http://teknohippy.net Taglines? Where we’re going we don’t need … taglines. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:05:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you use ASP.net masterpages then sooner or later you will have discovered that you cannot access your masterpage properties using Page.Master or simply Master. Previously I have used the solution you see floating around a lot, that is to put the following in your content page aspx (assuming ... http://teknohippy.net/2008/06/27/accessing-aspnet-masterpage-properties-from-content-page/ My goal for the winter was to shoot more than 550 for a Porstmouth. My last 3 were all 546, and it was getting quite frustrating. Last night on the last day of the Winter season I finally did it with a 557. http://teknohippy.net/2008/04/01/new-portsmouth-pb-attained-my-winter-goal/ I shot a 546 Portsmouth again yesterday night. That's four in a row now. Shot six 7s, rather disappointing. Without them I'd have made the 550 Winter goal I set myself. Not much of the Winter season left now. Next chance is Monday evening, a little more concentration and we'll ... http://teknohippy.net/2008/03/28/matched-pb-again/ During the aftermath of the footer hack, and becuase I've started to take fiction writing seriously, I've decided to split my blog into two. teknohippy.net is pretty much what it has been and anything about writing is now on http://iainmnorman.com. http://teknohippy.net/2008/03/27/splitter/ Well I've learned my lesson regarding critical security updates. I've been running a couple of version behind the latest for months now. I then spotted a whole bunch of 404s in Google's webmaster tools. Really odd links that shouldn't even exist on my site. So after investigating I discovered that my footer.php ... http://teknohippy.net/2008/03/26/wordpress-footerphp-hacked/ If like me you run an installation of DasBlog in a sub folder/app then you may run into this error message when you start using ASP.net 2.0 membership/role providers in the base app. The SSE Provider did not find the database file specified in the connection string. At the ... http://teknohippy.net/2008/03/12/dasblog-in-a-sub-folder-sse-provider-did-not-find-the-database-file/ http://teknohippy.net/2008/03/06/10mb-at-last/ As I've previously written about, I've been having some trouble with PayPal PDT ( Payment Data Transfer ) and Google Analytics e-commerce tracking. If you've added Analytics to your PayPal thank-you page, and used PDT to get the data to be sent to Analytics and got that working nicely then you ... http://teknohippy.net/2008/03/04/paypal-ipn-pdt-analytics-tracking-getting-there/ Gigajam have started a blog, one of the exiciting entries is that they have released all their TV shows online for free. http://www.gigajam.com/news... That's over 6 hours of video lessons for guitar, bass, keyboard and drums. http://teknohippy.net/2008/02/08/gigajam-blog-free-tv-lessons-for-guitar-bass-keyboard-and-drums/ It should be fairly easy for someone with programming experience to create their own "Plugins" to extend the AirClick. It runs on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, which means you can write plugins in any .NET capable language. Just add a reference to the actual AirClick.exe file, define that you ... http://teknohippy.net/2008/02/07/making-airclick-usb-plugins/ Updated post: http://www.teknohippy.net/2008/03/04/paypal-ipn-pdt-analytics-tracking-getting-there/ Trying to track E-commerce transactions with Google Analytics (GA) and PayPal can be problematic. PayPal has two ways of returning data to your server. Payment Data Transfer (PDT) and Instant Payment Notification (IPN). PDT can be used to setup GA tracking by including the relevant GA scripts ... http://teknohippy.net/2008/01/04/paypal-e-commerce-tracking-with-google-analytics/ TV series teaching you to play Guitar, Bass, Keyboard and Drums, availvable now for free. As seen on the Musicians Channel on Sky UK. read more | digg story http://teknohippy.net/2007/12/13/learn-to-play-guitar-bass-keyboard-drums-with-online-tv/ I'm bored of accidentally closing the IE tab or window that Pandora is running in. So I took a couple of minutes out to make PandoraPlayer, it's just a web browser control that opens Pandora and sits nice and quietly hidden in the system tray. Download PandoraPlayer Alpha 1 (44KB)* ... http://teknohippy.net/2007/11/09/pandora-player/ The new Winamp skin is actually usable! I've always hated the modern skin and so have not installed it for who knows how long, preferring the classic sking and it's darker colour. Well I've just installed Winamp 5.0 and thought I'd try out the new Bento skin. The good news is ... http://teknohippy.net/2007/10/29/winamp-50-bento-skin/ I've picked up a copy of SharpMT and this is being posted with my SPV E650. http://teknohippy.net/2007/05/05/sharpmt-test/ http://teknohippy.net/2007/04/12/kurt-vonnegut-thank-you/ The SPV e650 or HTC "Vox" has appeared in the April Orange catalogue. http://www.msmobilenews.com/content/view/1769/35/ http://teknohippy.net/2007/04/02/orange-spv-e650-shows-up-in-april-catalogue/ I emailed orange about the new SPV e650 They replied: Thank you for your Email The SPV E650 is due to be lunched on our network during April, however, this date is subject to change. Please keep visiting www.orange.co.uk for further on this handset. So that's the latest info I have. Very wooly as ... http://teknohippy.net/2007/03/22/orange-spv-e650-release-date/ Tara Sydney Willow, born 10:38am today, weighing 3.74kg. http://teknohippy.net/2007/02/09/a-new-member-of-the-family/ In a recent CVG interview, David Braben talks about the next version of Elite. Confirmation that Elite IV (No better name exists publically yet) is not vapourware as some have been saying. Obviously they've not been listening to David and the passion with which he speaks of a future Elite. Elite will ... http://teknohippy.net/2006/11/17/elite-iv-is-not-vapourware/