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WordPress 3.0
Jun 20th
Easily accomplished a manual upgrade to this version by:
- Made a backup of my wordpress contents, by using the export feature under tools, from the admin control panel
- Downloaded and extracted wordpress 3.0 from here
- Only change l made to my exisiting wp-config.php file, was to replace the key section with code from here.
- Deleted the entire contents of my wp-admin and wp-includes folders
- Left intact all contents of my wp-content
- Copied/uploaded all files from root folder of extracted wordpress 3 folder, to my site
- Uploaded wp-admin and wp-includes folder from extracted wordpress 3 folder to my site
- Logged into my sites admin console and an upgrade of the database was requested, l agreed to this and that was all.
- Switched to eDegree° 1.1 theme by Top Blog Formula
- Using also – Featured Gallary Content - click here for tutorial video on vimeo
.Net Data Access Tutorials…
Apr 2nd
Excellent series of tutorials by Scott Mitchell – Author of Teach yourself ASP.NET 3.5 in 24hrs – in Visual Basic as well as in Visual C#
Click here for link.
Preventing DNS hijacking by your ISP…
Jan 24th
Here is a link and interesting discuss on doing this if you use comcast. Here is a direct link to their solution webpage. Here is the link to OpenDNS. I’ve always found it annoying when you get redirected to a comcast search control+ad page, or a bing.com page when you mistype a url. This might be great for basic users, but power users would not l suspect like – you type hotmail.com in IE8 and your browser re-directs you to bing.com with hotmail.com as the first search result.! Now you need 2 clicks to simply get to hotmail.com
Azure sample database setup….
Dec 29th
Notes on setting up the sample database – adventureworks [click here] for Microsoft’s cloud computing sql server called Azure:
- you need an account – get one from sql.azure.com - it takes some time for your access information to arrive by email.
- download the sample database using link above
- extract/unzip to a known location
- make sure you add your home/work/workstation actual external facing ip address to the firewall settings
- wait for 5-10 mins for your ip address to be accepted by the azure online firewall system
- run the script commands below
See commands/reference pictures below:
Server Name: serverx serverx.database.windows.net
Administrator Username: userx
Server Location: South Central US
db name: ankh
cd dw
buildawdwaz.cmd tcp:serverx.database.windows.net userx@serverx passwordx
cd lt
buildawltaz.cmd tcp:serverx.database.windows.net userx@serverx passwordx
SQL Azure
Dec 6th
SQL Azure is a fully relational database in the cloud by Microsoft.
See this link for the main website.
For how to connect to Azure using ADO.Net heres a good link from msdn and another link which l’m currently using to work on plugging the northwind sample database to azure and using a WPF datagrid view to present the data.
Future of the web..
Nov 3rd
Interesting article on the future of the web, where will we be in five years? Click here for the article.
Classic Physics Lectures on Microsoft Research Website
Jul 14th
Microsoft Research at this link, provides for free the lecture series of iconic physicist Richard Feynman.
St. Louis Primary School…
Jul 5th
Internet search on google for my first school located in Kano, Nigeria – came up positive with a link to the schools website as well as pictures of my 2 principals – St. Brigette Burke and Ms Elizabeth Major . Completed nursery, then primary classes 1 to 6, then moved onto high school – called secondary school there – at Federal Government College, Kano. Schools there then as l know, were based on the British system, since Nigeria was colonized by the British. We got our independence in October, 1960.
Simply amazing finding this…
Shanghai, China….
May 28th
See links below of very good recent pictures taken by a friend Yongkie Hurd from a recent trip to China. I had the opportunity to work in the great city of Shanghai – China in 2006.