by Aaron

SMTP on Windows with WordPress

My blog is hosted on a shared Windows web server running IIS. My web host does not support WordPress’ ability to send e-mails as notifications without a modification. This problem occurs in WordPress 2.3, and WordPress 2.5, but may occur in other versions.

Thankfully, there’s a simple fix without requiring any modification of source code.

To enable e-mail notifications, I downloaded this plug-in:

WP-Mail-SMTP (download here)

Once you’ve enabled the Plug-in, you’ll find the Email settings here:

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then

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Then, provide the needed information and click the Update Options button. Use the Test Email form to make sure everything works.

by Aaron

Moved to WordPress

After a frustrating experience with The BlogEngine.NET and no desire whatsoever to troubleshoot the problem beyond a few simple tests, I’ve switched my blog to using WordPress. I generally liked BlogEngine, but for some unknown reason, my current feed reader (Google Reader), kept reporting that old blog posts had changed when in fact they really had not. I know it wasn’t just me either having this problem, so I hope that this annoying issue does not repeat itself with WordPress.

I’ve got a few easy ways to subscribe to the new feed:

technorati add aol netvibes myyahoo modern freedictionary ngsub

Sorry about the inconvenience.

Now that I believe this problem is fixed, I’m going to start posting again more frequently. I avoided posting knowing that my feed was having issues.

by admin

SnugUp – a SmugMug Mass Uploader

I put the finishing touches on a web page for a new application I just finished, SnugUp. It’s only useful if you have a SmugMug account, which I’d highly recommend if you’re serious about photos. Sign up here.

It’s written using .NET 3.5 — all WPF (except for a file dialog … :) ).

You can find out more here:

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I’ve used some elements of old posts to make it efficient to show thumbnails and some other tricks of WPF. Now that I’m done, I’ll see if there’s anything new and interesting that I’ve discovered.