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  • PC Controls to Attend MIX2010 Conference

    2/9/2010 8:28:52 AM

    I am planning to attend the MIX2010 Conference again this year in Las Vegas, March 15-17. I attended last year as well and it was a useful and interesting experience.

    The conference has an interesting "MIX" of developers and designers. Although PC Controls and myself are more focussed on the development side, it seems you are always involved in the user interface and design at some level.

    I have heard other Minnesota techies / developers who are attending include Scott Davis, Jeff Brand, and Mike Benkovish. I would enjoy meeting and networking with any other Minneapolis / Twin Cities developers who may attend as well. Please contact me and let's get meet up at the conference.

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  • Website Search Issues Fixed

    8/9/2009 1:14:00 PM

    There were some major issues with the search box we use in the upper right corner of pages on this site. The Sitefinity CMS we use on this site has built in search and indexing capabilities, however we had it configured poorly.

    We have corrected an that was preventing the Enter key from firing the search.

    We have corrected a Javascript issue that was causing the text to disappear, and preventing the search text from being applied.

    We have enabled auto-indexing on the site's search indexes, so now content will be indexed nearly instantly when new articles and content is added.

    Sorry for any frustration or inconvenience. Happy searching!  

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  • Technocrati Blog Code

    8/2/2009 8:13:00 AM

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  • Minnesota Developers Conference 2009

    7/23/2009 11:34:53 AM

    I received news today about the Minnesota Developers Conference. I have not attended this event in the past, but am planning on doing it this year. It looks like an interesting, valuable, and fun event for developers. I have heard Mike Benkovich and Scott Davis speak at events in the past, and look forward to hearing more on their topics.

    Date: September 30, 2009 

    Price: $150 per attendee.

    Location: McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota 200 Oak St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

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  • Moving a Window back On Screen

    6/18/2009 1:45:39 PM

    Recently I had a problem in a demonstration to a customer where the window I wanted to show was off the screen. This is because I use two monitors on my docked workstation, but when I remove the laptop to use it remotely, sometime strange things like this occur. It extremely frustrating to have this happen in front of a group, and unless you've practiced these steps, there is nothing you can do to fix it quickly.

    I found this solution a while back, using shortcut keys, and decided to post it here.

    1. Select the program window you're trying to move, using ALT-TAB or by starting Task Manager.

    2. Press ALT+SPACEBAR on your keyboard, which brings up the program's shortcut menu. You can't see this, since the window is off screen. It may help to practice the procedure on a window you can see.

    3. Arrow down once, and hit Enter to activate the Move ...

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  • Table Width Issues in Firefox

    6/1/2009 8:06:00 AM

    Background

    I was asked recently by a customer to help correct some strange layout behavior that they were seeing in their website application using the Apple Safari browser. The client had been diligently building and testing their application using IE and Firefox, however a new user wanted to use Safari as well. When opening the site in Safari, one of the main div containers looked ghastly, and was pushed up and over the other two main containers that they had on the page. This behavior only occurred in Safari, not in IE or Firefox.

    After some investigation of the source and stylesheet, the culprit was a stray position:relative css setting in the stylesheet. The other two browsers seemed to make different assumptions about how to display the page, and it looked fine, since even with the relative position setting. Because there was no top or left position properties set, the ...

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