Today, I wanted to create my own icon for my blog, but I found out that Photoshop CS4 does not support this file type. What to do? Fortunately there exists a plugin for this. It's a plugin created by Telegraphics and completely freeware, even with source code in C++. The only downside is that it doesn't support 64bit version of Photoshop CS4, so you have to always use the 32bit one. [More]

Last week I experienced a very annoying unhandled exception in XAML designer of Visual Studio 2008 SP1. It happened after installing of preview and beta tools for Silverlight 3, which was a mistake, because I installed them onto Silverlight 2 tools. When I installed the tools Expression Blend was working properly, but when I wanted to edit the code and use IntelliSense, the only choice was to switch to Visual Studio. Unfortunatelly, the Visual Studio was unable to render any XAML and shown an exception only. [More]

My friend told me today to open Google Translate, enter "Vylet do Bratislavy" and select Slovak to English. For those who don't understand this phrase - "Vylet" means "trip", "do" means "to" and "Bratislavy" is a capital city of Slovak Republic in a gramatically accusative case. And what you get? ... "Trip to Prague" [More]

A month ago, I started to work on the customized version of BlogEngine.NET. By default it‘s being debugged on ASP.NET Development Server, but I tried to run it on my local IIS7 server. When the application was starting I got a strange ASP.NET error that complains about missing information in machine.config in conjuction with Windows Communication Foundation. See, how to fix it. [More]