Just came across this error ... had my portal's password settings setup in web.config, but Dynamic Registration was still expecting the default 7 character password. A quick search on Google yielded the following solution (Dyn Registration has a field for this variable): http://www.datasprings.com/Products/ProductForums/tabid/727/view/topic/postid/1189/Default.aspx.

I've been working with Telerik's RadTools set of components for over 2 months, and keep finding new things to like. Stuff that used to take me hours to code in Classic ASP I can now accomplish in under an hour.

For example, I can setup a SQL Datasource, drop in an instance of RadGrid, bind it to the datasource, and presto ... I have an editable grid. Add features like sorting and grouping, it really makes things easy!

Nice article on ZD regarding XP vs Vista vs Win7 performance. Once I get some downtime, I'll probably be re-formatting my main machine (perhaps bumping up the RAM) to Win7 from XP.

Anyway read the article at: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355703,00.asp.

Just completed stage one of developmenmt for the ADK Product Safety Directory, located at: www.adksafetyinfo.com. This site marks my fond farewall to all things classic ASP, as I've (finally) made the leap to ASP.NET.

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!

Suppose you built a site and nobody came? TBD aimed to capture the boomer market, but unfortunately, the boomers wanted to get their own facebook accounts! Read more at: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/30/tbd-joins-the-deadpool/.

Interesting to see if any demographic specific sites (for us older folks) have any measure of success in the future.

Here is a nice hack to fckEditor's setup that will change how it marks up images in the HTML.

Go to: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/ASP/Q_23393592.html to view the entire article.

Techcrunch recently announced (http://www.techcrunch.com/) receiving funding for expanding and marketing the DNN platform. See also: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/2095/DotNetNuke-Raises-Venture-Capital.aspx for more information.

One of the best utilities for debugging and testing web apps is Firebug (http://getfirebug.com/). I use it to debug CSS, Javascript and to test load times for sites ... this is an extremely useful Firefox plugin ... anyone who does ANY development work needs this tool!

Google has a couple of new tools for webmasters ... Webmaster tools now provides detailed information on 404 pages, as well as which pages are trying to link to your resource. This allows you to either fix the issue, or assign a 301 permanent redirect. 

See: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/ for more information.  

If you're a user of Google Analytics, you may have noticed spikes in traffic when you're doing a lot of updating or testing. If this is the case, then you'll probably want to exclude your own browsing from Analytics, to provide a better picture of the site stats.

Google has a couple of simple methods of accomplishing this, go to: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55481  to read more.