Monthly Archives: December 2009

Firefox Ubiquity Command for StackOverflow

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Dann

Just made a quick and dirty Ubiquity command for StackOverflow searches. Download from GitHub:  Ubiquity StackOverflow Search  Don’t know Ubiquity? It’s like a Command Line for the web but… it’s really cool! Trust me. Watch the clip below. Sure it … Continue reading →

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Is Firefox using all your CPU? It’s probably Adobe Flash

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Dann

  But how do you fix it? The weird thing is that to fix it, you install another program: Adobe Shockwave Don’t know how or why, but it fixes the high CPU usage where Firefox sits at 99% or 100% … Continue reading →

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Godaddy Hosting – Medium Trust vs Inversion of Control

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Dann

Whatever I think of Godaddy, they haven’t caused me too much pain yet, just minor inconvenience. This time it’s my precious StructureMap. StructureMap, I like it and alot of people do, but it just won’t work under Medium Trust! So … Continue reading →

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NHibernate, IoC and removing that damn Log4Net dependency

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Dann

Ok, so Log4Net is not that bad. It is a very good logging system, etc… So how do you perform IoC with the NHibernate logger? Well, you can’t. Unless you are ready to HACK CODE. That’s the brilliant thing about … Continue reading →

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Global.asax Events and Descriptions

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Dann

This is a direct quote from the Wikipedia page on Global.asax. Just thought it would be nice to a quick list to refer to. Application_Init Fires when the application initializes for the first time. Application_Start Fires the first time an … Continue reading →

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Do you want France’s SFR neufbox in English?

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Dann

  I had some time trying to work out the details on the ol’ neufbox, so here is a hint for getting it to be in English which makes life easier for non-francophones: Hold down the green button on top … Continue reading →

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Asp.Net MVC 2 Action Results

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Dann

A handy list of ActionResult’s that I found on StackOverflow thanks to Chris.S and his reference to the MSDN doc. ContentResult Writes a string value directly into the HTTP response. EmptyResult Does not write to the HTTP response. FileContentResult Takes … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Intro to Prism

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Dann

I stumbled across this excellent written / video tutorial with source when starting out in my Prism adventure. Prism for Silverlight – Silver Bay Labs I think this is the best starting out example I have found. It still requires … Continue reading →

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Finding Prism/CAG is all but easy to find

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Dann

After trying for a while to figure out how it all sort of works and what I was actually looking for, I found this page at Sparkling Client – Downloading Prism. Once you get there, there is a 10 step … Continue reading →

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