Wow!  The design, engineering, and thought that went into making this furniture is astounding. 

(via Core77)

I’ll be giving a presentation to the Eugene Area .Net Users Group (EADNUG) Wednesday, May 19th 6:00 PM at Northwest Community Credit Union.

I’ll be talking about Using CSS Frameworks with ASP.NET.  I did a quick redesign of the iTech Northwest site using 960gs and really enjoyed how simple the framework was to use.  When I designed and rewrote Boardroom Web, I used Blueprint.  So, naturally, I’m going to focus on those two frameworks.

Should be a fun talk.  Our May meeting is being sponsored by Red Gate Software, so be sure and stop by for a slice of pizza.  Don’t forget, we have great door prizes from Tekpub, ReSharper, and SQL Sets.

[Update]

Here are the slides, samples, and resources I used during my presentation.

I love the focus and attention to detail these folks put into making espresso.  Might be time for me to consider switching from my awesome fully automatic machine to a more fine tuned manual one.

Espresso, Intelligentsia from Department of the 4th Dimension on Vimeo.

I’ve always enjoyed djBC’s mashups, especially this one.

I spent some time today tracking down an issue in one of the web applications I manage.

I had a person trying to upload an image for their profile, but they were getting an error saying the file was either too large or not the proper file type.  I had them send me the file and I was able to upload it to my test system without a problem.

I reviewed the code and still didn’t see anything.  I eventually had them upload the file to another area where I store the .PostedFile.ContentType property.  Turns out, the content type didn’t match the ones that I allowed.

For some reason, when you’re using Internet Explorer (not sure if this is the same in other browsers) via Citrix, the content type will be:

JPG: image/x-citrix-pjpeg
GIF: image/x-citrix-gif

I have no idea why Citrix would create a new mime type, but they did.

Great video documenting one mans adventure.  Very interesting and exciting.

The Longest Way 1.0 – one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.

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Cool Hunting has a great post showing how Marco|Sea transformed dumpster’s into swimming pools.

I’ve also been looking at shipping containers turned into houses.  Seems like a great use for the massive amount of shipping containers left at various ports across the US.

I came across this great idea about the Highline – turn an elevated rail line into a park.  What makes this even better is that they didn’t have the skills to execute only their vision.  They just shared what they were thinking and allowed others to help in a very natural way.  Pretty cool stuff.

I made the decision to migrate this site to WordPress from Graffiti CMS.  I spent a little bit of time writing my own custom Graffiti CMS to WordPress export tool, shaping the Graffiti data to match the WordPress WXR format.

What I didn’t test prior to all of that work was, would WordPress work with Windows Live Writer.  I knew it supported XMLRPC, so I thought I was safe.  Turns out, there was an issue with posting images (or any attachments).

I posted a Twitter message and Brandon from the Windows Live Writer team contacted me to see if he could help resolve the issue.  I decided to look around a little more and found this great post, Fix for WordPress XMLRPC 500 Internal Server Error.

Turns out, newer installs of WordPress define a column in the database as a BIGINT UNSIGNED.  Older WordPress installs don’t setup the column in this manner and that’s what caused the problem.  The fix is simple.  On your WordPress database, run the following SQL:

ALTER TABLE wp_posts CHANGE post_parent post_parent BIGINT;

I tried it on a test install of WordPress and it worked!  I’m happy to post that I’m fully moved over to WordPress.

I have to get my own Auto Tune.  Check the comments on Vimeo for some out takes.

Auto Tuning from Casey Donahue on Vimeo.