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PHPAnywhere is a new service that allows editing code from any computer, but it raises grave security concerns. [More]

Media RSS (MRSS) is an XML format which extends the RSS format. By using this format, a website can be enabled to provide rich media functionality. This can be used for images, audio and video. This entry discusses enabling Media RSS for images. Video is very easy to implement, but will not be discussed here. By using PicLens in Firefox, the result looks like below. It is very fast, full screen, and has nice facilities to scroll around the images, zoom in and out and other such things. Here I will discuss a simple implementation, and you can scroll below to download a small .NET application to automate this process. If you already have a Media RSS viewing application, then check out an example of the output (Note, copyright links were added after the page was generated). [More]

After upgrading Moodle, an open source Learning Management System, I started experiencing problems uploading SCORM objects. The specific errors I was getting were PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature, and An error occurs during package unzip (sic). Other error messages that can be caused by lack of disk space are An error occurred while copying the zip file to the course directory and An error occurred while backing up course start [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]

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]

Adding a search provider for your site to the Internet Explorer search bar is easy. This aartiole describes the process. Note that only Internext Explorer 7 and up has the search bar. [More]

Image gallery is a small application that takes all the images in a directory and creates a lightbox style AJAX image gallery that is web ready. It reads the metadata in the picture to extract the title, description, keywords and rating. Primarily I wrote this to experiment with some C# 3 features, such as LINQ. [More]

Googlebot reports that it crawls a website no more than every few seconds!!! [More]