Un-Scratch an LCD Monitor
Thursday, September 2, 2010, 09:07 PM - Technology
I had a scratch in my LCD monitor from a recent move, and was totally bummed. It was over two inches long, and pretty annoying. A little googling came across this website on how to use a clean pencil eraser to remove it. I have to tell you, I had my doubts, but it TOTALLY WORKED! No more scratch, and it looks as good as new!
  |  [ 0 trackbacks ]   |  permalink  |   ( 2.9 / 94 )
NHibernate 2.x Beginner's Guide
Monday, May 24, 2010, 12:47 PM - Programming, C#, VB.NET, ASPX, CodeSmith, NHibernate
My book is finally out! After over a year of more work than I ever thought it would take, I was finally able to hold a copy in my hand on Friday!

You can pick up the book at the publisher's website, and for $5 more you can have the PDF version also: https://www.packtpub.com/nhibernate-2-x-beginners-guide/book

If you prefer, you can also pick it up at Amazon or Barnes and Noble

If you're interested, you can take a look at a sample chapter here, just click on the "Sample Chapter" button.
  |  [ 0 trackbacks ]   |  permalink  |   ( 3 / 59 )
NHibernate 2.x Beginner's Guide
Monday, May 24, 2010, 12:46 PM - Programming, C#, VB.NET, ASPX, CodeSmith, NHibernate
My book is finally out! After over a year of more work than I ever thought it would take, I was finally able to hold a copy in my hand on Friday!

You can pick up the book at the publisher's website, and for $5 more you can have the PDF version also: https://www.packtpub.com/nhibernate-2-x-beginners-guide/book

If you prefer, you can also pick it up at Amazon or Barnes and Noble

If you're interested, you can take a look at a sample chapter here, just click on the "Sample Chapter" button.
  |  [ 0 trackbacks ]   |  permalink  |   ( 2.9 / 1298 )
SSL Certs and Mono
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 09:53 PM
I was recently plagued with an error while trying to make a connection to a secure website using Mono. After several hours of searching I came across this site talking about importing trusted roots. Having seen this same issue on windows servers, I knew I was in the right area.

What I ended up doing was running mozroots --import --machine to import all of the mozilla (aka firefox) browser trusted roots, and then certmgr -ssl -m URL to get the actual cert and add it.
  |  [ 0 trackbacks ]   |  permalink  |   ( 3 / 1218 )
Selecting the correct language in Word 2007
Monday, January 25, 2010, 06:09 PM
I know everyone has a favourite language, and so do I. Unfortunately, I don't like to spell it favourite, because in the US we spell it favorite! Word 2007 refused to do this for me on a couple of documents I had, until I found this little trick.

1. Ctrl + a to select all
2. On the ribbon, click on Review then click Set Language
3. Select the language you need

done and done.
  |  [ 0 trackbacks ]   |  permalink  |   ( 3 / 1244 )

Next