Windows Live Writer is the most popular blog client tool. Microsoft recently released Windows Live Writer 4 as part of new Windows Live Essentials Beta launch. I tried it and it looks great. Here is what’s new.
Live Writer 4 has same Ribbon style menu as Office 2010. Actually this applies to other Windows Live wave 4 products, Live Mail, Photo Gallery etc.
This code snippet demonstrates how to replace string in file using perl. This perl script takes in an input file, replaces the all string foo with bar.
my $file = $ARGV[0];
my $filetmp = "$ARGV[0].tmp";
open (INPUT, "< $file") or die("Unable to open $file");
open (TMP, "> $filetmp") or die("Unable to open $filetmp");
while(<INPUT>) {
if(/foo/) {
s/foo/bar/; # replace foo with bar
}
print TMP $_;
}
close(INPUT);
close(TMP);
rename $filetmp, $file;
If you install DotNet framework 4.0 on Windows Server 2008 or R2 after enabling IIS, you might see following error when browse your application site made of ASP.NET 4.0 (or run on ASP.NET 4.0 application pool).
Could not load type ‘System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule’ from assembly ‘System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089’.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type ‘System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule’ from assembly ‘System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089’.
If IIS is enabled after DotNet 4 installation then ASP.NET is not registered with IIS. You will see the error if your site is targeting ASP.NET 4. To resolve this issue, run the following from elevated command line to register ASP.NET 4:
aspnet_regiis.exe /iru
The aspnet_regiis.exe file can be found in either
More info for ASP.NET IIS Registration Tool (Aspnet_regiis.exe) can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k6h9cz8h.aspx
WordPress 3.0 is finally released with some great new features.
I just upgraded my site to 3.0 today. The upgrade was smooth, however, I find that export doesn’t work any more. When I try to push export button to download posts xml file locally, I get following error.
Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in /home/content/22/5401722/html/wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 176
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/22/5401722/html/wp-includes/taxonomy.php:176) in /home/content/22/5401722/html/wp-admin/includes/export.php on line44
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/22/5401722/html/wp-includes/taxonomy.php:176) in /home/content/22/5401722/html/wp-admin/includes/export.php on line45
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/22/5401722/html/wp-includes/taxonomy.php:176) in /home/content/22/5401722/html/wp-admin/includes/export.php on line46
WordPress FAQ suggests checking spaces in wp-config.php and remove blank spaces before <?php tag or after ?> tag, I try and it does not help.
After trying deactivate on every single plug-in, I figure out it’s the plug-in Simple Tags that breaks WordPress 3.0 new export feature. Before Simple Tags owner releasing a fix, you can temp workaround this issue by deactivating Simple Tags plugin. After that, you will be able to get exported xml file to save.
Office 2010 has a few great new features and improvements which make sharing and collaboration easier than ever.
You can now create OneNote notebooks through web browsers and have other people to view, edit and collaborate anywhere. All notebooks created online will be saved to SkyDrive so you will need to have a Windows Live ID.
OneNote Web Application is free, just like other similar live service Microsoft has delivered over many years (hotmail, messenger). To get start with OneNote Web App, go to http://office.live.com and logon with your Windows Live ID. OneNote Web Application has familiar OneNote interface so you don’t have to learn it.
Start from OneNote 2010, when you creating new notebooks, you can save notebooks to SkyDrive directly so they are available to you everywhere.
SkyDrive is live with OneNote Sync, you can now go to Office.live.com and start upload your OneNote files. Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are available free for personal use.
When you creating New Notebook in OneNote 2010, you can now save it to SkyDrive directly. To get start, you will need to have a Windows Live ID, and sign in when you are asked to. Notebooks will be automatically synced among different OneNote clients if they are online.
The Microsoft Training Kit is free download that contains useful training resources. Here is a list of some latest useful training kits, the training content includes demo, videos, presentations, hands on lab and some code samples. Enjoy it
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There is an easier way to get last element on a split operation, save split result to an array and use $array[-1] and this will access last element of the arrays.
$strings=”foo,bar,test”;
my @fields = split(/,/, $strings);
print $fields[-1] ; # the last str in $strings
This note is for a trick to use Q and E to escape characters for regular expression. You will find it very useful when you do string substitution and your pattern contains characters like slashes or backslashes .