Rick Reszler

Facebook for Windows Mobile 6

Rick Reszler — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:26:25 GMT

New from Windows Mobile: a Facebook application for your phone! Download the new Facebook application for Windows Mobile and:

Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list.
Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them right to Facebook.
Send messages or call people in your Friends list.
Manage your profile and post anytime, anywhere.

Keep up with the latest news and posts with Facebook on your phone. Now your status updates can be up-to-the moment accounts of what you’re doing. Photos and videos are about as close to live-action as you can get. Show your friends what you’re up to, while you’re out and about.

Connecting and sharing on Facebook just got a lot livelier!

Download and More Info Here

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Finally Hosting on IIS7

Rick Reszler — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:09:00 GMT

It's been a long time coming but it's finally here! I am hosting my blog on Windows 2008 Server and IIS 7.

So far I love it, the IIS team really did a nice job with this version and I have been very anxious to host my sites using it.

Performance and Stability so far have been great I will keep you posted.

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Google's New Web Browser

Rick Reszler — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:39:48 GMT

I've been using Chrome Google's newest offering a web browser for about a week now and love it!

My favorite feature is Incognito Mode "Don't want pages you visit to show up in your web history? Choose incognito mode for private browsing." and I love the Dynamic Tabs "You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish -- quickly and easily".

So be sure and check it out and let me know what you think?

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SpaceInvaders

Rick Reszler — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:51:00 GMT

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How To: Change the Default Color for the Graffiti Skittlish Theme

Rick Reszler — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:20:00 GMT

For some reason I was scratching my head on this and even asked this of the Telligent Tip Master.

I guess this is partly due to the fact that I am still learning my way around Graffiti and mostly to do with the fact that I am more of a hacker then a dev. This is how easy it is to do and I hope it helps someone because I really love this theme!

Navigate to \wwwroot\files\themes\Skittlish\ and open up the app.js file.
Locate line 75 in the app.js file (in bold) change it to one of the other predefined colors for example I changed mine to cookie = 'fixed blue' I found the color names in the base.css file in the same folder. The choices are blue, cyan, green, orange, pink, red and violet.

/* el customizer */
function loadPreferences() {
var cookie = getCookie('skittlish');
if (cookie == '') {
cookie = 'fixed orange';
}

I also want to point out that this could all be done using just the site itself no FTP required. Just go to the ControlPanel -> Site Options -> Utilities -> File Browser then navigate to the path above and click on the app.js this will open up another page with an Edit button.

Technorati Tags: GraffitiCMS

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Xcopy Deployment Method

Rick Reszler — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:09:00 GMT

This is one of the greatest and most simplest tools\tips for upgrading or deploying site code which I use almost everyday.

Basically you are creating a new folder on the server and copying all the existing files and folders for your site to the new folder and the best part is this includes the permissions. Then all you do is re-point your site or virtual directory to the new folder and since the home directory path was set to new folder there is no need for an application pool recycle and you will never suffer the dreaded dll lock. Another great thing about this is you can roll back in a jiffy if needed which is really nice for that unexpected oops when deploying to production.

What I do is use the date for naming the folders which also makes it easy to remember when the site was last updated. So for example I would use 052808 for updating a site today. Create a batch file called newfolder.bat with the following command: just edit the path to fit your needs.

<xcopy C:\Sites\mywebsite\050808 C:\Sites\mywebsite\052808 /o /e /y /c /i

After running the batch file then deploy your updated site files to the new folder replacing any existing files and folders with the same name. More info can be found here in this kb.

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Manage Multiple Servers and PC's with Royal TS

Rick Reszler — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

If you manage several machines on a network or even remotely through the Internet you have to check out Royal TS!

Besides being able to connect and tab between active connections my favorite is the session info you can get on a machine. You just click get session information on a selected machine and it shows you any active or disconnected sessions and allows you to reset or send them a message. Now I ask you how many times have you tried to connect to a machine and were denied because of the maximum number of connections.

There are many more great features and the current build runs stable even on Vista so check it out and let me know what you think.

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Ahhh rest no, not REST but PTO

Rick Reszler — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:50:54 GMT

I am taking a couple days of much needed PTO and the funny thing is I have so much personal stuff to catch up that it will hardly feel like rest. But it will be rest for the brain anyway at least for a couple days.

New Photos Section

Rick Reszler — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:17:00 GMT

You may have noticed I now have a new Photos link in the navigation bar. Thanks to a really cool plugin created by Kevin Harder using Microsoft Silverlight and an opensource control called Slide.Show if you don't already have Silverlight installed then you can get it here.

I don't have many photos up yet but I will be adding some soon, oh and btw did I mention it's using my flickr account.

Retired Apache for Blackberry Pearl

Rick Reszler — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:39:00 GMT

I have had this awesome older apache (Verizon XV6700) for some time now and it has been great. Mostly due to the fact that there are hacks/ports to Windows Mobile 6 which normally only runs on the latest models, but this fact is also what finally starting to wear on me. I would spend a considerable amount of time keeping it working properly, which in the beginning didn't seem like much but now I felt it was getting out of hand.

After careful shopping, comparison, reading reviews and not to mention factoring in the financial aspect I decided on the Blackberry Pearl 8130. It has the new 2 megapixel camera with video recording capabilities, built in GPS and it's 3G capable so I can still use this as my backup mobile Internet connection for my laptop which for me is very important. At first it was so much of a change in the way it handles emails that I was not sure I liked it. I recently learned about the filters you can setup to control what gets forwarded to your Blackberry and how it's managed when you reply or delete messages. It really makes it the bomb for email. The new web browser on it rocks too it even does java.

So far I am very happy with my choice.