by William Forney | Aug 21, 2014 | Computers and Internet, Development
Yes, I went and did it. I converted my blog to MiniBlog. It is much lighter than BlogEngine.NET. I’m liking the HTML5 and it should be fun to tweak it out a bit more too. I’ve nixed some things, my old resume, the VS Achievements that only worked in VS...
by William Forney | Dec 16, 2013 | Development
I’ve been poking around at a lot of JavaScript over the last year or two and have been refining this layered architecture for setting up applications. The main idea behind it is to cover all the old bases in a way that also reduces the number of requests and...
by William Forney | Jul 6, 2012 | Computers and Internet
Flash has this problem where it will show up blank or green when using hardware acceleration to display video. You used to be able to turn that off in Flash options from the right click menu, but in IE10 you have to go to the Internet Explorer options’ advanced tab....
by William Forney | Jun 7, 2012 | For the Home
Have you ever noticed that furniture makers always make computer desks with those closed off little cubby holes for the tower? It’s about time someone told them computers need ventilation to work properly. I’ve seen countless computers overheat and die an untimely...
by William Forney | Jan 30, 2009 | Computers and Internet, Hyper-V, Microsoft
Recently I setup a Hyper-V Server and ran into a few issues around networking and setting up a virtual firewall with ISA 2006. It turns out that Hyper-V creates a virtual network adapter for the physical computer and plugs it into the physical adapter which is turned...
by William Forney | Jan 17, 2009 | Development
I’ve been playing with a REST WCF service for a bit and noticed when I attempted to add it to Azure’s service bus that it blew up on me. It even goes so far as to kill the development web server in VS2008. After a little debugging I traced it back to a small bug in...
by William Forney | Jan 17, 2009 | Microsoft
This is pretty obscure… EBS goes through its setup perfectly until it tries to install System Center Essentials, which we all know was invented by Satan himself because it never freakin’ installs correctly even by itself. So, if anybody reading this has any ideas...
by William Forney | Dec 25, 2008 | Entertainment
So here we sit on Christmas day watching TV or just being lazy. Many of you are watching kids with their toys running around the house. I find myself here at this old comfortable spot, with the TV on in the background, the coffee brewing and the chill air outside,...
by William Forney | Dec 13, 2008 | Skagit Young Professionals
I did a 3D Photosynth of our Heliotrope Hike. It has a 360 degree view of the high spot where we went. http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=23cc0b80-6899-44c1-94df-2b4374d24d98 Technorati Tags: Heliotrope,hike,Photosynth
by William Forney | Nov 27, 2008 | Skagit Young Professionals
This year I was on the Festival of Trees team with the Mount Vernon Chamber of Commerce and Skagit Young Professionals. Our team was made up of mostly women, so the theme is decidedly girly. It was Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend from the old Marilyn Monroe movie....
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