http://www.billrowell.com Welcome To My World Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:34:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en billr578http://feedburner.google.com This annoyance goes right up there with sites that play music when you visit them. ESPN, for Pete's sake, stop having your stupid video's auto play when I load one of the pages on ESPN.com. I don't care to hear them. I don't care to watch them. ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/billr578/~3/4jUYbU9u0GI/ http://www.billrowell.com/2009/07/12/dear-espn-com-please-disable-auto-playing-of-video/ I had a revelation recently about the Google rankings for one of my sites lately. I've actually been frustrated with the lack of and drop in ranking for important keywords we used to rank well for. I think its pretty clear that Google's index changes fairly often, but ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/billr578/~3/tD6blUsyeAY/ http://www.billrowell.com/2009/06/18/google-site-rankings-related-to-site-colon-results/ In a previous post, I eluded to the fact that I remove the ViewState from our ASP.NET pages to improve performance. I can't take credit for coming up with the idea though. Originally, I got the idea and solution I wanted to implement by reading this article at ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/billr578/~3/ciLRNx8Pb74/ http://www.billrowell.com/2009/06/17/remove-viewstate-from-asp-net-page-to-improve-performance/ I'm on a roll the past week it seems with fixing or upgrading my MacBook. So I've decided to wrap things up with upgrading my internal hard drive. I've noticed that my MacBook is kind of sluggish lately, especially when booting. I was also running out of ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/billr578/~3/kx9vJEb_LBg/ http://www.billrowell.com/2009/02/09/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgraded-seagate-momentus-320gb/ I've had my 17" MacBook Pro Core Duo for 2 years now and I don't have a single bad thing to say about it. However, probably starting 6 months ago, the left fan started to make a lot of noise. It sounded like the bearings in the fan ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/billr578/~3/DEYO1tZ2I0g/ http://www.billrowell.com/2009/02/09/replacing-the-fans-in-my-17-macbook-pro/ I've been having some issues with power to my Apple MacBook Pro 17" Core Duo laptop recently. There have been issues with the fans for quite some time, especially the left one, so I thought that might have been part of the problem. The left fan was especially ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/billr578/~3/S6-m1ALxlb4/ http://www.billrowell.com/2009/02/09/apple-macbook-pro-17-core-duo-swollenbattery/ Anyone who has used or is still using pMachine for their website and forum knows that its outdated and a pain to use. Today, there are tons of alternatives to content management, blog management, and forum management that you can find the best tool that works for you. ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/billr578/~3/aQqjrGt_gf4/ http://www.billrowell.com/2009/01/21/migrating-a-pmachine-website-to-wordpress/ So I was over on Slashdot last night looking for something interesting to read and ran across this tidbit about the new whitehouse.gov site that runs on ASP.NET. Honestly I think the only reason this got mentioned on Slashdot is that yesterday was Inauguration Day. Any other day ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/billr578/~3/afXtH0fqAsQ/ http://www.billrowell.com/2009/01/21/aspnet-site-whitehousegov-reviewed/ Seeing your web site rank well in the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) is something that every web developer strives for. Making sure your web site's pages are search engine friendly is a huge part of that effort. With ASP.NET, pages typically end in the .aspx extension. ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/billr578/~3/A8K-_iw5eBM/ http://www.billrowell.com/2009/01/20/url-rewriting-in-aspnet-isapi-rewrite-vs-urlrewritingnet/ Recently, I discovered I had some weak wireless signal in certain areas of my home. My first instinct was check out BestBuy or some other online shop for a Wireless Repeater only to find that I'd be spending a minimum of $90 to get the device. Yuck. ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/billr578/~3/Nd8K3oyVLzM/ http://www.billrowell.com/2009/01/20/linksys-wrt54g-as-a-wireless-repeater-using-dd-wrt/