Nik Kalyani's Irrationally Exuberant Musings on Technology
The Apollo moon landing high-res pictures have been stitched into QuickTime VR...
Google is making a strong play into the mapping area. First, there was the acquisition of Keyhole, which I must confess, is mind blowingly cool. I have spent a lot of time looking at the cool satellite imagery of the globe. (Not surprisingly, the top of the White House and the Fort Meade area have detail removed.)
And, now Google Maps. It is amazingly fast and the ability to drag the map around is a...
Today has been frustrating. I have been looking for a decent component that can accept a URL and generate a PDF. There are many available, but they all have server-based licensing. Does anyone know of a component that will do that, has royalty-free licensing and costs less than...
I recently switched to Das Blog as my blogging software and so far I am loving it. It has all the features one expects and then some.
Since DotNetNuke lacks a good blogger, I have started a project to make Das Blog into a DNN module. There are several challenges to this, and over the coming weeks, as I delve deeper into this project, I will document my findings here.
Just to be safe, I asked Omar Shanine...
If you work with a lot of RegEx expressions in .Net, here are two excellent resources:
RegEx Designer: http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=01e0dfb7-0182-45cd-94f7-2ed2df2504a9
Regular-Expressions site:...
If you have nested ASP.Net applications, any HttpModules defined in the web.config of parent apps propogate down to the children. This can be desirable in some situations, but totally unwanted in others.
The easy way to eliminate the impact of parent HttpModules is to add a element in the child app’s web.config. Sounds simple enough, until you try it.
Turns out that because of the way ASP.Net... 
There was a question in the DNN forums today about how to display a wait indicator while an IFrame was loading its contents. My...
Working with DotNetNuke, I often have the need to convert a piece of DNN code into C# so I can modify/override it in my modules. I use the Snippets feature of Instant C# to do this. It is amazing how accurately the code conversion is done. This is a good...
I have done quite a bit of research into online photo albums and somehow seemed to have missed one (my excuse: it’s in beta). Check out Flickr. I like the U.I. … very clean. The feature I really liked is the ability to comment within a photo by highlighting an area. They call it “Notes and Tags” which is a dumb label for an excellent... 
