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WordPress 3.0

Posted by steve on June 20, 2010 at 6:26 am

Easily accomplished a manual upgrade to this version by: Made a backup of my wordpress contents, by using the export feature under tools, from the admin control panel Downloaded and extracted wordpress 3.0 from here Only change l made to my exisiting wp-config.php file, was to replace the key section with code from here. Deleted [...]

OpenOffice…

Posted by ms24503 on March 25, 2010 at 6:27 am

I’ve been looking for a “free” alternative to Microsoft Office 2007 for general work on my laptop. I decided to try out OpenOffice which l know is installed on my Ubuntu linux partition. Theres a windows version which installs pretty quickly and with no problems on Windows 7 – l use Windows 7 64bit Home [...]

Network…

Posted by ms24503 on March 6, 2010 at 10:22 pm

Finally decided to revisit my home network – LAN and Wireless, especially with respect to wifi security. My setup essentially is this: a private Gigabit Local Area Network [LAN] using 192.168.0.x ip address range served by a dhcp server running off Smoothwall Express – an open source based excellent firewall program. I downloaded the iso [...]

Preventing DNS hijacking by your ISP…

Posted by ms24503 on January 24, 2010 at 12:19 pm

Here is a link and interesting discuss on doing this if you use comcast. Here is a direct link to their solution webpage. Here is the link to OpenDNS.  I’ve always found it annoying when you get redirected to a comcast search control+ad page, or a bing.com page when you mistype a url. This might [...]

Nexus One – Android 2 – Eclipse

Posted by ms24503 on January 15, 2010 at 12:32 pm

Decided to revisit Android development due to the release of Google’s Nexus One Phone Here are my steps so far: Download and install Eclipse Development environment from here [eclipse-jee-galileo-SR1-win32.zip ] Simply extract this to say, c:\eclipse Run eclipse Install Google’s ADT Plugin for Eclipse from here Download and install the SDK from here – in [...]

SQL Azure

Posted by ms24503 on December 6, 2009 at 2:49 am

SQL Azure is a fully relational database in the cloud by Microsoft. See this link for the main website. For how to connect to Azure using ADO.Net heres a good link from msdn and another link which l’m currently using to work on plugging the northwind sample database to azure and using a WPF datagrid [...]

Future of the web..

Posted by ms24503 on November 3, 2009 at 9:09 am

Interesting article on the future of the web, where will we be in five years? Click here for the article.

Google voice…

Posted by ms24503 on October 3, 2009 at 11:00 pm

Got an invitation around 8:30am PST for Google Voice. Signed up for it, and l’m excited at the features offered – which include: One number for all your calls and SMS * Call screening – Announce and screen callers * Listen in – Listen before taking a call * Block calls – Keep unwanted callers [...]

Windows Presentation Foundation…

Posted by ms24503 on August 21, 2009 at 5:02 pm

Heres the main Microsoft website for WPF – Windows Presentation Foundation which allows developers to build very rich visually – Graphical User Interfaces. You might have discovered that you really need Microsoft Expression Blend to develop the WPF GUI – heres a link to some excellent videos by Martin Grayson which covers learning Blend while [...]

Microsoft Virtual Labs

Posted by ms24503 on August 17, 2009 at 5:05 pm

Heres a link to excellent free labs in an online virtual environment. If you are working on the MSDN Virtual Lab: Visual Studio 2008 – Developing a WPF Application and need the code, click here to get it. Another good source for reference code is this link l just found. Enjoy / Happy Coding.



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