http://pittcrew.net/geekblog A blog only a geek could love Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:17:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google recently increased the size of the search box on the home page and search results. Am I the only one that thinks it looks clunky and amateurish? http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2009/09/15/super-sized-google-search-box/ I recently went through the unfortunate demise of the primary disk on my main development machine, so I had to rebuild my dev environment from scratch. I have a test server running SQL Server 2005, so I decided to install SQL Server 2008 on my dev machine for compatibility testing. ... http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2009/01/23/visual-studio-2008-database-edition-and-sql-server-2008/ When creating a new Windows Communication Foundation web service, the default extension is .svc. This can be a problem if you want to migrate an existing .NET web service where clients may have hard-coded the .asmx extension. The following article from MSDN Blogs shows how to configure a WCF web ... http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2008/10/16/wcf-services-with-the-asmx-extension/ Via Ajaxian: Google is now hosting a number of open-source AJAX libraries, so you can take advantage of the vast Google infrastructure to reduce the load on your server. Complete details on how to access the script files can be found in the AJAX Libraries API Developer's Guide. http://pittcrew.net/geekblog/2008/10/15/open-source-ajax-libraries-hosted-by-google/ 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/