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So over the past couple of weeks I have been helping a user get up and running on a project I have developed called Managed Fusion Url Rewriter and Reverse Proxy. Now I understand that my project isn’t well documented, and I really need to work on that. So, until I get the time to better document the project, I willingly spend my time helping people through their issues. 99.9% of the time everything works out, and everybody walks away happy. However there is this 0.1% of the time that the conversation ends like this: ...

I found a setup that I like even better than my previous one. I have highlighted the main differences, in red, below. To set it up as repeater do the following: Do a 30 second reset Under wireless->basic settings: Wireless mode: AP Wireless Network Name (SSID): Your prefer SSID Wireless Channel: Your prefer channel ( Use channel with less interference from other access point) Save Settings Under Wireless > Wireless Security Set your wireless authentication Under Setup->Basic Setup: ...

This post is a reminder to myself in case I ever need to troubleshoot this setup process again, but I thought I would post it just in case it is useful to somebody else. A couple days ago I ordered myself a Linksys WRT150N to replace my aging Linksys WRT54G wireless router. I wanted to update my wireless capabilities to the latest 802.11 Draft N standard, so that I could take advantage of the speed boost when working wirelessly. However I had one problem the WRT150N will not run the Tomato Firmware. And I didn’t want to switch to DD-WRT for a couple of reasons, the most important being that I really like the Tomato user experience and it would be a pain to setup the router with all my custom configurations again. So I decided to try and have the best of both worlds and keep my WRT54G (old router running Tomato Firmware) as my gateway and turn the WRT150N (new router running DD-WRT) in to an access point on my network. ...

Wow that is a long title. Recently I have been looking for quick posts that I can put out each day to keep my blog relevant and also so I don’t feel like I am slacking off too much. Today I want to post about a little known feature in my .NET URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy (aka. Managed Fusion URL Rewriter) that I have developed in my spare time, mostly out of necessity for this blog and other projects I have worked on. Here is a quick run through of what it does. ...

If you are using FeedBurner to manage your feed, and you love DotNetKicks as much as I do, you can now easily add a “Kick It” FeedFlare to it. This will automatically add a “Kick It” link below each post in your FeedBurner feed. To get started you will need to do the following: Login To FeedBurner Go to FeedBurner > Optimize > FeedFlare Go down to the Personal Flare box. Copy it and paste this URL in to the box:</images/2008/04/dotnetkicks-feedflare-link.xml> Press “Add New Flare”. Then check the two checkboxes next to the new entry. Click “Save” at the bottom of the page. After all the steps above are completed you should have a FeedFlare example that looks somewhat like this: ...

I have been a huge fan of Fiddler the HTTP Debugging Proxy for a couple years now. However one thing that always bugged me about any network debugging tool was the fact that it could not debug localhost or 127.0.0.1. However I just found a solution while racking my brain for a way to debug one of my local projects. I don’t know if many of you are aware but the website http://localhostproxy.com points to 127.0.0.1 as a standard for URL examples. ...

This cheat sheet was compiled by Milan Negovan at http://www.aspnetresources.com/. It is very handy and I recommend everybody download it and print it out. Download: LINQ Cheat Sheet Document

Recently I change the network name of one of my servers at work, because the box changed its job from a virtual machine server to the database server. Everything was going great until I decided to setup the server for replication and received the following error message. New Publication Wizard SQL Server replication requires the actual server name to make a connection to the server. Connections through a server alias, IP address, or any other alternate name are not supported. Specify the actual server name, ‘old_name’. (Replication.Utilities) OK So with a little hunting and SQL queries I found out that SQL Server doesn’t use the network name, it only excepts that as an alias. My SQL Server instance was still named “old_name”. I found that out by running these two queries: ...

First off I would like to say that many of my readers are very intelligent, they picked up on a one line sentence in my last post about my new design and Coder Journal switching from Linux to Windows. I also moved hosts from GoDaddy’s shared Linux hosting. To GoDaddy’s virtual dedicated hosting on Windows. This proved difficult since URL Rewriting isn’t currently built in to IIS 6.0 like it is in Apache. I will talk a little about this setup in a later post. ...

New Theme My first major change was the development of my own theme. My old theme was clunky and overall I didn’t like the feel that it gave to my reader base. I became greatly discouraged looking for a new theme as most are more of a testament to art and less on readability and functionality. So I decided to create my own that had a very simple layout. Optimization of Load Time One of the things I hated about my other blog was the fact that I didn’t have control over how the HTML and thus JavaScript was laid out. Especially the JavaScript because I had duplication where I didn’t need it. The script that Technorati gives you is hardly optimized for load time because of duplication of a supporting script file. ...