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Amazon SimpleDB String Convert – C# DateTime to ISO8601 and back
1/13/2009 - Amazon stores everything as strings in their SimpleDB (strings = simple). Because of this there are some gotchas when it comes to string comparisons. How to compare dates? In order to compare dates you need to convert and store the date as an ISO8601 formatted string. An easy solution is to call a function right before you write to SimpleDB. In my case I call a function ... read more
| Amazon SimpleDB ASP.NET Membership Provider
1/13/2009 - Here is a very basic attempt at an Amazon SimpleDB / .NET Membership Provider. This code allows for you to use ASP.NET login web controls such as login, loginview and loginstatus. It works for my testing purposes, but I didn’t extend all values in the membership object, just a few: email nickname avatarlocation password passwordsalt lowercasedemail passwo... read more
| Some Fantasy Football Tips for 2009
1/11/2009 - I’ve only played Fantasy Football seriously for 4 years in two leagues, but in both I’ve been “lucky” to play in the championship game several times, having won 4 of them. Now “lucky” is in quotes because it’s true, it’s about the players, their match-ups, injuries, etc. Things that are out of my control. But there are ways to make your fantasy team lucky by following some useful... read more
| iText / iTextSharp – What It Can and Can’t Do With PDF Creation On The Fly For WebPages
1/11/2009 - While extending this site through BlogEngine.Net, I wanted to offer PDF versions of the posts. Creating a PrintView was fairly trivial (just remove CSS), but having a PDF generated has turned out to be a bit trickier than I thought. The requirements for me were that the API needed to be open source and compatible with C#. I have used iText before for getting the page count of PDF file... read more
| Why Did I Choose BlogEngine.NET ?
1/6/2009 -
Around Thanksgiving 2008 I realized that I hadn't done much with my personal website since 2003, almost five years. I wanted to do something, but didn't know where to start. Back in 2003, I used WordPress on a $10/month web host for a short time. While that was nice, I never kept up with the site and it went away about a year later. Prior to 2003, I never had a si... read more
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