I finally got everything squared away with my web host so that I could update WordPress and my plugins. We have been snapping photos like crazy on our weekend excursions, so I thought, “why not add a gallery?” So I installed the NextGen gallery plugin.
Use the photo tab above to navigate to the different photo galleries.
In my previous post, I lament the troubles I had with remote validation. I got it working, but I am a stickler and a perfectionist, so I had to have more. I wanted unobtrusive validation and I wanted my error messages to show up properly. I also did not want to use the Remote annotation because I needed to use localization, which I have not been able to get working (it needs static strings).
I did some more banging my head on the keyboard, then I realized I could just emulate what was going on with the Remote annotation. So, I made a new FluentValidation rule and went about it. I realized soon I was missing someattributes, but when I tries to add attributes with dashes MVC balked. “WTF?” I thought. Thanks to the power of the googles, I am now no longer left wondering. I found this great post that gave me just what I needed. The gist is that when you define a rule, if you add additional validation parameters, they will be preceded by the original rule name. For example, I made a rule for data-remote, and I needed data-remote-url. If I added a ValidationParamter for “url”, it would append that to “data-remote-” and all would work as planned. HOORAY!
I was doing some style updates for our CCNET server after switching to the liquidBlue theme (why is that not the default theme?) and I wanted some nicer buttons. I did a quick search and found this great article. It provides a bunch of color templates, though none of them seemed to quite match the color palette so I just opted to forgo the gradient in the button. Maybe when I have some more time I’ll take a crack at figuring out the colors for the gradients.
I don’t do much (if anything) in PHP, but I ran across this article as a StackOverflow answer. It illustrates how you can use PHP classes/objects in C#. Pretty good to know if there is something cool in PHP that I could possibly use it in C#.
We have some core libraries that a lot of other libraries depend on. While these change very infrequently, they were written a while ago and some refactoring is in order. The problem is I don’t want to have to doa lot of manual updating. I thought I’d look into automating Nuget packages.
The article has sample scripts which I’ll be able to adapt and setup to generate Nuget packages on build. I can then copy the packages to a local Nuget server ad then I’ll be able to set up the other libraries to use Nuget so they can easily get any future updates!
From http://www.howtonetworking.com/casestudy/tstimelimit1.htm
To set time limits for automatically disconnecting or logging-off a user from a remote desktop session:
I just started using Selenium 2 for some site testing. I used Selenium IDE for Selenium 1, but things are a bit different without that crutch. I am trying to use XPath selectors since I am using Webforms, and I am not real familiar with XPath. I found a great post on using Firebug to check your XPath. Now I can tet out my XPath and make sure it actually selects the proper page element before I run my test and bang my head against the wall!
Google Web Fonts
This is super cool stuff. I saw it a while back, but obviously I haven’t been blogging my tech finds for quite some time, so here it is. This basically brings typography to the web as a first-class citizen. I think I’ll have to go fine a cool font to use for my headlines…