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