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Just post it

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

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

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

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

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

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.

jQuery Ribbon

I just came across another fantastic plug-in for jQuery, my favorite javascript framework. It is the Ribbon plug-in and it looks amazing. It almost exactly like the ribbon in Office 2010.It supports access keys, themes, lists, groups, forms, and dropdown menus. The demo page can be found at http://vinkr.net/ribbon. The code can be found on More >

TechEd 2009 Presenters keeping their cool

I have attended two session where the same repeated problem kept happening to the presenters.
The first SOA201 A First Look at WCF and WF in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 with Aaron Skonnard. For some unknown reason, the slides where advancing without Aaron actually moving them forward. It could have been an evil trick being More >

Getting E-mail to work with Blogengine.net and Webhost4life

I realized, while I was here at TechEd 2009, that email wasn’t working for this blog. I use for my blogging software and my hosting provider is . In order to get it to work just go into your setting in blogengine.net and just type mail.webhost4life.com  in the SMTP field and turn off SSL. More >

The T-Shirts of TechEd 2009

After the expo last night, I took photos of all the t-shirts I collected. I have both the fronts and the backs pictured. If there is a shirt that I am missing and want it displayed here, make a comment and I will stop by and pick one up and add it to the photos More >