How I fixed my Maytag Neptune Washing Machine

April 5, 2010 By Larry Brouwer Leave a Comment

Today was a bust for any kind of web development learning activities. However, I did learn a few things about electronics! The morning started off by discovering our vintage Maytag Neptune Washing (MAH3000AWW) machine has stopped spinning out the clothes. So with sopping wet clothes in the washer, I began researching the problem.

After much googling, I learned that this is a very common problem with the Neptune. In fact, so much of a problem, that Maytag settled a class action lawsuit over it. Here are several great links if you happen to run across this post:

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DotNetNuke installation steps on my web server

April 1, 2010 By Larry Brouwer Leave a Comment

Installing DotNetNuke (free Community Edition) on my www.larrybrouwer.com development web server. My first thought was to use the Web Platform Installer in IIS, however, I opted out of this method as I wanted to gain a better understanding of what was actually occurring. So I downloaded it directly from the codeplex DotNetNuke download site.

There are several packages to choose from, I opted to go with the recommended download, which is the install version (no source code). Since I’ve already downloaded the source on my development workstation, I don’t need it on the server. The current version today is 5.3.1 released on 3/24/2010.

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Visual Studio Training Materials

March 31, 2010 By Larry Brouwer Leave a Comment

Read the first chapter in Microsoft Visual Studio Tips book from Safari Online.

Visual Studio training kits:

Installing DoNetNuke Community Edition on my development machine. Ran into security problems while loading the software. C:\InetPub\ needs security permissions added for ‘IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool’. See hereand herefor more information.

Implementing BlogEngine.Net for HCMGA

March 30, 2010 By Larry Brouwer Leave a Comment

I’ve decided to implement BlogEngine.Net on the Harris County Master Gardener website. This is a website I developed as a way for the Master Gardeners to update their profiles and keep track of their volunteer hours.

I use subversion to track changes to the website. It’s free and it works great! You can read all about it here: http://subversion.tigris.org/ There are basically 3 things you need to install to get it going for your development environment:

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