At work I get to work on a lot of different applications that I didn’t write.

One of the problems I’ve inherited was an application that was using forms authentication, which is kind of rare for our apps. And had a time out set in the web config. So of course I thought the time out was as simple as just changing the number in the web config. Nope.

The timeout was actually being over ridden in the code. So after doing a search of the entire solution for FormsAuthentication I found the section that was overwriting the time out. It was set to 10 minutes. So unfortunately something that should have been just a simple web.config change turned out to be a code change.

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I’ve been meaning to start blogging about technical stuff forever so here goes the first one.

Extender Controls May Not Be Registered Before Prerender

Chances are if you see this one you are missing a call to Base.OnPreRender(e) in the overide of the OnPreRender event. Adding the function call there will fix the problem. Apparently this wasn’t an issue in the first release of ajax, when I recieved it, it was after upgrading a perfectly fine app to the newest version of Ajax.

Here’s the link I found the solution at: http://aspnetresources.com/blog/controls_may_not_be_registered_before_prerender.aspx

It would be “Are there any woman outside of your family that you look up to or admire?”

That would be my feminist litmus test. If  he names a teacher from high school or elementary school then he’s pretty much going for the safe answer. A college professor would be better, but a famous women who held some sort of leadership role would be my ideal answer for this question.

I’d like to see if he would defy the convention that says it’s okay to  admire men for being great leaders cause that’s what men are supposed to do but women should not be admired for such traits, and that having those traits would make her a bitch. If he could really walk the feminist walk, or if he felt he could just rise above such questions.

This primary season has focused a lot on gender and race. And if Obama comes out as the winner I think he might have a problem with some women being bitter at Hillary’s loss and opting out of voting on election day. If he’s truly the uniter he says he is I wonder what he would say to ease the sting of Hillary’s loss to those women or if he felt that he had to say anything at all and that they should just vote for him cause he’s the democratic nominee.

Feminism is defined as the belief in the social, political, and economical equality of the sexes.

On digg there is an article about Swedish women wanting to change the law that would make a woman to be able to go topless at pools.

The majority of the digg commenters had two reactions. First one was yay for boobies (typical expected reaction). The second one was, but if we were able to see boobies all the time like that wouldn’t we become desensitized to them and that would suck, so they should keep them covered up.

In both reactions little regard was given to the women as people but only to their boobies and how much the men would enjoy them or get bored with them. Which would imply that these digg users see women only as sexual objects that exist for their enjoyment. Therefore social equality hasn’t been achieved if one segment of the population sees another segment as being there just for their pleasure.

Social aspects of life also factor into the political and economical realms of life. After all people ask voters “which candidate would you most like to have a beer with?” and consider that to be a healthy political dialogue. That alone is mind boggling. And getting to the top of the corporate ladder is considerably harder if you have to start at the bottom of the social one. Therefore feminism is still relevant and has yet to reach it’s goal of equality. As opposed to it’s detractors who claim that feminism has already achieved it’s goals in our culture and that it should disappear or just worry about other cultures.

Mia Rose a porn star who stared in World of W#$%$craft has had her account banned from wow after some one found out who she was and posted her website information in general chat on the server she was playing on. I guess she did an interview with kotaku regarding this, but I’m not sure if it had any information beyond that in it, since kotaku is blocked here at work. Nethera responded to a post about saying it was ToS violation, and the usual blah, blah, blah.

I’m conflicted on this one, the prude in me says “Yay  for striking back at bad porn!” The First amendment activist in me says “Whoah, wait a minute she got banned cause someone else posted her website in general chat, that doesn’t sound right.” Of course I’m guessing there’s more to the story in a week or so we’ll probably find out she was also a gold farmer.

Update: Turns out it was at first an advertising thing then turned into an account sharing ban. Because she got the account from a friend paid for it, but was unable to change the name on the account.

Why aren’t the two versions of Dick Cheney being played on every network news channel? It’s funny how all of this seems so obvious but it’s blatantly ignored.

I just spoke with Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora, and he told me a SoundExchange exec just promised — in front of Congress — that SoundExchange will not enforce the collection of webcaster royalties under the new rates that would have driven many of them out of business.

Great news for internet radio, and it makes me glad that I actually took the time to call my senators and representative yesterday.

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So the denied the plea to delay the massive royalty hike that could easily devestate webcasters, such as my personal favorite, Pandora.

So the only choice left is to bombard senators with calls to advocate the Internet Radio Equality Act.

 I called both Arizona Senators McCain and Kyle, and neither have yet taken a position on this issue.

I called Congressman Mitchell as well and found out he already is a co-sponsor of the bill. Woot!

 If anyone else is calling their senator I’d love to know the responses that you are getting. To get the numbers for your representative go here:

http://www3.capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/alert_9738601.html

Also they have a nice script that you can use to talk about the issue if you want. I know I always get nervous about what I should say exactly.

The Bush Administration has spent a whopping $80 million since November to promote performance based compensation programs for teachers. But not everyone is willing to stand behind the idea of a merit pay system. Here are the top ten reasons why merit pay for teachers is a terrible idea.read more | digg story

Improving the education system is something I’ve always had an interest in. And I’m pretty sure the performance in our schools is very closely related to how much money we put into them. So you’d really think throwing in bonus income would help but this article shows how it could hurt when done on a merit system.

I think the best point of the article is the distinction it makes between what teachers at a low performing school with more issues wouldn’t make as much as teachers at better performing schools. Issues that might affect performance of the schools would be drugs, gang violence, etc.

During a recent conversation with some coworkers a manager commented that the biggest problem teachers have is that they are in a teachers union and that’s why that field isn’t considered “professional” or “white-collar” and therefore get that pay scale. But you know what if we’re going to consider teachers to not be a “white-collar” profession then we should give them hazard pay to work in “bad” schools. That would help give troubled schools a larger group of teachers to choose from so they can get the better pick of the crowd.

A puppy has been born in Japan with a large, clear, love-heart-shaped pattern in his coat. The chihuahua was born in May as one of a litter to a breeder. Shop owner Emiko Sakurada said it was the first time a puppy with the marks had been born out of a thousand she had bred.

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