Category: Web

  • WordPress 3.8 is a welcome upgrade – nice admin fonts

    Just upgraded (went out Dec 12 but just saw it) to WordPress 3.8. Love the new admin interface (way better fonts). And as always, it’s great having to upgrade something and not have to worry about things being broken. Good job WordPress!

  • Something is up – my Alexa Rank dropped by 4 Million+ in past 3 months

    Happy New Year everyone! Nothing much I just wanted to share: * I ended up in alexa for various reasons and figured hey might as well check my rank and guess what I found – dropped from ranking around 4M to 8M in the world in the past 3 months. Don’t get me wrong, I…

  • Switched my blog’s social media plugin to AddThis

    Just wanted to share (ran into this) social media plugin and figured what better way to test it than use it in my site. So far so good. Impressive simplicity but powerful analytics (smart enough to show which channel/media the user uses to share often) It’s easy – just go to https://www.addthis.com/ then sign-up I…

  • blog site update

    I have recently consolidated some of the sites I maintain into one of my hosting accounts. (will post about the provider soon – so far so good) And that includes this blog. Along with this move I have also updated to the latest version of BlogEngine.NET – guilty of not being up to date for…

  • Register for Visual Studio 2010 Beta Exams (.NET 4.0)

    Time for (free) Beta Exams again Information can be found from here http://blogs.technet.com/betaexams/archive/2010/03/17/register-for-tools-utilities-2010-beta-exams.aspx Register via http://register.prometric.com For easier reference, exams available are listed below (along with PromoCode) Exam 71-511, TS: Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 – 511BC Exam 71-515, TS: Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 – 515AA Exam 70-513:…

  • Safety settings on this machine prohibit accessing a data source on another domain

    Encountered this message many times with sites using PivotTable component of OWC11 (office web components) “Safety settings on this machine prohibit accessing a data source on another domain” This is a browser restriction (at least with IE). Before resolving this, make sure you are accessing a trusted site. Resolution: 1. Add site to the zone…

  • Philippine broadband connections affected by damaged pan Asian cable

    From SMART/PLDT: Telecom services provider Smart Communications said a pan-Asia cable cut early Wednesday caused adverse disruptions in its international and broadband services. In a statement, Smart stressed the disruption affected its international voice and SMS services. Its Smart Bro and Smart Bro Plug-It services are also affected by the cable cut, which was reported…

  • Upcoming Blog Topics

    Some of the topics to watch out for soon (have been in my queue for sometime). In no particular order. Soon, but if you have issues related to below and might need additional information feel free to contact me. * AJAXControlToolkit ModalPopupExtender, Google Chrome and z-index * delegate/anonymous method cannot be deployed to SQL (SQL…

  • philippine domains limited one year registration offer

    ** Philippine (.PH) domains are now available for one year registration (as opposed to being previously available in two-year registrations only). But only for a limited time so grab your .PH domains by clicking HERE now. [more] We are now offering one year domain registrations at $38.00 for a limited time (March 10, 2009 to…

  • Link: IE 8 Release Candidate 1

    "Internet Explorer 8 has been designed from the ground up to be enterprise-ready.  It helps reduce security risk through features such as a cross-site scripting filter, the SmartScreen® Filter, and safer controls and management of the Microsoft® ActiveX® technologies, platform, controls, scripting, and server framework. And when you download the latest RC1 software, you're automatically…