Warranty Elephant

I buy a few tech gadgets once in a while (okay whenever I have the money for cool toys). And sometimes my fancy tech gadgets break. And I wonder if it is still under warranty (or if I filed the warranty at all). Well, this Lifehacker WarrantyElephant article discusses a new website called WarrantyElephant that [...]

Posted Under: Hardware,Informat Technology,Miscellaneous
This post was written by dpx on June 28, 2009 Comments (0)

Using vim Buffers and Marks for Efficient Code Editing

I love things that make my programs act like vi when I need to edit or jump to things quickly. Among the vi addons I use are: viPlugin for Eclipse, viEmu for Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio, and Vimperator for Firefox. I was coding on a rather large project recently using Zend Studio [...]

Posted Under: Programming
This post was written by dpx on June 28, 2009 Comments (1)

Windows XP 64-bit with IIS 6 and ASP.NET 2.0 Websites

I had a hard time getting IIS 6 on my newly reformatted Windows XP Professional 64-bit to serve up ASP.NET applications. IIS was not installed by default, so I installed it through the normal control panel operations. Then I ran aspnet_regiis -ir, and figured that was that. When I added a virtual directory on the [...]

Posted Under: .NET,Microsoft,Programming
This post was written by dpx on June 18, 2009 Comments (0)