My High School friend Aleida has been living in Spain for a while now. She sends emails every now and then just to say how things are going - I hope she doesn't mind, I found these words...well, you'll see.

My thoughts and prayers are with you Aleida.

Nick Berardi asks:

It was pretty easy, I used some code that I modified from the original SquishySyntaxHighlighter component written by Adam Sills. The original code uses lots of [span style=] tags, and even uses javascript to collapse/expand #regions if you're using code written from Visual Studio.NET. I modified it to use mostly [font] tags and 86'ed the javascript, so it would show up in an aggregator better.

So I wanted to allow for this, right? What if I find something on the net that just begs me to post it, and I want to use the url as the source for my post? Well, it's insanely easy...but you still have to wire it up a little bit. From the article I found (using google, of course), I changed the source code to this:

1		private void txtUrl_DragEnter(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs e) {

2			if(e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text)){

3				e.Effect = DragDropEffects.All;

4			}

5		}

6

7		private void txtUrl_DragDrop(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs e) {

8			this.txtUrl.Text = e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.Text).ToString();

9		}

where txtUrl is the url I want to use as a source for my post. Set AllowDrop = true in the designer, and you're good to go.

My cousin finally got a weblog but I can't subsribe to it!

I sent these people an email asking them to at least include permalinks and a public rss feed. You have to join the site to do anything, even sign a guestbook.

I wasted a good part of an hour trying to find somewhere on the site that I didn't have to sign in to, and ended up sending the email to abuse. oops.

So am I wrong to want permalinks and an rss feed? Or should I tell my cousin to choose another provider?

Sorry ScottW.

Let's hope the third time is the charm.

Big Time. I've even talked about it before.

I'm really thankful that Tina listens to the boring .NET stuff I talk about - she even listens to me talk about the domain (O&G Exploration) which is decidedly boring-er than software, even to a layman.

Julien Ellie, you rock. In response to all the WinForms hubub yesterday, I asked for a higher limit on the file selection dialog (you can only select about 200 ATM). Julien said in my comments:

Well, I see that a KB article (820631) says this behavior is by design so I don't know how much freedom we have here. You'll understand that I can't promise anything, I am just a dev, but I'll make sure to look into it and ask questions about this. Thanks!

That is so slick. Julien, you may be just a dev, but that my friend is the correct attitude to have about it.

In the meantime, the only workaround I've found is enabling drag n drop onto a listbox for file selection from explorer. [edit]

Like to hear my feedback? I'd like a file dialog that lets me select more than 200 files at a time. With the people and companies I work with, it is a necessity. We deal with lots of files.

Thanks!

I've been using Mozilla FireFox as my default browser for a couple of weeks. I love it - for the most part. A lot of people don't design for standards, though. They design for what is the  standard, ie IE. Therefore, a lot of sites that I may browse from time to time really look horrible in mozilla, and I find myself opening IE and dragging a link there just to make sure my eyes haven't permanently squinted.

Those Days Are Over. Meet IEView, a “brain-dead simple” plugin for FireFox, but so effective I just know I'll use this every day. From the site:

 The ieview plugin is a simple Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox extension (for Microsoft Windows systems), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer. I use Mozilla 99.99% of the time, but there are those moments -- particularly when testing new pages, or when viewing that rare IE-only page that's actually interesting -- when I need to see what things look like in IE.

Tina and I just finished moving the last of our stuff from the old apartment to the new one.

We've almost got everything unpacked - I like it here. Thankfully we got most everything moved last night, so today was just a few things we carried by hand.

Yeah, we moved about 50 yards. The people in the apartment above the last place had a washer leak, and we bore most of the consequenses. Half of the walls in our bedroom (the washer & dryer connections are in the closet) were brown from the leak. So, rather than force us to live in a mold museum, the apartment management moved us to a different apartment in the same complex. As if you cared.

I'm sorry, reader.

I haven't posted to this thing in almost 2 months, and I'm sure that both of you are quite upset at me. So what's been going on with me lately? Let's see...

I started a little side project for posting to my blog from my desktop with a wysiwyg editor. I decided to stop working on it a week or two ago. Why? Well, there are a few tools out there already that let you do this very well, so I pulled resources on it for unoriginality reasons. You still want a wysiwyg editor? Try BlogJet. This is the one that made me say “it's been done”. There is no way that I could dedicate the time to make my little tool do anything super-cool that would make it a viable alternative, and it looks like no one but me wants to post to more than one blog at a time. Shame.

Other than that, I've been working hard at the day job. “Smart Clients”. That's taken a lot of my time - I ain't no WinForms programmer.

So, thank both of you for staying subscribed to me. I appreciate it, and I'll do my best to keep the content coming to you, desktop publishing tool or not.