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Tell Internet Explorer 8 Beta to show your site properly using IE7

For those that want your website to render correctly on IE8, the recent newsletter gave a great example for enforcing IE7 compatibility via a Meta tag. (You can see the new IE logo above) Per Site Basis: Site owners and administrators can include the following custom HTTP header to display all pages...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 06-04-2008
AutoRuns for Windows - Diarrhea never felt so good!

It's hard to believe that the Sysinternals group at Microsoft are on their 9.02 version. For those that didn't know, Sysinternals used to be it's own company, until Microsoft recognized how important they were and bought them out. I hadn't ever heard of the AutoRuns application until...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 01-24-2008
Dallas TechFest 2008

The date & location is set! May 3rd at the Addison Conference Center in Addison (Dallas suburb) Texas. This event used to be known as the Dallas Code Camp. I'm actually really excited by this event, since befitting the DFW area's size, it will finally have a free technology event just as...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 01-15-2008
Winner of 6th place at Community-Credit.com

I wanted to thank David Silverlight for doing a wonderful service to the programming community. For my involvement in the world wide programmer community, I was awarded the 6th place prize of a "Chuck" TV show T-shirt that says "My Entire Life" on a 3.5" floppy disk. David created...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 01-02-2008
Geeks are the new Chic

I came across an interesting video on the Today show. I would share the link, but their I couldn't get their app to work correctly. You can go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22408386#22216642 and look for the Dec 12th video on "Why women love Geeks". Evidently we are the new...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 01-02-2008
Community Credit - They give stupid prizes to smart people

In my last post about joining the geekswithblogs community, I mentioned the Community Credit folks. The wonderful thing about the GeeksWithBlogs is that it automatically submits blog postings for community credit. I had originally thought I wasn't going to bother with it, after all who wants to enter...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 12-30-2007
Founder of Yahoo! Groups dies in airplane crash in Panama - 12 yr old survives

Michael Klein's plane was found on Christmas Day containing the bodies of his 13 year old daughter, pilot and himself. Michael Klein was the President and CEO of eGroups, Inc. before it was sold to Yahoo! in 2000 and is now known as Yahoo! Groups. He was traveling to or from his personal eco resort...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 12-26-2007
Software Developers Beware of Sales Tax

Of the many things developers must be careful of, you would least expect sales tax to be one of them. One of the first things I researched when starting my company was sales tax. Each state is different. Let me repeat myself, each state is different! However, the following is my interpretation of how...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 12-11-2007
You can now follow me on Twitter

I've really gotten addicted to Twitter today. Using TeleTwitter has made it easier to update and reply to people. Basically it's Blogging and IM merged into one. You're just limited to 140 characters. http://twitter.com/vonlar

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 11-07-2007
Twitter enabled

http://twitter.com/vonlar I've tried to start using Twitter, since everyone I know practically uses it! I've also updated the website to work with twitter as well thanks to a cool Community Server twitter module. http://code.google.com/p/community-server-extensions/wiki/TwitterModule Jay Smith...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 11-05-2007

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