Development Posts from Chris Hammond

Looks like a slow day on weblogs.asp.net! I've been out all day working on the car. It was time to change the oil, so of course I used Mobil 1, even the tiny little Mobil 1 filter that costs way too much for something that small ;)

Here's some more PR for blogging, and I must admit, I've started using blogging as a marketing tool over at SoloPerformance.com. It works very well, and I hope to expand the usage to help SoloPerformance expand their market reach.

I really need to get my resume online so these ladies will stumble across me!

I've been having problems removing a few tables from SQL replication, so yesterday I just removed the replication process completely.

There's a minor fix to the sub-domain method of cDotText that required a new release. The files are available for download in the downloads section of DnnCart.com.

So we just finished an online conference call for the ASP.NET Forums discussion. It's the first time I've tried to have a conference of that nature on MSNMessenger. It was interesting, a little chaotic, but I think that's just the nature of the beast and the project at this point. I think next meeting Rob's planning on having a little bit better formulated agenda.

I've seen two posts(ers) over the past few days about jobs and recruiting. It'll be interesting to watch how these blogs prove to be for job hunters and huntees.

Just some topics to cover for DNN Skinning.

I picked up a Digital Rebel back on October 4th, since then I've take well over 1500 photos. The real reason I purchased it though is about to start back up! Racing season begins here in St. Louis on March 28th, I hope to start using the camera at some of our events and offering folks the ability to purchase prints which I will then display on Solo2.org for ordering, print them out with my Canon I9100 and mail the prints, or hand deliver to the next race.

Well, it's complete! I unlocked my MPx200 this morning and am now running it on T-Mobile.

Someone posted about unlocking MPx200's the other day, and a lawsuit in NY against AT&T and other cell providers. I can't seem the find the entry as I probably deleted it already and it's no in the aggregate feed, or the search engine, but I'm in the boat that I need to unlock my phone. I got my phone on Sunday October 26th, and instantly loved it. It's great, AT&T on the other hand has not. This past weekend I got rid of AT&T and switched my phone number to T-Mobile.

cDotText Version 0.2 (released 3-9-2004)
This package is a simple solution to semi-integrate .Text blogs into DotNetNuke. It currently allows for four things.

I'll have the new version available for download later tonight on DnnCart.com. The main new feature is that it no longer requires subdomains for it to function properly, you can have your blogs in a virtual directory below the root (one level is all that has been tested).

I was having issue with trying to get the XML feed from this blog to show up on my personal domain, www.chrishammond.com so I had to do a little searching. I ended up finding a page on handcoded that provided the XSL transformation to properly display the HTML in this feed! Thanks to Handcoded!

Just putting a note in here to remind of me something to work on, and see if anyone else has thought of this or done this already.

I wanted to set dotText up on solo2.org this evening, but I did not want to set it up as I had on DnnCart.com and soloperformance.com with seperate subdomains blogs.dnncart.com and blogs.soloperformance.com. I wanted to set it up to be www.solo2.org/blogs/. Well, DotNetNuke has some HTTPHandlers that allow you to link to it's tabs by name, for example http://www.solo2.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=27 and http://www.solo2.org/project z/default.aspx  both link to the same page. So that throws a kink into the www.solo2.org/blogs link as it throws a few errors when you try to reference the default.aspx page in the dotTextWeb directory (setup as a virtual directory for www.solo2.org/blogs)

After about losing faith last night I was able to resurrect my mpx200. I did another Master Reset, and then waited, and waited, and waited. The phone acted like it was on, displayed info on the outside, but didn't show anything but the MLife splash screen on the inside. I had a friend dial the number, and that somehow woke the phone up out of it's slumber. So far it's running fine. I've rebooted only once though, at least until I get home, as I don't want to loose it again before I get off the airplane tonight so I can call my ride! 

I think my MPx200 has died!!! I need to make some calls, so of course it's gone now. I'm sitting here waiting to see if it will finish doing a master reset, which wipes the flash and supposedly starts it over. It's been running now for a few minutes. I couldn't get the phone to hardly boot, it would boot into a funky mode, couldn't use the power button to shut it down.