Filing this away so I can revisit at a later date. See: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/10-top-iphone-apps-it-pros-045?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_mobilehdwr_2009-12-30 for a short list of usefull IT apps for the iPhone.

And it works for "regular" .net sites as well. See: http://www.metanous.be/boblog/post/Getting-BlogEngineNET-within-a-DotNetNuke-website.aspx for the complete text ... simple, add the code to the parent web.config, then configure the BE.net folder as an application in asp.net ... done!

This was an annoying problem, for me, solved in large part due to the info from this article: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/070506-1.aspx.

So yes, you CAN modify the default user registration wizard to work with your data requirements.

Left my home office for a minute today, came back and found that my daughter had "helped" me with a membership issue in asp.net ...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <authorization>
          <allow roles="user" /> ,, ,mk,mk,m,mm,m,,,,,m,mm,m,m,m mnmkmkj,,,m,kkkk                                       nnmmkj,,mkj ,jkb kjb 
          <deny users="*" />           
        </authorization>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

I didn't test, but don't think this will work too well!

A really (REALLY!!!) simple application using asp.net to query a small database. Using a databound  dropdown list to query the table.

Spent a couple of hours today reviewing this stuff from start to finish ... my goal is to never start another classic ASP site again!

See it: http://www.lcm-res.com/demos/dotnet/website4/demo1.aspx.

(Oh, and this if simply for my benefit ... not expecting anyone to click on the link ... and if you do, you have too much spare time!)

Looking for a connection string to a datasource, in just about any format? Go to http://www.connectionstrings.com/ ... a very nice resource. Just used it to get a sample connection string for some tutorials I'm working through ... I'm taking some old databases, then repeating some of the .NET stuff I'm learning (c# at that!) ... hopefully it will get embedde in my brain! <G>

Well, this post solved one problem I've been having with a DNN 5 upgrade: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/33/threadid/126628/scope/posts/Default.aspx. Was getting: "Private Shared objProvider As DataProvider = Nothing" as part of an error. Removing the DLLs seemed to have done the trick ... at least the site loads now!

it looks like I'll be learning more C# for ASP.NET ... makes sense, given some existing mods I've done to ASPdotnetstorefront using this language.

For a concise explanation of the two datatypes in SQL Server, see: http://weblogs.asp.net/guys/archive/2005/01/15/353550.aspx.

While I don't think VISTA is quite as bad as everyone says it is, I'll still welcome Windows 7, especially if MS can trim all of the different versions and price points. Read more about the upcoming release (October 2009) here: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Windows-7-Hits-the-Street-on-Oct-22-799332/?kc=EWKNLNAV06032009STR1.

Here is a link with good information on building and submitting sitemaps: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/promote/promote-16.html.

Check out this interesting, if somewhat brief article about the pros and cons of contracting at: http://blogs.eweek.com/careers/content001/employment_economics/it_contracting_is_it_for_you.html#comments. Still more interesting to me are the comments.

Some salaries are cut by as much as 6% due to h1b visas. Hmmm. Read more at: http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/h-1b-visa-use-cuts-some-us-it-worker-wages-6-percent-006.

I have written my last classic ASP app. Yes, I'll still modify existing applications, but it is time that I put in the time to fully understand the .NET framework. I've been able to hack around in VS 2008, to the point that I was able to modify an existing application's shipping algorithm to access a LTL Frieght API, but really don't have much experience going start-to-finish with an application. So today I'm downloading some of the sample SQL DBs, and will be dutifully working through the samples, concentrating on understanding the IDE and getting up-to-speed on creating winforms and ASP.NET pages. Silverlight seems interesting as well, but that will wait until I'm a bit happier with my .NET prowess.

Given that I still have other projects, I'll be spending a 30 minutes / day working through code samples, books and other resources. 

Codeplex has some nice samples: http://www.codeplex.com/SqlServerSamples for self-taught folks such as myself. 

After trying to diagnose an issue with a SWF suddenly not working in IE, I found a nice piece of code on (of all places!) Google Code. The swfObject code is a standards based method of embedding Flash files into an HTML document. The page comes with a builder app that creates the code needed to properly embed a SWF ... and it works ... using the techniques in the file, my IE errors suddenly vanished.

Get it at: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/