http://www.thejackol.com 01100010 01101100 01100101 01101000 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:01:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If the AJAX CalendarExtender control shows up without any style information or in the wrong places, the simplest solution is to copy the original CSS for the Calendar’s default style (located at AjaxControlToolkit\Calendar\Calendar.css into your application’s CSS file. Also make sure the CssClass property is not defined in your CalendarExtender. ... http://www.thejackol.com/2009/06/23/asp-net-ajax-calendarextender-losing-styles/ More often than not, designers have rightfully been accused of retreating into their cocoons of ignorance as soon as their work of creating a web design is finished, leaving the dirty and more hands-on work of putting it up on the web to developers. This apathy is prevalent not only ... http://www.thejackol.com/2009/06/13/why-designers-should-learn-how-to-code/ My dad made a remark once that if you want to be good in sales, you can’t just believe that the glass is half full. You have to say with a straight face that a half-full glass is better than a completely full glass. Anyhow, my shop has generally good relationships ... http://www.thejackol.com/2009/06/08/dont-negotiate-on-your-estimates/ There are two ways to get LINQ to SQL results into a DataTable, as explained here. I use Sample II: public DataTable ToDataTable(System.Data.Linq.DataContext ctx, object query) { if (query == null) { throw new ArgumentNullException("query"); ... http://www.thejackol.com/2009/06/02/get-linq-to-sql-results-into-a-datatable/ When installing an IIS application on Vista, you may receive the following error: Error 1606. Could not access network location %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot\ To correct this error, you will need to make a quick change in the registry: Make a backup of your registry. Start | Run | regedit Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InetStp using regedit Change the key PathWWWRoot ... http://www.thejackol.com/2009/04/02/error-1606-when-configuring-an-iis-website/ One of the basic pillars of the study of human psychology is the analysis of the subconscious and conscious mind. Sigmund Freud was one of the first to clearly identify and characterize the ‘areas’ where our psychic energy flows. During the first part of his notable life he stated that ... http://www.thejackol.com/2009/03/27/the-four-stages-of-programming-competence/ I use DreamHost to store and manage all my Subversion repositories. When trying to commit a while back, I got this strange error: svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: MKCOL of '.../images': 405 Method Not Allowed Searching around, I managed to find a couple of reasons this could occur — wrong charset or ... http://www.thejackol.com/2009/03/24/mkcol-405-method-not-allowed-subversion-error/ Getting Spotlight to skip indexing particular folders in a fixed drive is as simple as dragging the folders into Spotlight’s Privacy Settings tab. However, in order to get Spotlight to stop indexing external drives (USB drives, external hard disks, etc), the Privacy Settings tab only disables it temporarily – when ... http://www.thejackol.com/2009/03/19/exclude-spotlight-osx-external-drives-folders/