Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Getting scribefire working with dasblog
I recently switched this blog to dasBlog and I had a nice little firefox addon called ScibeFire that I could not get to work with it. Thanks to Kelly Keeton for the tip that made the connection in my head.

My confusion was the end point on dasBlog is called Blogger.aspx, but the type (API) is MetaBlogAPI, so when setting up the blog in ScibeFire you have to choose Manually Configure-->Custom Blog-->MetaBlog API then put in <%yourBlogPath%>/blogger.aspx.

Then it works great. In fact, this is my first post from ScribeFire.


Edit: The only problem is ScribeFire appends an ad to your post. To disable the add/trackback, click the ">>" in the upper left, choose "Settings" and uncheck "Automatically insert' Powered by ScibeFire'"
Posted By: Chris Burkhardt on September 25, 2007  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Thursday, September 20, 2007
Come on Microsoft
I'm a Microsoft guy, a fan, supporter whatever. I've been programing with Microsoft for Microsoft almost since I got my start. I want MS to do well so I do well, which is why their live search pisses me off. It's not very good in general, but when I see things like this, it makes it worse:




It's fixed now, but a search for "Your doing it wrong" shows 0 results on Live (Live Search?) and 69 Million on Google. I was using IE7 with Live as the default provider, and immediately switched.

Even now that live search returns results, they suck. Compare Live Vs Google


Posted By: Chris Burkhardt on September 20, 2007  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Saturday, March 24, 2007
SQL Server 2005 change password

It seems a new feature fo MSSQL 2005 is that any new accounts have to change their password at first logon. This is kind of a pain, since most people don't 'logon' to their accounts, at least for me because I do web programming. How is my website going to change its password?

Luckyliy I found a must change post with some tsql to do the trick:
ALTER LOGIN X WITH PASSWORD = 'Y'

That bit will unlock the account so you can use it.

I'm not a tsql guy, so maybe this is easy for some people, but for a guy just trying to store some information in a DB, this was a pain. It made a routine task of setting up a user into a 30 min hair tear.

Thanks to Peter for the tip.

Posted By: Chris Burkhardt on March 24, 2007  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Wednesday, February 28, 2007
vertical-align is for inline child elements

Maybe that is easy for some css gurus to remember, but I always have trouble getting it to work. Use the style vertical-align: top to align inline children elements of a block parent.

Here is a sample that should illustrate:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head >
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></meta>
    <title>Text Align Test</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div>
   
    <div style="height: 100px; width: 300px; background-color: teal; vertical-align: top;">
            <span style="background-color: red; font-size: 28px;">Align This</span>
            <span style="background-color: #00A4FF;">Inline</span><br />
            Next Line
    </div>
   
    <div style="height: 100px; width: 300px; background-color: teal;">
            <span style="background-color: red; font-size: 28px;">Align This</span>
            <span style="background-color: #00A4FF; vertical-align: top;">Inline</span><br />
            Next Line
    </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Posted By: Chris Burkhardt on February 28, 2007  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |