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Last week, Microsoft released a new dashboard update for the Xbox 360. I don’t use mine for much except Dead Rising and Fight Night, so I never bothered to hook it up to live or anything like that. My options in doing so either involved running a length of cat5 downstairs through the […]

There’s a new site out there called Volity (as in frivolity, get it?), which has accomplished something very interesting for game designers. They’ve created an open source platform for hosting online multiplayer turn based games.
They seem to be focused primarily around the board game and card game model, sort of like yahoo and aol’s […]

Like good little microsoft junkies, we’ve been transitioning all of our development to .NET 2005, including using their new flagship IDE, VS.NET 2005. In our initial transition, we ran into huge headaches trying to import our old ASP.NET projects, particularly when heavily divided into namespaces. We eventually sorted all of these things out, […]

The site is all screwed up right now, I know. All of the plugins are disabled, and the configuration is all screwed up, but at least pages are loading again. Our web host installed phpsuexec on the server without telling anybody, which apparently breaks every single piece of code known to man. […]

For months, I’ve been bitching about how netflix doesn’t provide any sort of shuffle feature. I have almost 200 movies in my queue, most of which were added during drunken clickfests through suggested similar movies and stuff with the same actors. This really sucks, because I tend to get 14 movies in a […]

I’ve just set up Akismet, a SPAM filter for WordPress comments. I was getting hundreds of those annoying bastards a day, so I had mostly disabled comments last month. I’m turning them back on to give things a try with Akismet for a bit, so feel free to comment again. In fact, […]

I found a hack to fix Live+Press for WordPress 2.0. If you can see this in my LiveJournal, then it worked!

I figured out how to share cookieless session data accross ASP.NET applications today. Here’s a little background:
I’ve got a big client that is basically an umbrella for a number of different projects. Even though all of these projects are more or less seperate, their users are mostly the same. At one point, […]

We’ve got a project where we need to send a text file export to the user. Since it’s all stored in the database, the simplest way is just to dump the data from the page. Unfortunately, if it’s a knowe MIME type, like a text file or pdf, teh browser opens it internally. […]

Sometimes (who am I kidding, most of the time) when we install a new VS.NET instance on a dev box, we get this error:
Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.NET Web applications or services.
The proper way to solve this […]