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Archive for January, 2007

Moved Blog, New Theme

Friday, January 26th, 2007

I finally got some time to move my blog to the new dedicated server. The move it self was smooth and I also upgraded to the new WordPress 2.1 which has many lovely improvements. As usual, WordPress continues to improve but it keeps upgrades and those task really simple. Noteworthy is that WordPress help and […]


Monologue Bug

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Monologue has a bug that makes my posts to be displayed only the first time the worker process reads my feeds. I’ve tracked down the problem and I’m using this message to test my patched version, locally, and before sending the patch upstream. The problem is that either Apache or WordPress is not sending the […]


ASP.Net AJAX (Atlas) 1.0 Released

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

The former Atlas project has reached the 1.0 milestone and has been released today. From the Web Site: “ASP.NET AJAX is a free framework for quickly creating a new generation of more efficient, more interactive and highly-personalized Web experiences that work across all the most popular browsers. With ASP.NET AJAX, you can: Create next-generation interfaces […]


Domain/DNS Debugging On Windows

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

I’ve been working on the transfer of a few domains of my company to a new server. I’ve been having some problems and testing stuff is not always simple. Here are some of the commands and links I found very useful: ipconfig /displaydns Displays the Windows cached DNS ipconfig /flushdns Clears the Windows DNS cache […]


Ajax Envolving – Ajax SSL

Friday, January 12th, 2007

Today I’ve found something that could be very useful for webdevelopers that need some extra security without the troubles of configuring an HTTPS server. In fact, until recently, XSP didn’t support secure HTTP, and if it didn’t support it now, it would be even more useful. I’m talking about aSSL, a MIT/X11 Ajax library that […]


Recovering Windows Serial And The Dangers Of Windows Activation

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Almost everyone that had installed either Windows XP or Windows 2003, and now Windows Vista, will be familiar with Windows Activation to some degree. Windows Activation used the Serial provided by the user as one of the main factors used when validating a Windows copy, specially when a user wants to update the system or […]