May 2007 Entries
Ok, so I broke down and enlisted in Facebook. There is a catch though! Actually two! First and foremost, I just had to let my wife link to who she is married to, and second, I\m thinking up ideas how to work Facebook into a SuperOffice DevNet article. There are a dozen ideas, and when I get a few minutes I'll write and code it out to share with the community.
I'm sure there are others that are thinking the same thing, so if so, give me a poke and we can build it together!
I came across kris' blog entry about installing the asp.net Membership tables in a database you define. This is not about creating the standard ASPNETDB database, but creating a sql script that installs the Membership tables, triggers, stored procedures, the whole lot, into a database you define! This is a great tip that certainly alleviates me from having to deploy a completely seperate database just to manange users information.
Essentially it breaks down to this line:
aspnet_regsql.exe -E -S localhost -d MyPersonalDatabase -A all -sqlexportonly c:\membership.sql
As most probably already know, aspnet_regsql.exe is found in (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\)
Kris has more about setting up the connection...
DevNet is currently looking at implementing a blog. The blog will mostly cover announcements, interesting SDK tidbits, and whatever else the DevNet team can share. The idea of having one is a little overdue, but hey, better late than never! Well actually, it will probably be online later rather than sooner, but when it does come online, it will be for the communities benefit and thats always a good thing. Look for it in the hopefully not too distant future on DevNet.
I'll be holding a SuperOffice SDK training in Olso, Norway on June 25th. For those of you interested in learning more about this ins and outs of the SuperOffice SDK's, register on the DevNet site.
StyleSpead is a sweet little jewel that surpasses any other CSS utility I've ever used! Take a look, its well worth the investment!
In the document 'Hardware Support and Directions for Microsoft Windows Server', Microsoft states that Windows Server Longhorn will be the last 32 bit server operating system.
Well, thats not too bad, eh? 32-bit has been with us ever since WIndows 95. So, if Microsoft maintains a 3-5 year span for Server OS's (2000 to 2003 to 2008), this means somewhere between 2010 and 2013 is purely for 64 bit processing.
Death To 32 bit processing! Long live 64 bits!
The creator of NStub, Jeremy Jarrell (sometimes referred to his blog handle: Digital Blasphemy), has just announce that NStub Beta 2 has been released. Unfortunately, he also says that that will not be any more effort going into that project. Thats too bad because its a cool idea! Expecially for lazy-ass programmers! Then again, it does kind of go against the point of TDD - write tests first, then code. Oh well... :-(
For those people who don't like to mess around with interpreted-language sites (e.g based on php, python, perl, etc), and have a desire to host a .Net project-based, subversion-friendly site, you need to check out SharpForge.
Its no TRAC, thats for sure! However, the project and site have been around for awhile, and more and more effort going into it makes it a worthwhile option for managing small to medium-sized projects. Expecially if you prefer .Net.
Interesting features include:
Multi Portal
Multi Project
Subversion Administration
Work Item Tracking
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So there I was, strolling along minding my own SharePoint custom Membership Provider business, when all of a sudden I ran across some information (issue???) about Client Integration and persistent cookies. Then there was more information about cookie timeouts, and what a hassle it is to recover from the timeout on a machine with a default machine key in the machine.config file. THEN, there was a link to a microsoft article that describes the process to create new keys for use in Forms Authentication. So, I thought to myself, "Self, feels like a good time to write a simple windows form application to...
Windows Installer XML (WiX), an open source initiative, looks like its the best solution to automate installation program builds (MSI files) without the need for Visual Studio. This is great news for those using an Continuous Integration (CI) environment. For those few that read this, you may have read my previous post about my CI setup. WiX, I think, is going to nicely fit in there!
Here are a couple links to get started:
The WiX site on sourceforge.
A good overview and thorough tutorial how to use WiX.
I'll eventually blog about my WiX experiences, but first I'll have to convert one of my current projects...
Automation is a wonderful thing!
I recently got my CI environment up and running on my personal development machine. I've installed and configured the usual suspects: CruiseControl.Net, NAnt, MSBuild, NUnit, and Subversion.
One this I see a lot of people talk about is installing Apache to host a site, like TRAC, to view the source in the Subversion repository, but I've opted out of that. I have no desire to view source on my build server, as that will all be done on the machine I develop on, and no inclination to install Apache on an otherwise stable server .
I think its...
Tonight I got the new blog up and running, with a new look and feel. I've decided against imported old blog entries as none were really relevant to what I'll be discussing on this web log. I'll mostly be focused on .NET and SuperOffice entries, but might occationally have something to say thats a little off the beaten track.