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The Capital Weather Gang has (re)posted some really incredible snow statistics for the Mid-Atlantic region here; an excerpt:
“This winter’s snowfall amounts are similar to what Anchorage, Alaska and Portland Maine typically receive (about 70″). Incredibly, Baltimore has received more snow than any other city in the U.S. this winter…”
Needless to say, many longly-held seasonal and [...]
We interrupt this blog for a special announcement! The weather forecast for the Washington, DC and surrounding region is primed for historic snowfall (“Snowmageddon” or “Snowpocalypse II,” to some). Snow has been falling since 10am EST today (Friday) and is forecasted to extend through 10pm EST Saturday, with overnight rates of 2-3″/hour possible. This is [...]
In order to build for Office 2003 interop/automation while having Office 2007 installed in a side-by-side installation, you need to remove the .NET programmability support from each 2007 product. This ensures that the latest version available in the GAC is version 11 (2003), since most of the time .NET builds will pull from there instead [...]
The final version of Firefox 3.6 is available now! (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html?from=getfirefox)
I was recently faced with the need to create some sort of verification measure for URLs. Basically, public users would be able to access an internal system using a generated URL, and I needed to make sure that these links were very difficult to guess or even reverse-engineer.
I decided to use an SHA1 hash, which [...]
Part 2 of this series is about the client-side extension used to open the remote file locally. Normally, clicking a link to a file causes the browser to prompt the user or OS for what to do with it, and then pull it down as a stream. This behavior can sometimes be modified [...]
This is part 1 of a 2-part series detailing how I implemented WebDAV support for a Documentum repository. It is very basic and does not implement all of the methods that WebDAV supports, but it gets the job done. The end result is a type of “Web Edit” functionality that allows single-click checkout, edit, and [...]
