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The description is used as the meta description as well as shown in the related posts. It is recommended that you write a description, but not mandatory [More]

Continuing from a previous post in which I added a Google Map of the visitors to my blog, this post will discuss how to take the same information and present it in a Visifire chart. Visifire is an open source Silverlight charting component which is very easy to use and well documented. [More]

This VSTO project creates a context sensitive dynamic help system inside of Microsoft Word, based on the current cursor location. For example, if the cursor is on an image, then help information would be presented regarding the business rules pertaining to images. I.E. what size can the image be, policies regarding alternative text for web publishing etc. The help information is presented in a custom task pane, and uses HTML. [More]

A lot of event log errors in dasBlog reporting Validation of viewstate MAC failed can be traced to spammers using bots to post spam on entry comments [More]

By combining the Google Maps API with an IP address host service such as HostIP.info, it is possible to present a map showing the current visitors to your blog, and to display them on a map. This implementation shows how to do this for dasBlog. [More]

A C# application to parse apache log files. This could easily be extended to parse other log file formats. [More]