VMWare Fusion allows Mac users to run virtualized operating systems. The “Shared Folder” feature allows for sharing profile folders on the Mac (Desktop, Documents, Music, Pictures) with virtualized operating systems. Having a shared work space eliminates the need for duplication of files that need to be used in both operating systems. I run a virtualized Windows XP operating system so that I can code in Visual Studio on my Mac. I prefer to do design (HTML, CSS) on the Mac side of things. Having shared storage for use in my projects eliminates the need to copy back and forth. It also allows me to backup my Visual Studio projects using Time Machine without having to make a copy of... [More]

Danny Douglass created an excellent flickr photo gallery for Blogengine.NET. It's located here. Since GoDaddy is my host, I have to deal with medium trust issues, so Danny's gallery wouldnt work for me. Fortunately, Danny released the source for this module, so I modified it for my purposes. After debugging a bit, I found that the security on my IIS 7 hosted site wouldn't allow me to cache downloaded flickr photos. You would think that I could just point the cache folder to one on my site with write permissions. Unfortunately, the FlickrNET provider that the gallery was built with asks for a location in the <drive>:\<folder> format (for example:... [More]

Alas, I have moved away from PHP and MySQL (wordpress) towards .NET and MSSQL (blogengine.net), although I still have many negative feelings towards Microsoft (mostly because of their licensing/DRM policies) and many positives toward open source and freedom from cost. Wordpress rocks, don't get me wrong; boy wordpress and I sure had a lot of fun. Yet, I am training for MS certifications, and coding in dotnet just comes natural anymore. Plus Visual Studio 2k5 blows any php editor out of the water. With the advent of .NET being released to the open community by Microsoft, I foresee a foothold on the web app scene by .NET. Besides, any one who codes both languages knows that that C# is a ... [More]