Showing articles from Tweaks tag
Modified MVC AccountController for Preview 5
I just downloaded the ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 bits from Codeplex and started on my first experiment.
Added OpenSearch!
Thanks to Scott Hanselman's post about Adding OpenSearch to your website and getting in the Browser's Search Box, I've also added the OpenSearch ability…
Wordpress 2.6 Upgrade - Fix Missing Categories
Apparently I'm not the only one having problems with the categories after a Wordpress 2.6 upgrade. So, time to give something back to the Wordpress community, some screenshots on how I fixed it.
Wordpress 2.6 Upgrade - Categories Missing
A moment ago, I decided to upgrade to the latest Wordpress version, I was running a bit behind on 2.2.3 :) The upgrade went quite smooth, all my plugins still work. But suddenly all my categories became empty strings. And the /category/ urls didn't work anymore either.
Efficient Compound Index Usage
Today I was made aware by Filip, a colleague of mine, about the importance of columns used in a where clause with a compound index. I decided to…
String Concatenation vs Memory Allocation
Over the years, plenty has been written about .net String vs. StringBuilder - concatenation performance Concatenating Strings Efficiently, lots of…
Reverse Engineering with Reflector and Reflexil
I've always been a big fan of Reflector, allowing me to have a look in assemblies to learn new things, debug in case of problems and provide useful…
Daemon Tools - The Disk Image Emulator
Ever wanted to install something but couldn’t be bothered to burn it to a disc first? Like the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 discs for example. Daemon Tools…
Personalizing Outlook Today
Do you find Outlook Today too boring? I do! Let's have a look at how we can transform it into something more visually appealing, something like this…
Visual Studio 2008 and PHP Coloring
Visual Studio is a great editor! But when editing other file formats I miss the coloring.
Search File Contents
When using the Windows Search functionality, you can search for words inside files. By default this doesn't seem to work for .sql or .php files however.
Fixing Virtual PC Keyboard Lockup
Lately I hear about a lot of people using VPC that their keyboard suddenly stops working inside VPC.
Changing Pocket PC Language
The Pocket PC I recently received was completely in French, so I figured 'I'll just change this to English'.
Add IE Features - New keywords (yeah, the ones Firefox users are so proud of)
Right, someone trying to convince me why Firefox is so much better than IE brought up the issue of being able to type "google searchterm" into his Adress…
Hacking Uxtheme.dll - Watercolor Theme
One thing I immediately do on a new pc is get it personalized. This includes changing icons and wallpapers, but also resource hacking the run box and…
Random Wallpaper through Scheduled Tasks
With my new laptop I got a screen with a 1920x1200 resolution, so I went out looking for wallpapers for the resolution, because my existing ones degraded…
Custom Run Box (Resource Hacking)
It's time for a new article, but not about C this time. I'll tell you how to modify Windows, we'll change the Run box and make it look like this:
Tweaking the Run Box (Windows Resource Hacking)
Time for a new article, but not about C this time.
ConvertToProperties Macro
For everyone who received .NET Magazine 5, there's an article in there at page 53 about cleaning up your code.
UPX - the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
A tool I used a lot on my .exe's when creating VB6 applications is UPX (which stands for the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables).
VBDOX - Documentation Generator for VB6
A long time ago I talked about how great NDoc is.
Javascript Open Directory Image Viewer
You all know those open directories with pictures in it.
Re-Enable user:pass@ IE functionality.
On one side you want to keep your machine up to date with all latest patches, but then there is "Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (832894)", which disables the user:pass@ way of authentication. Now, do you update and loose this functionality (which can be handy), or don't apply it but have the other security it fixes unpatched?