ASP.NET – Get User Name Under Windows Authentication

ASP.netGetting the authenticated user’s name when using Windows Authentication with ASP.NET is very simple.  I just keep having to go back to Google or dig out an old project to remember it, so here it is:

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SAP: Functional Areas in Distributions & Assessments

sap_logoSAP allocations, or more precisely, Assessments and Distributions offer a lot of flexibility in their design.  So much so, that you can get lost in the details pretty quickly.  We recently discovered a flaw in our approach to distributing Gross Margin from non-sales profit centers.  The problem was that the distribution did not carry the Functional Area of the original postings.  In fact, it was posting the default functional area for revenue accounts (instead of using the FA of the Senders), thus skewing a couple of metrics.  Luckily, the fix turned out to be really simple, even if it had to repeated a couple hundred times ;-) . Read the rest of this entry »

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PhotoSmash Galleries Plugin turns 1,000

picture-5Even as I sit here trying to fix a thorny problem with PhotoSmash, I popped by the plugin’s page and noticed that it had turned 1,000 downloads on the nose. Let’s hope the next 1,000 downloads have it a bit easier. PhotoSmash is a WordPress photo gallery plugin lets you let your visitors upload images into galleries right inside your posts. It’s sort of a unique feature amongst galleries today, but I’m sure there will be some other excellent implementations on the same theme down the road. Anyway, thanks to all you who’ve tried PhotoSmash. You’re helping me make it better.

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Supple Forms – Quick Start Guide

This is a quick start guide to get you up and running with Supple Forms as fast as humanly possible. Supple Forms is a CMS plugin for WordPress that lets you add custom data to posts and pages. It is both powerful and simple to use. If you need something like this, it might just be what you’re looking for.

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Excel Spreadsheet of US States

Here’s a simple Excel spreadsheet of US States and their abbreviations.  I don’t know how many times I’ve recreated this blooming thing.  I just found myself, once again trying to find a decent table of states to put into my Supple Forms states drop down list, and after ten minutes and finally getting it into an nice Excel table, I figured it was time to memorialize it forever here.  So, no more hunting around.  Here you go:

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Supple Forms – A WordPress CMS Plugin

supple_formsI am pleased to announce the release of Supple Forms, a CMS plugin for WordPress.  If you’ve been looking for content management on WordPress, Supple Forms may be part of your solution.  It is easy, flexible, powerful, and lightweight. Supple Forms offers two significant functions for your blog: 1) building custom write panels for the WordPress Write Post page; and 2) easy inserting of form data and HTML snippets into your posts.

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Radio Buttons not Showing Checked in FireFox

In the process of building a WordPress plugin that I’m sure will sweep the nation ;-)  , I came across a really annoying FireFox bug with Radio Buttons.  The problem is that if you two groups of Radio Buttons (say 3 buttons in each group) and you set one button as Checked in each group, sometimes, the button in the first group won’t show up as Checked.  Arrrgghhhh! Read the rest of this entry »

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Hosting a Plugin on WordPress with Aptana and Subclipse- pt 3

Welcome back to part 3….and 4 ;-) of the video series on how to host a WordPress plugin using Aptana and Subclipse to accomplish the Subversion gymnastics.  If you haven’t already done so, check out Part 1 and Part 2 of this series now.

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