Frederic Malenfant

My favorites channels: progressive rock, and Rock Instrumentals.

If you want the best results, connect to this url with Google Chrome, and create an application from this url. You'll get a standalone player separated from the rest of the browser.

Puisque leur travail est maintenant terminé dans le secteur de Québec, ils ont rendu disponible le fruit de leur travail.

Je me suis donc rendu au hasard à l'endroit où j'avais croisé la voiture Google… Surprise, elle était en action !

Je suis présent sur 5 photos, je suis tout content !  🙂  Le mec à moto, c'est moi!

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On that date, Microsoft will officially end the Internet Explorer 6 support, meaning that no more security updates will be released for this web browser.

Will we be able to remove support for this browser from our application at this date?  

I hope that all retarted organisations will finally upgrade their browser to something else!

this month (september 2009), 49% of our visitors were using Internet Explorer.  And 31% of them are using IE6, that means that around 15% of our visitors are still using the 10 years old IE6.

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps#Internet_Explorer

But, there is one thing that is really missing from Windows 7, that was included in Vista, and was a really great idea in vista.  This is the Sidebar.  I always work with 2 1600X1050 screens, and on the right side of my second screen, I started using the sidebar.  And after some months, I can say that I can't live without it.  Where I work, we planned to create some gadgets for this bar to integrate our tools with it.

Surprise, in Windows 7, Microsoft decided to change the gadgets behavior.  The Windows Gadgets can now go out of the bar, on the desktop.  But, the bar disappear !  We can't put the gadgets on the bar, there is no longer any sidebar!  What ?  If I put a gadget on the desktop, I will never see it.  If I put it "always on top", it will go over my application.  The sidebar was using a reserved place on the right of the screen, and no windows was going over or under it.  That was great.

You know what?  Because of this, I decided to look at some alternatives, and I realised that Google Desktop application provide a sidebar.  They have similar gadgets.  And, guess what, you can choose (listen to this Microsoft) to the place where you want your gadget, on the bar OR on the desktop.  You have the choice.  Why MS decided that the gadgets now go only on the desktop, and make the sidebar disappear?  That was a great mistake.  

Now our company is planning to create a Google Sidebar Gadget, and we are not sure if we will work on the MS gadget.  I can't believe that MS did that.  They open the door to Google for their sidebar. I plan that Google will really increase their sidebar during the following weeks. 

Suggestion to Google: Create a "stand alone" version of the gadget sidebar, without the indexer (google desktop engine).  I only want to use the sidebar, not the desktop search engine.  I disabled everything related to the indexing in the desktop options, keeping only the sidebar functionalities.

I just found that, on the home bing.com page, if I type, I get suggestions, normal.  If I start typing "jeff fillion", (a local radio host from quebec), I see it in the suggestions.  If I type "Marissa Mayer", one of vice president of Google, I do not see its name as a suggestion.  But it is certainly one of the top searched name of the internet.  Is Bing hiding informations that come from google?

The same thing is true for the Microsoft Update.  If a Windows Update is available that do NOT need the system to restart, please, just install it and do not notify me that you will install an update, and after, that the update had been installed.  I trust those companies, Sun, Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and I am sure that they know more than me if the update is important for my machine.

My message to all the software developers in the world that produce updates of their application every month: ALWAYS let us activate an option that will do automatic update without any notification!

C'est exactement le type d'air que je veux envoyer dans ma maison pour le confort en été.  Je n'ai rien trouvé pour le moment, mais je me demande bien s'il existe 1 système qui pourrait récupérer cet air froid et l'envoyer directement dans ma maison, au moins en partie, afin que je puisse en profiter, ainsi avoir 2 dans 1 avec un seul appareil.  

It is based on a public database provided by the Canadian government.  I only extracted the data and created some very simple lists, with links to google maps to see where the antennas are located.

The database contains information of all Canadian, and some Americans and Mexicans antennas, for AM, FM, Television and also Sirius and XM terrestrial repeaters.

The utility is located here: http://www.fredericmalenfant.com/antenna 

You will also get information on the power of the antenna and many other information.

I hope it may be useful to someone!

You can send me your comments on my contact  page.

Hello .NET developers.

For the last days I had a lot of trouble doing my own URL Redirection with ASP.NET (3.5), MasterPages and "~" server side redirection for <img src>, <a href>, <link src=css> and other controls.

After a lot of work and searching, I finally found the solution.

My files:
on the root, I have all my aspx.
On the root/Masterpage folder, I have my .master files
And on the root/Usercontrols folder, I have all my ascx files.
my images are on the root/img folder.

/default.aspx
/masterpages/headerfooter.master
/usercontrols/banner.ascx
/img/picture.jpg

First of all, before talking about redirection, let's talk about what .NET do with your "~" or ".." shortcut.

If these html tags are directly in a .master file (example <img src=../img/image.jpg>, then the ".." or "~" characters will be automatically managed by .NET even if the <img> control is not runat=server.  Every html control directly on the .master file will be managed like runat=server objects, to be sure that all the references to other files will work fine, because your aspx files that use these master pages can be anywhere on your web site.

If these html tags are in .ascx files, in user controls, you must add the runat="server", id="something" to every tag you want a clean redirection (<img>, <a> or else).  By doing it, the usercontrol will adapt all its containing html "runat=server" tags to the position of the containing ASPX file.

But, we did not do any url rewriting yet.

If I do url rewriting, let's say, I want to say "http://mysite.com/products/" to redirect to "http://mysite.com/productlist.aspx", the problems begins.  When the "~" or ".." addresses are managed, they are transformed according to the root folder, because my productlist.aspx file is on the root.  For example, if my masterpage have a <img src="../img/picture.jpg"> tag, it will be transformed in "<img src="img/picture.jpg">.  The problem is that the URL shown in the browser is /products", so the browser is looking to find the file at this address: http://mysite.com/products/img/picture.jpg.  It will never find it.

1 solution I tried is to use the <base> tag in the header, but I got some trouble with, and I have to write a <% %> tag in my .master file, and I hate it.

The best solution I found that seems to work really fine is this one:  When you call the "Context.RewritePath" function, with your new url, use this syntax: Context.RewritePath(innerpath, False)

The False tag seems to make all page be calculated from the client url, not from the server url, and that solve every problems !!! It works fine with my page in the designer, in the debug mode with the integrated mini-iis, and with the real IIS too.  That's fantastic!  And, I'm happy to see that I found a solution that even Microsoft themself did not found!  They recently release a urlrewriting utility and they say that they have a known bug, when resolving the "~" addresses !  (look at their "known issue" number 2!)

I tried the solution they told to use, with the Page_Preinit and the use of HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL server variable, but it was not working for me, I always have this variable set to nothing.

I hope it may help you.  Have a good coding time!