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Monthly Archives: February 2006

Brrreeeport and BlogCode

Robert Scoble, blogger-under-notice from Microsoft, posted an interesting blurb about search ranking and secret blogger cliques. He suggested sticking the word brrreeeport in your blog to prove his point about tagging on Technorati. Wonder if it will work?

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Logging queries in MySQL

I was struggling for a while with how to get a profile of the queries being sent to MySQL. All my searches suggested running the debug version of MySQL, but it would either log WAY WAY too much information, or … Continue reading

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“Visual Studio .NET has detected Web server is not running ASP.NET 1.1″ or Unexpected Error when starting a web on your development machine

If you’re getting the above error when loading your Visual Studio project, you should first ensure that the web server on your PC is running. Then confirm that .NET is installed by running “aspnet_regiis -i” in your windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322 folder. Then … Continue reading

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Instant Rails for Ruby on Rails development on Windows

Like many developers, I’ve been intrigued by the hype around Ruby on Rails, but of course I don’t have a Linux box handy and don’t feel like setting up Apache, etc to try it out. What’s a lazy programmer to … Continue reading

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Invalid_Viewstate or “Unable to validate data” error

On one of my projects, the client noted getting occasional errors when filling out forms. The errors were something like “Unable to validate data” or HttpException: Invalid_Viewstate. After some research, it turns out the error is due to the viewstate … Continue reading

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