Random thoughts about development on the Microsoft platform
Was having a frustrating few months with MKV files containing subtitles taking up to 30 seconds to load in VLC. The solution to the problem is to grant write permissions to the fontconfig file. So the simple fix is this:
Now MKV files containing subtitles will load instantly!
To do this, we need to create a custom WCF behavior and message inspector.
The solution file is available in the resources section of the post.
Accessing the web application worked fine, but trying to access the WCF services hosted under IIS (also using Windows Authentication) kept prompting the login dialog and then eventually failing with the dreaded 401.1 - Unauthorized
Adrian Foyn pointed me to a registry hack to enable loopbacks by setting the registry key:
Ran into an awesome jQuery plugin today while trying to find a quick way to add filtering and sorting to a table on the client machine rather than on the server side. It’s called TableSorter.
You can easily enable client side filtering, sorting and paging with a few lines of javascript and a multitude of options to customize it to your needs.
Here’s a demo. You can click on the headers to sort or type into the textbox to filter by FirstName or LastName.
Search:
| Last Name | First Name | Owing |
|---|---|---|
| King | Justin | $22.00 |
| Liu | John | $35.00 |
| Truong | Michelle | $100.00 |
| Gfader | Peter | $50.00 |
