I’m posting this in hopes that it will save someone else a lot of time or someone that knows .NET a bit better than I can provide a better solution. 
Problem:
Last week, I had someone ping me regarding MarcEdit and a problem that they were running into with the Editor running it on a 64-bit version of […]

I was following a thread today talking about some of the legal wrangling’s related to Google and their Google Books project.  The message that made me laugh was a series where someone had commented that Google had long since forgotten their ‘do no evil’ philosophy and have become pure evil.  Of which, someone said it was […]

I’m playing with MS’s Live Writer (which I actually like) and kept getting an error message.  I’d assumed that meant that it didn’t post.  Apparently not.
 
–TR

One of the things that I spend a little too much time working on was how to setup a more streamlined version of resolving entities and ignoring entities.  The key has to do with avoiding a call to the XMLValidateNavigator object, and using the XMLTextReader gives you more granularity over the process.  Here’s an example:
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Keynotes:
The Zen of Free
Simon Phipps, Sun
“Opening” the Possibilities: APIs and Open Source
Gary Lang, AutoDesk, Inc.
Ugh — As good as the first day’s keynotes were — these were not.  I was nearly ready to bag the keynotes when…
5 a day
Robert “rOml” Lefkowitz, Root Markets
This was a fantastic keynote.  He started with a tomato and eventually wound […]

Its been noted in a few places around the blogsphere, but a number of notable Google-partners have been jumping ship.  The largest of these partners has been Amazon.  Amazon, who’s search engine, A9, utilized google to provide web search results, has moved to Microsoft’s new Live search service.  The switch came as a bit of […]

If you have a link checker, you invariably want to just read page headers.  Well, in .NET, they enforce a very strict interpretation of the HTTP header standard.  Unfortunately, a great number of servers (Innovative Interface’s ILS for one), don’t follow the output rules, so .NET’s HTTPWebRequest object will throw a webexception when requesting headers […]

Some folks that had tried using the Verify URL utility had notified me that it wasn’t reporting a response status when attempting to query materials through an ezproxy url.  The problem it appears, was that the servers in question had either expired security certificates or certificates that were not issued by a trusted site (i.e., […]