K2 blackpearl and Windows Explorer context menus
Jul 20th
I was about to go through and upgrade a whole host of old K2.net 2003 workflows. When I notice that in the context menu there was an option to upgrade.
I thought it was nice that K2 was detailed enough to put something in this small and useful. So I clicked on it and Visual Studio More >
The T-Shirts of TechEd 2010
Jun 8th
After the expo last night, I took photos of all the t-shirts I collected. I have both the fronts and the backs pictured. I left my camera at home, so I ended up having to use my camera phone, so sorry for any quality issues. If there is a shirt that I am missing and More >
The T-Shirts of TechEd 2010 Early Edition
Jun 3rd
For the last two years (2008, 2009), I have run around the partner expo and tried to get every t-shirt possible. I checked my stats and last years post had over 3000 hits. I have to say I was pretty excited to see that. I will once again try to recreate the success of the More >
My Wordpress plugins
Mar 18th
I wanted to share what plugins I use currently on this blog. I actually spent way more time browsing the plugin directory then I did setting up wordpress. By that I mean moving blogging providers, setting up the blog, and migrating all my posts. I can’t say that I looked at each plugin in the More >
Just post it
Mar 4th
I was participating in the workshop on How to Become a Person of Influence, hosted by Jo Miller, at Grace Hopper 2009. Throughout the workshop we were asked to exchange ideas and our assignments with those at the table. I was lucky enough to have Stormy Peters (of GNOME fame) at my table. During one More >
jQuery 1.4.1 and Intellisense
Feb 9th
If you are looking for the jquery 1.4.1 intellisense file(-vsdoc). It can now be found on the downloads section of jQuery web site. Here is the direct link for the -vsdoc file for jQuery.
In order to get VS 2008 SP1 to automatically use -vsdoc files with intellisense, you will still need to install the patch More >
Why I switched to Wordpress
Feb 8th
Deciding to switch from BlogEngine.Net was something I did struggled with. I felt some loyalty to it though, because primarily I am an .Net developer. So making this decision was not easy at first, but after careful consideration of what was important to me the decision was easy.
I switched to Wordpress because BlogEngine.Net just wasn’t More >
Importing BlogML to Wordpress
Feb 1st
I was using BlogEngine.NET, so I went to the main administrator page and exported my blog to a BlogML file on my computer.
Make sure your exported xml file is in UTF-8 format.
Install Wordpress on you favorite hosting provider. On many hosting providers this is a few click process that runs an auto installer.
Wordpress does not More >
Updated the blog
Jan 25th
For those of you who actually visit casadevega and not view it through your favorite rss reader, you would have seen that my blog as gone through a complete redesign. What you might have not noticed is that I switch blogging software, from BlogEngine.NET to Wordpress (I will go into why in a later post). More >
Moderating Comment
Jul 27th
I have decided to start moderating comments after being spamed for the last few days. So if you leave a comment, I will eventually approved it if I feel it isn't spam.