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As a software developer, you know that best practices recommend testing and even staging environments. Evidently, DirecTV lacks that or is really missing something. Sometime today, they released a software update that sent nearly all of their HD receivers into some sort of lockdown. Their solution: hold down the reset button for 15 seconds, then ...

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Microsoft recognizes that it will be difficult to have all sites use the latest HTML and CSS specs that are found in IE8. To accommodate the web sites that cannot be converted at this time, they've created a work around. There are two options: a) you can modify the config in IIS 7 or b) you can add a new meta tag to your page headers. More ...

Soma just posted that SP1 for VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 is available. The full blog post on his site is at http://snurl.com/28i1z.

This isn't funny, but it is. It should be a daily WTF. Wally just sent me this forum post where someone deleted a little more than anticipated. It sounds like this guy can be in quite a lot of trouble... http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1263379&SiteID=1. I'd recommend setting up backups on your SQL server next time.

I needed Copy Source As HTML support in Visual Studio 2008. Luckily I came across this post today with a walk-through to set it up in VS 2008. I can't wait for Microsoft to get this into Visual Studio. Too bad there wasn't a Windows Live Writer add-on for it.

Wow. After 2 hours of pain and suffering, I ran into my own daily WTF. I had some script contained within a .js file in my web. Like many times before, I created a reference to the script in the header. However, the script would only work in the Internet Explorer family and not in Firefox. After some aggrevation (and my Starbuck's Pike Place Roast ...

I just spent about 4 hours trying to solve this really annoying error which only exists in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) over a Secure (SSL) page.  I just stumbled upon the solution and it was just so damn obscure I felt I had better write it down or it will be forever lost in the bit-bucket that I call my brain. Although my issue was related to ...

I couldn't make the MIX this year, but I can easily catch up on the content. You can too by visiting http://sessions.visitmix.com/.

IE8 Beta 1 now forces CSS 2.1 along with other web standards (includes some early HTML 5 stuff too!). I'm creating a list of websites that seem to be broken by the browser. Feel free to leave a comment if you come across other sites. Here's what I found so far (notice that only part of the site may be broken and not necessarily all of the ...