Misplaced Secrets

Happy Insults

2011-10-20T07:52:00.001-07:00

Ever want to insult someone, but don't know the best way to do it. Send flowers or candy with your witty insult.

"Just wanted to let you know that you suck at Life! Enjoy the chocolate"

Options to send gifts such as chocolates that appear to have a bite taken out of them could be considered enhancements.

The perfect camera

2010-02-15T08:33:00.000-08:00

This is the QuickCam® Orbit AF. The main reason for selecting the camera is that it has 189 degree horizontal tilt and 102 degree vertical tilt. It also has 8 megapixel still images and it can do some fancy face recognition stuff. The specifications list it having Video Effects™, filters, avatars, and face accessories. Logitech also has a decent API so I should be ordering this guy soon.

Photo Booth...

2010-02-15T08:29:00.000-08:00

So I have decided that I need a new project. With a wedding coming up July 31st, 2010, now seemed like a perfect time for a photo booth.

So far a few things have been decided,

1. The photo booth needs to be easily portable. With this in mind, the booth will split into two parts resembling an L and a 7 so that they can slide together to make one large box for transportation. The L part of the box will be the seat and back wall, while the 7 part will hold all the hardware and the touchscreen.

2. The photo booth will use a touch screen. There has been some debate about this but....touchscreens are just cool...so touchscreen it is.

3. There will be two top braces that hold the curtains that will be able to fit in a door attached to the back of the L part.

I'll work on some drawings to clear up some design issues for a future post.

Override Debug Mode for IIS Applications

2010-02-10T08:38:00.000-08:00

If using Web Services in an ASP.NET application, having debug mode set to true will cause the files that are streamed by webresource.axd to be repeatedly downloaded since they will not be cached. In order to prevent an application from being uploaded to the server with debug mode set to true, follow the steps below.

1. Find your machine.config file for .NET framework. example: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config

2. Edit the following in the machine config file

<system.web>

</system.web>

</configuration>

That's it, all applications that are loaded onto that server will be forced to have debug mode set to false.