December 2007 - Posts

• Welcome VBMobile to ILoveVB.NET

  Lou Vega (aka BrainThump) has recently set up a blog and project forums for his VB.NET work with Mobility. You can find his project blog here and the project forums here. Welcome Lou! Posted Dec 21 2007, 11:47 AM by admin with 1 comment(s) Filed under: vb.net, new, Mobility

• Google Ads

  If anyone hit the site around 11:30 CST tonight, you may have noticed google ads were turned on (for about 5 minutes.) They're currently turned back off again. I haven't decided whether I'm going to run them or not. I'm not crazy about how they look and I'm less crazy about the "you too can get a date" type content. I know all of this is configurable in some way, shape or form, but since I dont have the time right now to mess with it on the google end, I'm leaving them off until I do. Posted Dec 19 2007, 12:42 AM by admin with 1 comment(s) Filed under: adsense, google, advertising

• file uploading working again

  Thanks to the nice folks at OrcsWeb (and the helpful forums at Telligent) the file uploading problem has been fixed, so I'm uploading the samples as Zip files again. Basically the problem involved IIS compression and the CommunityServer custom handler for files. We turned off IIS compression and the problem went away.   Posted Dec 18 2007, 11:48 PM by admin with no comments Filed under: IIS

• ZIP vs RAR

  For the time being, I'll be uploading samples in RAR format instead of ZIP. The reason for this is that for some reason, I'm unable to consistently upload valid ZIP files to Community Server. I've tested the files locally and sent them over GTalk to other people who could open them with no problem. When I upload them to Community Server, they get changed. (I've tried this literally 40-50 times) Sometimes it works after the 5th or 6th try, sometimes not at all. It's incredibly frustrating. Basically what happens is the root folder of the ZIP archive appears to be losing its information. If you extract it and add a ZIP extension, everything opens fine. That's not really an elegant workaround though. The odd thing is, RAR files don't exhibit this problem. So, for now, I'm taking that option. Posted Dec 03 2007, 12:13 AM by admin with 2 comment(s)