11/24/2008 7:09 AM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

We had an interesting problem last week where we found that images were not being cached by browsers other than IE. IE 7, for reasons we didn't really understand IE was "correctly" returning the cached images, while every other browser was incorrectly making another HTTP GET request. The scenario was...

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11/10/2008 8:11 PM in timweaver by Tim Weaver 2 Comments

I ran into a problem last week where I kept getting this exception: Invalid index 6 for this SqlParameterCollection with Count=6. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what object was causing the issue. Individually, each object would persist correctly, but only as the aggregate did the problem...

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11/10/2008 7:43 PM in timweaver by Tim Weaver 1 Comment

Here's to all Marines - past, present and future: Happy Birthday and Semper Fi. https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/holiday/usmc2008/playmovie.asp...

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10/22/2008 7:08 AM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

One of the many features available in the Icovia Space Planner is the ability to add an image to your floor plan. If you want the image can be part of the plan itself: Or you can place a picture Icon that will popup a bubble when clicked: From this bubble you can click View Photo to see the image. In...

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10/20/2008 7:11 AM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

Way back in June of 2004 I wrote a post called Innovation . In it, I wrote about how much I hate the folder metaphor that we are stuck with on our computers. Why, for example, if I click on the Start button and select explore to I end up n levels down under Documents and Settings\UserName\Start? I’ve...

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10/19/2008 4:20 PM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

Carol and I bought our house in May of this year. We didn't have much furniture when we moved in and one of the things we need to purchase was a couch and or chairs for the living room. We took advantage of Jordan's Red Sox Deal (Go Sox) and bought an oversized couch, chairs and a carpet. Before we went...

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10/17/2008 7:14 AM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

Everyone has done development for even a short period of time has run into this question. Especially when you are faced with code you didn't write, that seems overly complex, or just doesn't do what it should, the temptation to throw it away and rewrite is very strong. Early in a developers career I...

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10/5/2008 9:37 AM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

I'm doing a lot of customization of Telligent's GraffitiCMS system lately. One thing that I found that was unclear from the documentation was how to override a view. I created a Category: News and Events (If you don't set the link name property then you will get a dash where there are spaces in the title...

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9/18/2008 6:16 AM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

Let's just get this out of the way: If you are using XML as your domain object you need to stop. If you are thinking that you are using DataSets or DataTables as domain objects so you are "better" than the XML crowd you are wrong... When you use an XML Document or Node as your domain object you are completely...

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9/8/2008 7:17 AM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

I admit it... I'm a spore junkie LOL. I'm still in the creature stage, and at this point, I would call the game very arcade like. There isn't a lot of strategy that I've seen, though there is a fair amount of hints in the manual about how all decisions now impact you later on. We shall see. So far I...

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