A minor fix, this. The Archive Calendar on the right over there now has support for caching monthly and daily post collections so that the potentially expensive query plus retrieval from the database doesn't happen every time. […]
READ MOREOur local newspaper is the Gazette and we have it delivered every day. Neither of us like it particularly — we also get the New York Times, which is more reliable for news — but having the local news is essential for my wife's work. […]
READ MOREI have a whole set of posts on my static website that I'd like to transfer over to my Graffiti CMS site, leaving behind a redirect link. Since I was using CityDesk from Fog Creek to blog before, there's no migration tool available. Hey, no problem, I'm a developer at heart so it's just a simple case of opening up a a couple of databases, writing a conversion routine, and Bob's your uncle. […]
READ MOREWhat with one thing or another, I spend some appreciable amount of my time in Visual Studio. So, like you, I've customized the font and color scheme so that it looks good to me and I can quickly grok code within it. Not as drastically as some, I must say — and given my predilection for grays and muted colors, I'm surprised I haven't gone for this one. […]
READ MOREThis afternoon, for want of anything better to do with the freezing cold outside and the housework inside, I wrote an archive calendar chalk extension for the website. It's over there on the far sidebar. […]
READ MORESheer awesomeness. The bug that bricked all those 30GB Zunes on 31st December 2008 was an infinite loop. […]
READ MOREI just got back to my main desktop, only to find the Norton Security Scan running with a scanning window showing. Fair enough you might say, except that I'd uninstalled it 2 days ago. WTF? […]
READ MOREAlthough I love using Windows Live Writer (WLW) to write blog posts here and at work, one of the problems I've had with it is that, out of the box, it's mostly geared to what you might call "simple" posts. Normal text, bold, italics, underline, bullets, numbered lists, tables, images: no sweat. Words or phrases marked with <code> not at all, and that's something I tend to use a lot of when writing a "technical" blog post. A quotation with <blockquote>? Nah, sorry. […]
...And mine arrived this afternoon. Just stunningly beautiful, and the picture does it no justice whatsoever. You have to hold one in your hands, weigh its heft, feel the clicks as you wind the handle, peer at the little digits. […]
READ MORENope, but, boy, was it a coincidence! I use Scott Watermasysk's Graffiti Plug-in library to add Twitter notifications when I add new posts to this blog. Well, the weekend before last, I upgraded to Graffiti CMS 1.2 and blogged about it. The plug-in duly tweeted it. No problem. […]
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