ASP.NET: Hide Menu Items by Role with Security Trimming

ASP.NET makes authorizations and security fairly simple with its roleManager, Authentication, and SiteMap providers.  This quick hint only covers how to hide a particular menu item from the standard Menu and TreeList navigation components when using a SiteMap provider. Read the rest of this entry »

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WordPress: Add Scripts to the Pages You Want

WordPress makes it very easy to load Scripts into your blog. The beauty of the method that WordPress provides is that it allows plugins and themes to use the same script at the same time by ensuring the script is loaded only once.  

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WordPress – Can’t Automatically Upgrade to New Versions?

wpSo, another security fix comes out for WordPress…2.8.6 this time.  And I begin making the rounds to my sites upgrading.  This is now a ritual for me since some kind hacker hacked me with the 2.7 hidden admin user exploit.  Everything is going smooth…I’ve done 3 sites, when I get to a new site I’m working on, and it will not automatically upgrade for anything. Read the rest of this entry »

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WordPress ReWrite – new Plugin Coming and a Hint

First of all, let me start by saying that Custom ReWriting in WordPress has consumed way more of my time than it ever should have.  I have prayed and pleaded, even considered asking one of the WordPress Gurus on their message board, but I’ve not had much luck getting responses there (questions were probably so esoteric that nobody cared but me ;-) ).

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard – NotificationExec Pop Up Annoyance

snowleopardJust installed Mac OS X 10.6 on my home iMac. It was truly a perfectly painless experience…click about 4 buttons and type your password and walk away for 45 minutes.

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Dilbert – Successful Work Avoider

My gosh, these are good!  Enjoy!

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.1

wpI’ve upgraded three sites to WordPress 2.8.1.  None of them missed a beat.  Also, PhotoSmash seems completely unfazed by its new bedfellow.

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SAP – How to Block a Profit Center from Posting

sap_logoBlocking a Profit Center from posting in SAP should be easy, right?  Well, it is, but there is one little trick you need to know, or you will spend hours trying to figure out why you can still post to your supposedly blocked profit center.

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