- Cinema 16:9 for
Best Indie Theater AND Best Hot Dog
- Regency Café for
Best Coffee Shop
- Farm Fresh Express for
Best Gourmet Grocery
- Mission Burrito for
Best Burrito
C# Coding Standard
One of my goals for this fiscal year is to try and develop some guidelines and best practices for development in our team.
While reading some blogs related to standardization, I stumbled on the following coding standards documents:
- The IDesign C# Coding Standard
- Philips Medical Systems C# Coding Standard
- Microsoft’s Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers
Redirection Plugin for WordPress
Earlier this week I installed the Redirection Plugin for WordPress to handle some broken permalinks caused as a result of changing the URL structure for my domain.
There’s some great information about customizing the plugin at Redirection Plugin and Regexes. For my purposes, I was trying to redirect posts like:
http://www.leonelson.com/2009/02/title-of-this-page.html
to:
http://www.leonelson.com/2009/02/title-of-this-page/
Here are the settings that worked for me:
Source URL: /(\d*)?/(\d*)?/([A-Za-z0-9-]*).html
Target URL: /$1/$2/$3/
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
Earlier today, when trying to run an executable on a Windows 2003 server, where my account is part of the Administrators group, I received the error “Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.”
Weird. Checked the file permissions, file ownership and for some reason this issue seemed vaguely familiar.
Turns out that in order to execute the file you have to do the following:
- Open Internet Explorer
- Click on Tools
- Click on Internet Options
- Select Internet and click Custom Level
- In the Miscellaneous section, set the ‘Launching applications and unsafe files’ to Prompt (recommended) as shown in the screen shot below:

Posting it here in an attempt to save an hour of my time or yours in the future.
Risk Taking
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
–William Arthur Ward