I’ve been looking for something that can aid me in converting doc files and other formats to html, or some internal representation that I can do additional parsing on server side, and have come across some interesting applications such as PurePage, ConvertDoc etc. These are great, and have some nice, simple and effective API’s but unfortunately [...]
Registration for the UK iteration of the MIX conference which was held in Las Vegas earlier this year has just opened. There is a substantial discount on registration, currently at £199, but going up to £299 on the 10th August. Well worth it by the looks of the current agenda!
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Here is a great blog post on how to install the DotNetNuke source on a Vista machine and get it up and running through an assumed Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista which saved me a lot of hours of frustration! The main issue I had was configuring my IIS7 installation, it turns out that simply installing [...]
Tagged dotnetnuke, iisIt seems there are some issues in installing Moodle 1.8 on a Vista machine. Using the documentation available from the Moodle wiki I managed to get up to running the install.php script, up to entering my database details which I had created using phpMyAdmin. On clicking next the whole process seems to time out and the browser just gives me [...]
Tagged moodle, vista, xamppI’ve just recently come across a bit of software called WebGuide which gives your Media Center box some great functionality. I’ve always wanted to be able to remotely queue up recordings from the guide and this program (based upon a lightweight ASP.NET web server called Cassini, impressive in itself) does exactly this, and a whole lot more.
You can also stream live [...]
Tagged media center, webguideLast weekend myself and a few other Student Partners, Representatives, MVPs and the academic team from Microsoft went to the Metallica gig which was part of their ‘Sick of the Studio ‘07′ tour which happened last Sunday. What impressed me was the rapid change-over as Live Earth had been on the night before! Anyway, it was fair to say I [...]
