UPDATE: I should found out that in ASP.Net 3.5 the <customErrors> section in web.config now supports the attribute redirectMode which default to ResponseRedirect but can be changed to ResponseRewrite. This will force the proper HTTP status codes to come through for errors. So I launched a new site porting it…
Month: April 2009
Want Arial Narrow Bold or Italic?
Office 2007 shipped several weights of Arial Narrow but apparently Microsoft made a mistake in the font meta information that causes Adobe products to only recognize Arial Narrow Regular. You can find more information here and also find the relatively painless method of obtaining the hotfix or you can use…
Map file extension to ASP.Net
I’m converting a site from static HTML to dynamic ASP.Net but I don’t want to rename every page or worry about dropping in pages in the search engines. So I decided to just map HTML files to the ASP.Net processor. I could have sworn that I had done this before…
clr20r3 error
Ran into this error recently on the system that I moved. My problem was that the program was running under a different user account which didn’t have the needed Adobe InDesign PDF export presets loaded. When my app tried to export a PDF (with no error handling) the system threw…
How to add metadata to Facebook link
When you post a link in Facebook, Facebook scans the page that you’re posting and looks for certain tags to tell it what the links is about. Unless you’ve setup your site with special markup, however, Facebook will just grab the page’s title and the first paragraph or two of…
Mass find and replace
So, you need to do a massive find and replace but don’t have VS or Dreamweaver installed? Here’s a sweet little freeware app to do that: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/bkreplace.html (I think there’s a newer version under a different name, too)
SQL Server 2000 w/o the GUI
Okay, not totally, but this process starts without the GUI. I had two SQL servers, one without the GUI tools installed. In a domain environment this is fine because you can just snap to the machine using your domain credentials. If you don’t have a domain and forgot to create…
XDocument, FileStream and UNC Paths
We moved two servers yesterday that were originally part of a Windows domain. At the new place the domain would no longer exist (we also transffered ownership) so we removed the machines from the domain and set them to be part of a standard workgroup. For the most part this…
Hyperlinks not working in IE6
If you’re using Internet Explorer 6’s proprietary filter CSS property to apply a transparent background image to an element that contains links you may find that the links don’t work anymore. I stumbled around on the net looking for an answer but everyone was talking about problems stemmed from absolute…