was by parsing the XML of the file by hand as shown below (Yeah, I know, it’s VB.NET. I do what the client wants.):
Dim config As New System.Xml.XmlDocument() config.Load(Server.MapPath(“Web.config”)) Dim authMode As System.Xml.XmlNode = config.SelectSingleNode("/configuration/system.web/authentication/@mode") Return authMode.Value
[Read More]Setting Control Focus in an Ajax Update Panel
I’ve decided to start posting the solutions I find in irritating little problems that take me forever to find. Some of these will probably be obvious, but hopefully it might save someone’s time. My current problem was that I had a DotNetNuke module that was sitting in a AJAX Update Panel. I needed to set the focus to a particular control based upon a post back click on a radio button. The standard focus() method didn’t work and neither did the old fashioned RegisterClientScriptBlock stuff with a provided JavaScript function. Turns out there is an extremely easy way to do this which is to use the ScriptManager SetFocus method using the base Page for the control as shown below:
[Read More]Amusing Quiz
Apparently, I only rate as a Slightly Dorky Nerd King via the Nerd 2.0 test. Slightly disappointing . . .
Web Standards in the Spotlight
Joel Sposky, in his usual highly amusing style, takes on the new IE 8 controversy and points out the enormous gulf between the standards world and the world the rest of us really work in. I often compare this difference to the difference between open-source and commercial software developers. There are those who say that it must be done the standard way and there are others that say it should be done to make it easy for the user. And the rest of us poor suckers live somewhere in between. My favorite quote from the article:
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