June 2011 - Posts

Calculating Dell Power Consumption for Servers by Jason's Blog

We are in the process of building out a new data center. One of the items I needed to know was a rough estimate of our new, monthly electrical bill. In some cases, you may need to show a return on investment (ROI) for going to a virtualized environment...

Port your Android or iPhone apps to Windows Phone 7 by Jason's Blog

Did you know that your current Android or iPhone apps can be ported to Windows Phone 7? Now, there’s no “easy” button that will automagically convert the apps for you. However, in a post on June 9th, 2011 , the Windows Phone team explained how Android...

Changing the Title in the Tile Icon of a Windows Phone 7 Application by Jason's Blog

If you’ve built a Windows Phone 7 application, you may have noticed that if you pin your application to the Start menu, the name of your application appears in the lower, left-hand side of the tile. You can change the text in this tile, by right-clicking...

Using Web.config Transforms in ASP.NET by Jason's Blog

One of my team members was working on an issue today within an application. The application is setup to use web.config transformations. Web.config transforms are a great way to create multiple build configurations (including, but not limited to, the debug...

Orchard CMS Command Line Exception by Jason's Blog

Late last week when I was at CodeStock 2011, I ran into an error with the orchard.exe command line utility. The exception generated looked similar to the following: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Orchard\Modules\Orchard.Packaging\Services\FileBaseProjectSystem.cs...

Disneyland Adventures due out November 15th by Jason's Blog

Earlier today at the E3 Expo, Microsoft unveiled several new features to Xbox Live, Kinect, and announced several new games including Halo 4, Kinect Sports Season Two, and Kinect Disneyland Adventures. Kinect Disneyland Adventures is pegged to be the...

The WeatherDotCom Widget for Orchard CMS by Jason's Blog

If you’ve checked out my new website recently, you may have noticed that I have included the weather on the site. Mouse over on the right-hand side and you’ll notice a “bing-like” box that will appear. I’ll talk about this a bit more in a bit, but you...

Grow Your Website using Orchard by Jason's Blog

I’m just wrapping up a trip to Eastern Tennessee’s CodeStock 2011 (in Knoxville to be precise). While I was down here, I presented on the Orchard CMS . Both the conference and talk were great and while I’m never really satisfied with any of my talks,...

Preparing for CodeStock 2011 by Jason's Blog

I arrived in Sevierville, TN last evening in preparation for CodeStock 2011. I’ll be presenting about the Orchard CMS tomorrow at 12:30pm in room 401. You can read more about the talk on the CodeStock site at http://codestock.org/Sessions/grow-your-website...
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