Nik Kalyani's Irrationally Exuberant Musings on Technology
I have had it with designing cross-browser web pages without tables.
OK, I get it. An HTML table was never intended to be used for pixel-perfect design layouts. For that matter, HTML was never intended to be used for pixel-perfect design layouts, period.
But, I have tried to go with the flow. The design gurus say, don’t use tables…use CSS. But from a productivity standpoint, that stinks. I have spent...
Microsoft has altered the default security settings for web content running in the ‘Local Machine Zone’, that is, any web page loaded from a local source such as your hard disk or CD-ROM. The result is a warning message when such a page is loaded. To avoid this message you must place your web page into the secure ‘Internet Zone’. To do this paste the following comment at the...
If you blog often, then Das Blog and BlogJet are an amazing combination. I only started using BlogJet recently, and I tell you, I am hooked. This is an amazing program. It is quite intuitive and makes blogging very simple and...
When DNN 3.x is released, it will be the most-changed of any version in DNN’s short history. In consolidating numerous breaking changes, the Core Team (of which I am proud to be a member) took it upon itself to also get rid of some legacy baggage that DNN was carrying around from its IBuySpy roots. A richer U.I., Search, static localization, performance optimizations, content syndication...
Microsoft Word creates awful HTML code. If you need to use it on a web page (especially in an HTML editor), you will want to clean it up a bit. Here’s a Javascript function that will take a string of text copied from Microsoft Word, and return it minus all the extraneous formatting that Word adds:
function cleanWordContent(wordContent){
wordDiv =...
.Net allows you to do some amazing things with graphics using GDI+. Its handling of image meta data leaves something to be desired though. It’s like they started to do something, but then abandoned it mid-way. In working on the Speerio File Manager Pro (for ASP.Net and DotNetNuke) product’s imaging functions, after considerable research, I decided that Omar Shahine’s PhotoLibrary was the best fit....
pmgerholdt asks:
If you could field a newbie question – I have your “My Modules” solution open in VS. Say I start a VB Web Project. I can do that much – build a web project. How then do I get it to appear in DNN? Do I have to copy files to a zip file and load it via DNN’s interface for modules? Or does it automagically appear in DNN by virtue of sharing its space?...
I frequently get emails from random people asking me questions about random issues, mostly technical. I am extremely curious by nature and have a hard time leaving a technical problem unsolved and so I end up finding an answer. It’s a good way to learn new things and also hone problem-solving skills.
Since the knowledge gained is lost in that email transaction, I have decided to formalize the process...
Making progress. I now have DasBlog running as an app but in the same app space as DNN 3. I put it into ~/DesktopModules/DasBlog.
Most of the work today was in getting the VS.Net solution setup so file and assembly references work correctly. The result is a VS.Net solution called DasBlogDNN. I can build it and all the assemblies get correctly deposited into the DNN bin folder.
I am particularly excited by...
A couple of days ago, I blogged about my VS.Net Solution for DotNetNuke that allowed me to work on custom modules without making my solution file bloated with unnecessary DNN project references. After I posted about this in the ASP.Net forums, I got quite a few questions and comments. This led me to investigate further and see if it was possible to create a DNN development environment that would leave the... 
