John Dyer

Mobile Phone Text Messages I've been implimenting instant messaging alerts for assignment due dates. I first looked up the addresses for email-to-SMS for phone messages. I found this short pageContinue readingSMS Gateways and Instant Messenger APIs for .NET

Should be released by Friday, January 6th, 2006. Mac FF issues WebResource.axd issue ASP.NET 2.0 Designer problems Remove Server name from URLs (ssl and port numbers don’t work) <TEXTAREA> tagContinue readingFreeTextBox 3.1.2

We’re building a new CMS that tries to do away with any *.aspx ending so that we have prettier URLs that are more “hackable” (Jakob Neilson’s term). In IIS, weContinue readingGetting rid of aspx extension?

I have begun planning for integrating several separate login systems under one authentication server. We don’t want to use MS Passport or typekey (though this kerebos article looks nice) and some ofContinue readingSingle SignOn with ASP.NET Membership and WebServices

Google released Google Analytics (a website metrics tool based on Urchin) only to remove the ability to add new sites when it recieved too much data (cnet article). There usedContinue readingGoogle Analytics "Hack" to Add More Sites

I am writing some automation tools for transcribing and indexing a series of audio files (i.e. podcasts). The Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1 is great for speech-enabling desktop applications and addingContinue readingTranscribe Your Podcasts with Microsoft Speech SDK

If you happen to use Flash 8 JavaScript communication (which completely rocks), make sure you don’t put the Flash object/embed tags within a <form> tag or else IE will freakContinue readingFlash 8 JavaScript Communiation: Problems with IE and ASP.NET

Bug fixes and ASP.NET 2.0 final. Native ASP.NET 2.0 version now included (not Beta 1 or 2) BUG: fixed problems when FreeTextBox was in a INamingContainer (such as a MasterPageContinue readingFreeTextBox 3.1.1 Released

Thanks for those of you that sent emails and such. I had quite a fiasco with the Dell techs, but yesterday they finished replacing the motherboard and power brick andContinue readingMan (and machine) Back up!

I was almost finished with some fixes for 3.1.1(including problems inside repeaters and programmatically declared FTBs), but I caught a bad flu this weekend… and my primary dev machine isContinue readingMan (and machine) Down: FreeTextBox 3.1.1 Delay