October 2007 - Posts
I took my first trip last Tuesday night with my new Garmin nuvi 660 and as I expected, it worked perfectly. I only had one problem, and I think it's because my eyesight isn't what it used to be. I came to an intersection and the nuvi said 'turn left on such and such a street', and there were actually two lefts at the intersection and I couldn't see the signs well enough to know which one to take. I guessed wrong, but the nuvi quickly recalculated my route and got me where I wanted to go.
For those of you having a hard time keeping up with all the toys that have been recalled, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has put up a page on their web site with a complete list, the newest at the top.
Last night, I went to the CT Dot Net Users Group meeting at the Microsoft Farmington office. The featured act was It’s All About The Tools – Episode 1 starring Russ Fustino. The coolest thing I learned about was Windows Live Writer - you can use it to post to just about any blog - I am using it to post here on Community Server and I also used it to post to Accessibility Diva on Blogspot. It saves the settings for both so I can switch back and forth pretty quickly. Very cool tool :-)
This happened to me yesterday and I remembered that Rob Giordano (Crash), a Microsoft MVP for Expression Web, had discovered and shared the solution in the microsoft.public.frontpage.client newsgroup.
In IE7
Tools | Internet Options | Security | Local Intranet | Sites | Advanced and add localhost to the list.
From BillS' IIS Blog, FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) for IIS7 RC0 have been released. I still haven't upgraded any of my PCs to Vista yet, but this gets me one step closer. The other thing that needs to happen before I upgrade is that the Vista team has to fix the crash that happens when inserting hyperlinks in FrontPage 2003.
After making two road trips this week without a GPS, I made my way to alt.satellite.gps and found some very knowledgable people there (thanks, Rich and Uncle Ben!). I also made a road trip to Best Buy, Circuit City and CompUSA. Rich pointed out a great chart at GPSTracklog.com that showed which nuvis have the features I am looking for. I chose the nuvi 660, which happens to be on sale at Amazon.com and ordered it today - I should have it by the end of the week.
I just won a Zune at ReMIX07 - all I had to do was fill out my evaluation form for all the sessions I attended today and also get my form validated by at least six of the partner vendors in the exhibition hall. It's a 30GB and will be upgradeable to the new software when Zune 2.0 comes out.
But that's OK. I'm here for ReMIX07 at the Cambridge Hyatt (room with a river view, BTW) and all the events are here in the hotel. The keynote starts at 9 so I've got to get moving if I'm going to make it. There's almost 800 people registered, so it should be a great conference.
Last spring, I bought a Mio c310x GPS at Fry's and I've gotten a lot use out of it. It really saved my butt on a last-minute trip to North Carolina in April. So, tonight, I'm packing, getting ready for ReMIX07 in Boston, and I can't find the GPS!
I've always wondered what my sites looked like, and more importantly, if they worked, on a Mac. I've got my eye on the MacBook Pro, but I'm waiting until Leopard with BootCamp comes out. Today, I downloaded Safari for Windows, and sure enough, I found a drop down menu on one of my sites that didn't work. It had no options in the drop down list other than the first one, no "Submit" button and worse than that, all the content underneath it was gone! I eyeballed the JavaScript and couldn't find the problem, so I Googled for Javascript validator and found JSLint. The author, Douglas Crockford, keeps it up-to-date and it's free. All you need to do is copy your page source into a text box on the page and hit the JSLint button. It will validate as much of your script as it can, and it's pretty clear about telling you what the problem is. I was able to fix the page and get it working in Safari in no time. I highly recommend adding both of these tools to your toolbox.
Being a state government employee, with my email address out there on at least 3 state web sites that I know of, I know this has got to be true.
We're pleased to announce that ReMIX07 Boston is now sold out, and no more registrations will be possible. We're expecting a jam-packed event, and look forward to seeing everyone this week in Boston. If you didn't get in, you can keep up with the event on the ReMIX07 Boston web site, where we'll be posting videos from selected sessions, interviews with industry luminaries, and more. You can also join our ReMIX07 Boston Facebook group to continue the conversation.
If you must put PDF documents on your web site, here's a good article about how to make them findable by search engines. What's pretty cool is that many of the tips will also help make your PDFs accessible to people with disabilities.
Phizzpop is a new part of MIX Online that lets agency designers and developers interact, share, and show off their stuff. It's going to be announced at ReMIX07 in Boston next week (have you registered yet?), but you can view a demo and try it for yourself now.
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success every day. Your extraordinary efforts in Microsoft Office FrontPage technical communities during the past year are greatly appreciated.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.
MVPs represent a broad spectrum of Microsoft product users. They occupy many different professions including accountants, teachers, artists, engineers and technologists. MVPs reside in over 90 countries, represent 30 different languages, and cover more than 90 Microsoft technologies.
Oh, yeah - one other thing - I feel great!