Justins Fat Tire

Good God, I have always hated the default code formatting of visual studio 2005. It drives me up the wall. For some reason I could never figure out how to change it. Now due to the grace of God and Jebus I have discovered the light. Some dude's blog You go dude, I'm finally glad to be able to get rid of that shitty auto formatting and get my code to look right. Some guys like compact code, I prefer more whitespace for ease of reading. So hopefully I can pass this information on to other people who are looking for it.

Jesus, It's been a while since I posted anything to the blog. Like the world rests on my half assed writing abilities. So a lot has happened in the past month or so. The democrats take the house and senate, but is it more from republicans dropping the ball or the dems making a good movement with voters? I think a little bit of both but more of the first. I have been shit deep in ASP.net and learning about it's issues and fun things. I've developed some pretty cool pages and am actually liking it more. I think it's web programming in general that sucks. Things I take for granted in the forms/win32 world take extra steps to get around in the web world. I took my first steps into masonry and am now an Entered Apprentice. I am working on my Fellow Craft degree and hope to have it done soon. I have enjoyed meeting the many new people in masonry and it's been a great experience so far. It's been a busy month and it's not letting up. Perhaps once the new ...

Ok firefox has put out another RC for their kickass browser. They're starting to look like Microsoft here. You can download it directly here: RC 3 I am installing it now and will see how it looks throughout the day.

Ok I work in C# visual studio 2005 A LOT. For a while I have been wanting a nice right click context menu to turn a member variable into a nice property. I tried creating my own but I'm too stupid/lazy to figure it out. I gave up but found this handy tool today! Go dude! I don't know the guy but he rocks. This thing will be very handy indeed.

Ok after using the new RC1 for firefox it is getting the thumbs up from me. Tabs are better, searching is better, the add-in search is better. Everything is now better. Most of the mainstream extensions also work. I am using Script block, AdSense, IETab, and a few others with no issues. As mentioned before it sucked in all my bookmarks from my beta 2 install. However it did not suck in stuff from my 1.5 install. That will probably be fixed in the future. My only real issue is the themes aren't up to date with the 2.0 versions. Most of the really cool themse stop at the 1.6 version. This leaves few choices for themes. I don't use a lot them anyway so it's not a big deal to me. But some may find it irritating.

Firefox version 2 has hit RC 1 status. You can download the goodies here: Binary downloads I've been using the 2 beta for a while and have just installed the rc1 release. It doesn't overwrite the old beta version but does suck in all your saved bookmarks, passwords, etc. I will be playing with it over the course of the next few days to see how she runs!

So I'm working on this asp.net project. We need rich text formatting for our customers. You know since they like to copy and paste from Word and what not. During the course of testing I discover malformed HTML, especially DIV tags bombs the app by closing our div tags before they are supposed to. So we decide we need to either prevent certain HTML or clean it before it gets saved to the DB. After some looking I find NTidy, a .net wrapper around Tidy a C/C++ HTML cleaner. You can download it from SourceForger here: NTidy on SourceForge I insert the dll into my project and get it running on my machine. Of course since its OSS no documentation( see my post below ) but I get it running. Soon we have clean valid HTML and no more malformations. But today, disaster strikes, the production server hosting this bombs on our new build. It says it can't find needed assemblies for the damn NTidy dll. Enter google (how I love thee so), after a few hours I find an obscure post...