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Life

LiberalHexum.org

Nick Hexum, the lead singer of 311, started a site for donations to go towards a cause.

From liberalhexum.org
“Our first goal is to fund research efforts and raise awareness of the effects of global warming.”

“For our first fund raising event I’m seeking sponsors to make a per mile donation of the 26.2 mile Los Angeles Marathon that I’ll be running in on March 19th. This will be my first marathon. I’d only be guessing at how long it will take but I know I will finish.” 

Im going to donate. And I think I might even donate the amount needed to get a signed T-shirt. This is really a cool idea and I hope it makes alot of money for the cause.

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Geeky/Programming

VS2005 ASP.NET 2.0 "Ambiguous Match Found"

Sounds like some dating gameshow, where you are of the winner..and the date you get is someone you just aren’t sure of. Anyways, if you see this error in VS2005 (asp.net), what I have seen it means is: you have some control variables decalred in your codebehind file, and they are also declared in the designer.cs file. To fix, just remove them from the codebehind file and it should build. If you are using Web Application Projects, I have also seen that using “CodeFile=” instead of “CodeBehind=” doesn’t work when you goto deploy. It seems that CodeFile wants the .cs file to be present, and I am guessing most people dont want to deploy their source code along with their aspx files. Happy Coding 🙂

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Random

MSN Messenger 8.0 Beta Invites (Part Deux)

Woah, I just got like 40 MSN Messenger 8.0 Beta invites to give away, if anyone wants one. Just drop a comment here with your hotmail/msn messenger address if you would like one.

Update: you dont need an invite anymore: go here instead http://ideas.live.com/signup.aspx?versionId=0eccd94b-eb48-497c-8e60-c6313f7ebb73

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Geeky/Programming

Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects

If you are using VS2005, and using the add on for Web Application Projects, you probably have hit Scott Guthrie’s tutorial One tip I can share: turn off optimizations in your VS2003 project before upgrading, or before you try debugging once you have upgraded, it will throw up an error. Other than that, most of the issues you will see will be from Namespace conflicts, or file naming conflicts (Profile, Roles, etc).

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Geeky/Programming

St. Cloud Times RSS Feed

Well, a while ago I wrote a program to create a RSS feed off of the St. Cloud Times website, but I let it go and stopped running it, but if anyone wants an RSS for the local news on the ScTimes, here you go

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Product Reviews

Ask.com Maps

I’d have to say that I am impressed with ask.com’s new mapping features. The imagery for Waite Park and St. Cloud area is better than google maps and local.live.com, or any I have seen so far. You can actually get somewhat close with satellite view and it isnt blurry!

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Geeky/Programming

Blackberry Debacle

I think it is funny to read about the whole Blackberry thing, where it might get shut off. I can see all the CEO’s running around worried they might lose their emails. I think if the majority of people who used a Blackberry had the experience to use a Pocket PC phone running Windows Mobile, or even a Treo running Palm, they would throw their Blackberry’s out. Using a Blackberry is like using Itunes. You get stuck to their server (or hack to get it working with out, with twice the overhead). A device like a Pocket PC 6700 from Sprint – Windows Mobile, built in wifi, bluetooth, and then with Sprint’s EV-DO internet, you are money in the bank. And since it is running a form of Windows, it is easier for developers to create programs that will run on the platform.

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Blogging

Feedburner

I setup my feedburner feed. I changed the main RSS links on my blog to goto that.

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Geeky/Programming

Visual C++ fatal error LNK1158 midl.exe

ok. Dang it I don’t like C++ and I was getting this error trying to compile a solution. Since searching in google doesnt give anything (do c++ developers use the internet yet?) I am posting this here for the next unlucky soul. What it means is that file is missing from an executable path or include path. What I did to fix was find midl.exe in another directory (C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio .NET 2003Common7ToolsBin to be exact) and then copied it to

C:program filesMicrosoft Visual Studio .NET 2003Vc7bin

and

C:program filesMicrosoft Visual Studio .NET 2003SDKv1.1Bin

and then my solution finally compiled. 🙂

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Geeky/Programming

.NET Execute Process with Arguments

if you are trying to execute a process in .net and trying to pass in arguments, and seem to not be getting anywhere, in the “start info”, set UseShellExecute = false. Worked for me 🙂