Tweaks on David Cumps

Modified MVC AccountController for Preview 5

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0200

I just downloaded the ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 bits from Codeplex and started on my first experiment.

Added OpenSearch!

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

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 to this blog.

Wordpress 2.6 Upgrade - Fix Missing Categories

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

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

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

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. After looking around a bit, I noticed my categories were stored in the wp_term_taxonomy table, with empty descriptions. Thankfully I had a backup and manually entered the descriptions for all of them.

Efficient Compound Index Usage

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0200

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 investigate this a bit more in detail, with proper profiling and comparisons on a large data set.

String Concatenation vs Memory Allocation

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Over the years, plenty has been written about .net String vs. StringBuilder - concatenation performance Concatenating Strings Efficiently, lots of comparisons between String.Concat and StringBuilder. Today I decided to do some of my own research into the subject and contribute to the knowledge already out there. More specifically, I’ll be taking a look at the memory usage for various concatenation methods and compiler optimizations used to generate the IL.

Reverse Engineering with Reflector and Reflexil

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0200

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 information when creating bug reports. Combined with the Reflexil Add-in it’s now easy to also modify assemblies yourself.

Daemon Tools - The Disk Image Emulator

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

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 is the answer!

Personalizing Outlook Today

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

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: (click the image for a full view)

Visual Studio 2008 and PHP Coloring

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Visual Studio is a great editor! But when editing other file formats I miss the coloring.

Search File Contents

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

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

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0200

Lately I hear about a lot of people using VPC that their keyboard suddenly stops working inside VPC.

Changing Pocket PC Language

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0200

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)

Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0200

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 bar and immediately being taken to the site.

Hacking Uxtheme.dll - Watercolor Theme

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0200

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 hacking the uxtheme.dll to support custom themes.

Random Wallpaper through Scheduled Tasks

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0200

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 in quality with that size.

Custom Run Box (Resource Hacking)

Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0200

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)

Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Time for a new article, but not about C# this time.

ConvertToProperties Macro

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0200

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

Sat, 08 May 2004 00:00:00 +0200

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

Fri, 07 May 2004 00:00:00 +0200

A long time ago I talked about how great NDoc is.

Javascript Open Directory Image Viewer

Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0100

You all know those open directories with pictures in it.

Re-Enable user:pass@ IE functionality.

Sat, 07 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Here’s a dilemma:

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.