Melancholy Nonsense

Sharepoint Development

stephanie — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:54:53 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of sharepoint development lately and in the sharepoint getlistitems webmethod(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/lists.lists.getlistitems.aspx) there is a paramerter called folder. Rather putting the name of the folder there you have to put LibraryName/Folderмебели варнаmach zehnder modulator

Baby kittens

stephanie — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:22:33 +0000

This is me playing with Adobe Contribute. So far it’s pretty cool.

Even if there are really no baby kittens.

Forms Authentication Timeout

stephanie — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:32:03 +0000

At work I get to work on a lot of different applications that I didn’t write.One of the problems I’ve inherited was an application that was using forms authentication, which is kind of rare for our apps. And had a time out set in the web config. So of course I thought the time out was as simple as just changing the number in the web config. Nope.The timeout was actually being over ridden in the code. So after doing a search of the entire solution for FormsAuthentication I found the section that was overwriting the time out. It was set to 10 minutes. So unfortunately something that should have been just a simple web.config change turned out to be a code change. And idea but I found it here: http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2006/07/15/Forms-Authentication-Timeout.aspx

Extender Controls May Not Be Registered Before Prerender

stephanie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:33:03 +0000

I’ve been meaning to start blogging about technical stuff forever so here goes the first one.

Extender Controls May Not Be Registered Before Prerender

Chances are if you see this one you are missing a call to Base.OnPreRender(e) in the overide of the OnPreRender event. Adding the function call there will fix the problem. Apparently this wasn’t an issue in the first release of ajax, when I recieved it, it was after upgrading a perfectly fine app to the newest version of Ajax.

Here’s the link I found the solution at: http://aspnetresources.com/blog/controls_may_not_be_registered_before_prerender.aspx

If I could ask Obama One Question

stephanie — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:46:04 +0000

It would be “Are there any woman outside of your family that you look up to or admire?”

That would be my feminist litmus test. If he names a teacher from high school or elementary school then he’s pretty much going for the safe answer. A college professor would be better, but a famous women who held some sort of leadership role would be my ideal answer for this question.

I’d like to see if he would defy the convention that says it’s okay to admire men for being great leaders cause that’s what men are supposed to do but women should not be admired for such traits, and that having those traits would make her a bitch. If he could really walk the feminist walk, or if he felt he could just rise above such questions.

This primary season has focused a lot on gender and race. And if Obama comes out as the winner I think he might have a problem with some women being bitter at Hillary’s loss and opting out of voting on election day. If he’s truly the uniter he says he is I wonder what he would say to ease the sting of Hillary’s loss to those women or if he felt that he had to say anything at all and that they should just vote for him cause he’s the democratic nominee.

Digg Proves that Feminism is still Relevant

stephanie — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:02:05 +0000

Feminism is defined as the belief in the social, political, and economical equality of the sexes.

On digg there is an article about Swedish women wanting to change the law that would make a woman to be able to go topless at pools.

The majority of the digg commenters had two reactions. First one was yay for boobies (typical expected reaction). The second one was, but if we were able to see boobies all the time like that wouldn’t we become desensitized to them and that would suck, so they should keep them covered up.

In both reactions little regard was given to the women as people but only to their boobies and how much the men would enjoy them or get bored with them. Which would imply that these digg users see women only as sexual objects that exist for their enjoyment. Therefore social equality hasn’t been achieved if one segment of the population sees another segment as being there just for their pleasure.

Social aspects of life also factor into the political and economical realms of life. After all people ask voters “which candidate would you most like to have a beer with?” and consider that to be a healthy political dialogue. That alone is mind boggling. And getting to the top of the corporate ladder is considerably harder if you have to start at the bottom of the social one. Therefore feminism is still relevant and has yet to reach it’s goal of equality. As opposed to it’s detractors who claim that feminism has already achieved it’s goals in our culture and that it should disappear or just worry about other cultures.

Pornstar Banned From WoW

stephanie — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:47:14 +0000

Mia Rose a porn star who stared in World of W#$%$craft has had her account banned from wow after some one found out who she was and posted her website information in general chat on the server she was playing on. I guess she did an interview with kotaku regarding this, but I’m not sure if it had any information beyond that in it, since kotaku is blocked here at work. Nethera responded to a post about saying it was ToS violation, and the usual blah, blah, blah.

I’m conflicted on this one, the prude in me says “Yay for striking back at bad porn!” The First amendment activist in me says “Whoah, wait a minute she got banned cause someone else posted her website in general chat, that doesn’t sound right.” Of course I’m guessing there’s more to the story in a week or so we’ll probably find out she was also a gold farmer.

Update: Turns out it was at first an advertising thing then turned into an account sharing ban. Because she got the account from a friend paid for it, but was unable to change the name on the account.

I love Jon Stewart

stephanie — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:42:42 +0000

Why aren’t the two versions of Dick Cheney being played on every network news channel? It’s funny how all of this seems so obvious but it’s blatantly ignored.

Online Radio Is Saved; SoundExchange Will Not Enforce New Royalty Rates

stephanie — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:35:08 +0000

I just spoke with Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora, and he told me a SoundExchange exec just promised — in front of Congress — that SoundExchange will not enforce the collection of webcaster royalties under the new rates that would have driven many of them out of business.

Great news for internet radio, and it makes me glad that I actually took the time to call my senators and representative yesterday.

The Internet Radio Equality Act

stephanie — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:47:58 +0000

So the denied the plea to delay the massive royalty hike that could easily devestate webcasters, such as my personal favorite, Pandora.

So the only choice left is to bombard senators with calls to advocate the Internet Radio Equality Act.

I called both Arizona Senators McCain and Kyle, and neither have yet taken a position on this issue.

I called Congressman Mitchell as well and found out he already is a co-sponsor of the bill. Woot!

If anyone else is calling their senator I’d love to know the responses that you are getting. To get the numbers for your representative go here:

http://www3.capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/alert_9738601.html

Also they have a nice script that you can use to talk about the issue if you want. I know I always get nervous about what I should say exactly.