Articles and Writings

Some I wrote up quickly to throw a sequential list of all the tabs (pages) of a Microsoft Visio document into a Shape (e.g. table of contents). Create your overview page Drop a shape onto the canvas Open the shape

Helpful Sql Scripts for Ektron CMS 400.Net A compilation of various SQL scripts I have acquired, modified or written myself to perform various tasks not possible through the workarea (at least as of 8.0). Disclaimer if you are downloading and

Ektron has a snazzy plug-in framework that allows developers to write applications that hook directly into the CMS event model, thereby allowing us to create our own logic that is handled inline, alongside, within the CMS's.

If you have installed the Ektron Developer SDK as part of your core platform installation, this service will run automatically and has a couple of default plug-ins (Google, etc.) that run after installation.

The problem is that out of the box, these modules are not configured, so every time someone does anything in the work area that causes the plug-ins to fire, you may get errors.

I have decided to consolidate various how-to's on configuringApacheIIS

andto run on the same machine but on different IP addresses.

While setting up another client esync configuration tonight we ran into the following error. It appears right after you click to add an esync relationship, before getting references to any local security cerficates in the drop down The communication object,

I ran into an interesting situation this evening while prototyping an Ektron upgrade for a client. After running the site upgrade utility on my local instance, the DB upgrade portion of the upgrade process failed miserably. A slew of pop

Anyone that uses Firefox as their default web browser and has the NoScript add on enabled (if you don't I would highly recommend that you install it post haste) can attest to the terrible implementations of web sites that do

Use the following methods to put an IIS web site into off line or maintenance mode. App_Offline.htm Static Override Page (prefered) Adding a file in the application root named App_Offline.htm automatically causes the AppDomain to recycle and modifies its behavior

This article explains how to enable SMTP authentication for outbound e mail in Microsoft Outlook. Open Microsoft Outlook 2007 From the ribbon menu click Tools | Account Settings… Click the E mail tab Select the account to be modified and

As one who is constantly having to deal with the web.config and on occasion the machine.config, I have found referencing the machine.config.comments indispensible. As such, I have decided to upload and host an accessible version the 2.0 configuration folder (C

Script to Start Stop All Running Ektron Services on Local Workstation Anyone that develops on Ektron knows just how resource intensive the locally run Windows services can be. After manually stopping and starting all three of them every time I

Last year I was approached by an old work associate buddy who needed someone to program a basic photo display web component that he could use with a WordPress blog site he was designing. Since I am pretty decent at WordPress,

Web Page Layout A web page layout refers to the structural design of a web page being served up on the World Wide Web. There are various key sections or components that make up the core layout of a web

Ran into a situation with root IIS applications sites squatting sub applications' configuration (HttpModule's specifically). Here is how to disable the inheritance. <location inheritInChildApplications="false"> <system.web> ... < system.web> < location> SectionInformation.InheritInChildApplications Property

setup onload function if(typeof window.addEventListener = 'undefined') .. gecko, safari, konqueror and standard window.addEventListener('load', generic, false) else if(typeof document.addEventListener = 'undefined')

I can count on one hand how many times I have had to do this over the past few years, but each time it takes considerable effort to "reacall" how to replicate. Apparently, by default, Windows Media Player enables what's

Never provide your personal information when responding to an unsolicited email request, no matter how legitimate the communication may look. Whether by phone, email or internet site, data created by phishers may look like the real thing. If you

While prototyping a custom DMS asset handler today I managed to locate actual instructions on configuring your own QuickLink handlers for specific assets. However confusing it may be that these instructions were found in the “Users Manual”, I am just

How to convert .NET DateTime to UNIX timestamp (as in PHP, etc.)int timestamp = (DateTime.UtcNow new DateTime(1970,1,1,0,0,0)).TotalSecondsand convert a Unix timestamp to an ASP.NET DateTime value DateTime date = (new DateTime(1970,1,1,0,0,0)).AddSeconds(datestamp)

One of the greatest features of Flash is the ability to encode video for online playback. For those that have not done this, the quick notes version Create a blank Flash movie (somewhere near the dimensions of the source video)

I ran across an interesting API library deep in the Ektron API framework that allows you to pull the actual localization tag (e.g. en US, en GB, etc.) for the current language type id of the site (e.g. 1033, 2058,

I have used the service controller command line tool for years. I have finally decided to write something up on it briefly since I have been working with various frameworks systems that are not completely removing their services after uninstalling

I have been architecting, designing, and programming Ektron CMS400.NET web applications for over a year now. Though not an expert, I feel I am to the point I can actually add value to other programmers architects who may be running

I ran into an issue when migrating a SharePoint Wiki list from one site to another. In creating a Wiki list based on a saved template (with content) the default home document was broken or not being set. So the