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Entry From Microsoft With Love: Daylight Savings Time

entry 22 Feb, 2007 - 01:04 PM
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Dear Valued Microsoft Customer,

In 2005, the United States government passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This act changes the start and end dates for Daylight Saving Time (DST) as of spring 2007. These changes may impact the way applications run. Microsoft is releasing an update for Windows through Microsoft Update that reflects these changes.

Developers who use the .NET Framework may find their applications affected if the application uses the time zone information for historical purposes or if they have derived custom classes from System.TimeZone to provide custom time zone information. The standard System.TimeZone class provides a managed wrapper for the underlying Windows Operating System time zone functions.

In addition, developers who use Visual C++ may find their applications affected if they use the CRT time functions, or the TZ environment variable. Microsoft is currently working on a fix for this issue and will post information about its availability on the Visual Studio Support page.

Most applications that use these affected classes will not need to be modified as this update will ensure that the correct data is provided seamlessly to the application. However, applications that use these classes or the underlying Windows API to perform historical time look-ups will need to be modified.

In most cases, developers who have extended the .NET Framework’s time zone support by creating custom time zone classes derived from System.TimeZone, or by direct access to the Win32 API, will not have to update their applications as long as the available updates to the operating system are applied. However, solutions that rely on private time zone data, or that retrieve system time zone information by accessing the registry directly, may need to be updated. Applications that deal with historical time zone data may also need to be updated.

Microsoft advises all developers who make use of time zone data to test their applications against this update to ensure that their applications function correctly.

For more detailed information and the latest updates please visit http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb264729.aspx, Preparing for daylight saving time changes in 2007, and KB928388: 2007 time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Entry Find & Replace

entry 8 Nov, 2006 - 08:36 AM
As you may know, last weekend I moved dream.in.code to a new server. There are hundreds of files from multiple applications that have been combined to create "dream.in.code". Each one of these applications has links, paths, and other information that is server specific. In addition to changing paths, we also changed from sub-domains to sub-folders, so all the links had to be changed to reflect the new file structure.

There isn't a super easy way in RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise) to do a find and replace across multiple files, and even harder to do it recursively, but thanks to Gabe Anderson, I was able to make light work of all those paths and URLs:
CODE
for fl in *.php; do
mv $fl $fl.old
sed 's/FINDSTRING/REPLACESTRING/g' $fl.old > $fl
rm -f $fl.old
done


You can find this, and the recursive script here:
http://www.gabeanderson.com/life/2003/02/2...tiple_files.php

Entry Ok, now you can use id=

entry 25 Oct, 2006 - 12:11 PM
The Google Blog notes that they have updated their webmaster guidelines to be more up to date with their crawling and indexing technology. Since Google now is able to crawl and index URLs with parameters, i.e. dynamic URLs - they have removed the line that reads "Don't use "&id=" as a parameter in your URLs, as we don't include these pages in our index." Google still recommends keeping those parameters down to a minimum and calls rewriting dynamic URLs into user-friendly versions, "a good practice."

Entry Degrees Online in 15 months?

entry 16 Oct, 2006 - 11:01 AM
I've been thinking about going back to school to get my Bachelors Degree. I currently have my associates in Web Technology. I filled out a few forms at Education Provider, but was particularly interested in Colorado Techs software systems engineering degree. Seems kind of different from the ordinary comp sci degree, maybe more theory?!

If you're looking at doing your degree online, go fill out the form and let me know what you find out. I'm still a few months away from making a final decision.

Entry Wanna Know A Secret?

entry 6 Oct, 2006 - 10:53 AM
Since nobody reads my damn blog, except you and my mom... I'm going to give you a little insider info. For the past few weeks, the dream.in.code team and I have been working to come up with some kick ass stuff to give away, today I announced we'll be doing a monthly giveaway of 1GB USB Thumb Drives. These are kick ass, I'm going to be ordering them at the end of this month, we'll probably have 50 to give away, so you'll see these popping up for contests, random giveaways, in addition to the monthly code snippets and tutorial giveaway.

In addition to the thumb drives, we are working on getting 50-75 T-Shirts printed up with a kick ass design and the dream.in.code logo, these will be printed on orange shirts and given out FREE to anyone with 500+ posts.

And, the final thing I can't actually say because not even the team knows about, but I will have a couple extra to give out during the next few months (After christmas) and I can assure you, you will be the envy of every geek on the block if you manage to get your hands on one of these bad boys... which I can't mention yet wink2.gif

Entry FrontPage Is Dead, Long Live Frontpage

entry 5 Oct, 2006 - 07:02 PM
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After nine years of being an award-winning Web authoring tool, FrontPage will be discontinued in late 2006. We will continue to serve the diverse needs of our existing FrontPage customers with the introduction of two brand-new application building and Web authoring tools using the latest technologies:

# Office SharePoint Designer 2007 for the enterprise information workers and
# Expression Web for the professional Web designer.

details from Microsoft.com

Entry Don't use &id=

entry 3 Oct, 2006 - 02:47 PM
This isn't new information by any stretch, but I was talking to someone today and had to remind them that when creating a web based application, you shouldn't use "id" as a URL variable. Google will not crawl URLs or Links that have &id= in the URL. This is because of the way a lot of applications handle sessions. There are lot of other useful technical and webmaster guidelines to follow when making any web page or web based application. You can find information about the "id" variable, and more at the Google Webmaster Guidelines.

Entry Google Adds Tabs to Customized Homepage

entry 14 Sep, 2006 - 12:45 PM
Google has added "Tabs" to their customized homepage. You can add total of 5 tabs (4 including your default). Dragging widgets from your default to new tabs is easy, but I'm a little dissapointed there is a page reload to jump from tab to tab.

Entry Swamped

entry 7 Sep, 2006 - 07:13 PM
I have been completely swamped at work the past couple weeks. I'm even at home right now reading over user manuals in preperation for a software demo in the morning. I've been put on a tiger team to evaluate and recommend a solid data collection and analysis tool for my organization as well as configure and demonstrate a real time collaborative environment. Both of these projects require me to work from a computer with no internet access so I haven't had much time to keep up with things on the ole' interweb.

I've learned that no matter how cool it can be, java is ALWAYS a pain in the ass no matter what. Even when 99% of stuff works, there's always that one applet that won't load no matter what you do. It's either the wrong JRE, some sort of connectivity issue, or something unknown to even the developers. The bottom line, Java is cool, but damn does it suck sometimes. I'm not even talking about the language, just what some companies have created with it.

Hopefully next week things are a little less eventful. It'll be nice to have a slow week before things pick back up again. I was informed last week that I'll be traveling to Atlanta in late October to a conference, so I need to book tickets and get all the pre-arrangements for that put in motion.


Entry Are you a stats junkie like me?

entry 22 Aug, 2006 - 08:29 AM
I've been using Google Analytics since the day it was released, but most people didn't get to it fast enough and got stuck having to wait almost a year for an account. Last week google finally opened it up to everyone. If you have a web site and you want to learn more about where your traffic comes from and how to improve and market your site... you must use google analytics.

For those that don't know, it's a free, 3-line piece of javascript you slap on every page and it tracks all your visitors and traffic metrics. Then reports them in a kick ass form that even a dumby like me can understand.

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