http://pittcrew.net/geekblog A blog only a geek could love Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:17:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It looks like this blog was recently hacked with a rather nasty, malware-distributing trojan, and apparently this has been a rather wide-spread problem. Hopefully there weren't too many visitors turned away by the "Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!" message from Google. Here is a blog ... http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2008/06/13/we-were-hacked/ Some of the standard ASP.NET server controls allow the user to specify a template containing custom markup that will be used inside the server control. It is possible to create ".ascx" user controls that make use of this type of template. The MSDN documentation explains how. http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2008/05/27/templates-in-aspnet-user-controls/ When discussing the new features in Visual Studio 2008, LINQ gets most of the press. However, LINQ only works if you are targeting the .NET 3.5 Framework. Another new feature of Visual Studio 2008 is the ability to choose which Framework version to target, and sometimes you just don't have ... http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2008/05/17/c-30-features-for-net-20/ Clearly blog posts have been very sparse here, so I'm going to try something new. Whenever I find a good article or web site that helps me solve a particular problem I'm having, I'll try to dash off a quick post referencing it. This'll help me locate the information if ... http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2008/05/07/webresourceaxd-mystery-solved/ I recently purchased a U3-enabled flash drive. I've been using Password Safe (originally from Bruce Schneier's Counterpane Labs, now a SourceForge project) for some time now to store my passwords, and it seemed like a perfect application to have on a flash drive. I was shocked when I discovered that ... http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2007/10/23/u3-version-of-password-safe/ We're finally back after some extended downtime. Obviously I don't get around to updating the site very often, so I'm sure it comes as no surprise that I didn't notice the problem right away. A big thanks to Jeffrey who emailed to inform me that ScribbishWP was unavailable. All of ... http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2007/09/22/back-online/ I finally upgraded the blog to run on WordPress 2.0. I've been holding off on this for awhile because I just haven't had the time to deal with it. I'm happy to report, though, that the upgrade went just as smoothly as the WordPress documentation claims. After backing up the ... http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2006/11/29/upgrade-to-wordpress-20/ After a lengthy beta cycle, Internet Explorer 7 has finally been released. Microsoft claims that IE7 has significantly better CSS compatibility than previous releases, so how does that impact the sidebar "bug" in ScribbishWP? You'll be happy to know that IE7 does in fact fix the overflow problem that caused the sidebar ... http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2006/10/20/ie7-and-the-scribbishwp-sidebar/ From eWeek, the free development tools market is about to get bigger as Borland resurrects the Turbo brand. In addition to Turbo C++, the lineup includes Turbo Delphi for Win32, Turbo Delphi for .NET, and Turbo C#. Each Turbo product will be available in a free Explorer version and a ... http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2006/08/08/turbo-c-returns/ Some ScribbishWP users have reported problems with the sidebar in Internet Explorer. When the site is viewed in other browsers such as Firefox or Safari everything looks fine, but in IE the sidebar disappears to the bottom of the page below the content. The problem doesn't occur on all ScribbishWP ... http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2006/07/18/scribbishwp-sidebar-bug-in-ie/