Steven Ng

Is The “Enter” key not working for SharePoint search?

Steve — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:53:34 +0000

Blame it on those dumb hidden fields:

Place them between

and after “PlaceHolderMain”.

I spent hours trying to figure out the cause of this on Firefox, even tried writing some custom JS but in the end all i needed to do was include these in my master page!

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Trying out wordpress iphone app

Steve — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:53:52 +0000

Just testing all features of the wordpress iPhone app. So far it’s a clean interface which males it easy to navigate. I’ll take a pic and see how nicely it integrates. However previewing a post the layout rendering was a little funky. Overall it seems to work well and is a convienent app for posting from the couch.

Update: the app crashed when trying to take a new photo and attach it. Gonna try again. Funky markup was due to some ads, photo worked second time around but I guess you can’t position the photo. Also be sure to hit DONE to finish up your post and SAVE to publish.

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Akamai Secure Sreaming Flash Video

Steve — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:11:04 +0000

I recently had to work with Akamai Secure Flash Sreaming for on-demand videos and wanted to share some notes on how we got this to work.

You’ll need 2 zip files from Akamai:

Akamai Flash Media Kit
Akamai Secure Token Generator

Inside the Akmai Flash Media Kit you will have to open CS3SampleOnDemand.fla in Flash and edit the ActionScript. First declare a constant for the token:

CONNECTION_AUTH_PARAMS=”THEVALUEFROMYOURFLASHVARS_TOKEN”;

Then you will pass the autorization token to the Akamai object like this:

ak.authParams = CONNECTION_AUTH_PARAMS;

I also have a DLL with using the Type D Authentication from Akamai, please email me if you need it.

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SharePoint URL Shortcuts

Steve — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:38:27 +0000

Sometimes some projects visually hide the SharePoint navigation links so I wanted to list some here because I can never remember them:

Site Content and Structure - sitemanager.aspx
All Site Content - viewlsts.aspx
Site Content Type Gallery - mngctype.aspx
Site Features - ManageFeatures.aspx

More to come…

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Modifying breadcrumb seperators in SharePoint

Steve — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:31:09 +0000

It’s a small change, but I always forget how to do this so I’m blogging it! Locate the siteMapPath control in the Master Page and add a PathSeperator attribute shown in the example below:

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Lakers vs. Celtics Game 5

Steve — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:32:20 +0000

When the Lakers lost game 4 it hurt, I felt like someone punched me in the guy, kicked me in the balls and stole my wallet. But losing that game meant something bigger, it meant that every game from here on is an elimination game for the Lakers. I’m pretty nervous today and at this point will be happy if they make it to 7 games.

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Looks like i’m going with the G37!

Steve — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:26:21 +0000

Even though I wish the aptera was available to check out. Well i’ve negotiated what I think is an okay lease but still trying see what the best deal is since we’re in a little recession and gas prices are rising.

Here’s what I’ve negotiated so far, has anyone gotten a better deal?

2008 G37: Premium, Sport, Nav
39mo, 15000 miles
$900 due at signing
$536 a month

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Need help picking out a new car

Steve — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:40:17 +0000

In the last few years, cars are getting more horsepower, amazing styles and designs at reasonable prices. This makes it tougher for me to decide on what car I want, factor in cost, dealership headaches and proximity saturation (who else do I know that owns this ride) and it will take me forever to decide. But the longer I wait, the hot new cars will simmer a little down in price and of course a whole new fleet of hot cars will arrive.

Here’s my search criteria in order of importance:

Luxury coupe
Good tech package (touchscreen nav, bluetooth, ipod, high end sound system)
Over 250 horsepower
Under $45,000

Cars I have researched and are interested in (I know some of them may not fit the criteria):

Audi A5
Infiniti G37
BMW 335 coupe
Jaguar XF

Does anyone own any of these or know of any special pricing on these rides?

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Simple iPhone Traffic Checker

Steve — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:29:10 +0000

Everyone knows you can check traffic off of Google Maps built into your iPhone, but what if you don’t have 2 fingers available to pinch-out and see all the traffic conditions? My answer is the simple Traffic Checker (alpha) http://ragingminds.com/iphone/traffic which simply lists out traffic conditions within an area.

Just something I whipped up real quick for fun, I need to add some error handling and the ability to search by “city” and/or “state”. It’s using Yahoo Traffic Webservice and the ASP.NET 2.0 XmlDataSource. Please feel free to use it and provide some helpful feedback for the next version!

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Are the Rock Band drums too loud?

Steve — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:17:42 +0000

I just got Rock Band and it’s really fun to play, especially with a group of friends or online. I originally was hooked in Guitar Hero, however my new calling seems to be the drums! They’re definitely my favorite instrument to play over singing or the guitar. One thing I didn’t like about the drums was that I had to crank up the volume to offset the loud tapping noise they make. Luckily my buddy Devin told me about making some drum pads to dampen the sound, so we bought the equipment for around $30 and cut out some nice, colorful foam and felt pads that work really well! I can still whale on the drums and they’re not as loud so I don’t have to bother the neighbors with cranking up the volume.

Then Devin and I thought maybe other people playing Rock Band might want to upgrade with a set of these drum pads so we decided to sell them online for $25 and free shipping! If you want more info, check out Rock Band drum pads.

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