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Manually Installing WordPress on GoDaddy Free Linux Shared Hosting
Log in to your GoDaddy account and create a MySQL database Wait for the database to be created. Log in to the database, and note the server address Download the latest WordPress packager The latest version is available here: http://wordpress.org/latest.zip Unzip/decompress the package and upload the “wordpress” folder within to Run the WordPress installer When […]
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Motion Capture, Kinect, and You
UPDATE 2: June 16, 2011 The Kinect SDK (beta) has been released on June 16, 2011. Download it here. UPDATE: April 15, 2011 Scott Guthrie announced the SDK in his keynote speech at MIX 2011. Additionally, each attendee was also given a Kinect to start building new software with it. For their annual April fools joke, […]
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User Stories to Requirements
Agile methodologies allow development teams to better handle multiple projects and deliverables. One issue I have with User Stories is the inability to specify hard requirements. Use cases, functional requirements, and cognitive walkthroughs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_story As a user, I should be able to edit my content As a user, I should be presented with the potion […]
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Manually Installing Drupal 6.20 on GoDaddy Free Linux Shared Hosting
GoDaddy offers free hosting when you purchase a domain. The free hosting shows ads on all of the hosted pages and prevents you from installing their offered applications. Follow these steps to install Drupal 6.x on the free hosting account and hide the ads. Create the MySQL database. The free hosting allows up to 10 databases. Download […]
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Subversion Error Message on Windows 7/Windows 2008 Server
Some times when I am performing a Subversion task (update, commit, check out) I get an error message stating that files can’t be moved or deleted. A subsequent boot of my machine causes CHKDSK to run (this is what concerned me). The error message looks like this: Error: Can’t move Error: ‘[…]\.svntmpentries’ Error: to Error: […]
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Template for SQL Server Stored Procedures
Talking with our in house DBA, it was mentioned that DROP/CREATE is a bad model to follow when updating stored procedures. However, this is the model used in the stored procedure template provided by Visual Studio 2005/2010. Here is a modified template that creates an empty stored procedure if it doesn’t exist and performs an […]
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IIS Express
Web development on the Microsoft platform has always had its hurdles. With Windows XP, your development environment would use IIS 5 where as the server that would host the production site would be IIS 6. Additionally, there was the issue where we were limited to a single website running on that machine (this was a […]
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Custom Event Tracking with Google Analytics
I have been researching a method for tracking clicks to external sites from my site. Google Analytics’s custom event tracking is a nice solution. Here is a link for the asynchronous event tracking scripts for Google Analytics: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html#Anatomy. Keep in mind that to work with this code, you need the 3rd generation of Google Analytics scripts […]
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HTML5
I want to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to HTML5 and everything it has to offer so I’m using this blog entry to chronicle my research and any cool tools I find around the interwebs. I found this nice sandbox the other day http://rendera.heroku.com/. They have some nice example and am learning a […]
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Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block + SQL Optional Parameters
The Enterprise Library Data Access Block provides a number of ways of calling a stored procedure. Database _db = DatabaseFactory.CreateDatabase(<Connection String Name>); Let’s now assume that we have a stored procedure usp_MyStoredProc that takes a single parameter @param1. If this is a require parameter, both of the following statement blocks will result in the same […]