The List
In anticipation of the anticipated growth in popularity of the E-com DevBlog I thought it might be a good idea to mention that we here at Team Awesome have been keeping a list of good things that have at times made us laugh, traditionally this list was kept tucked away in a folder somewhere on each of our desktops only to be revisited when someone makes an addition and emails the change to the rest of us. However I noticed that whenever there was a change that someone wanted made they felt it was necessary to tell me to do it rather than do it and send us all the results. So in order to curb this and at the very least make it easer to share I recently (within' the last 10 minutes) uploaded said list to google docs and shared it amongst those who already knew about it. I have no problem sharing it with anyone who is interested as long as you do two things.
- get me your gmail account
- Remember, it's an honer to be on the list, not a punishment.
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IE Hompage reset (Part 2)
Originally I had entered this information in the original post, but I felt that it needed it's own post (the video limitations of the plugin's that I'm using to display video also prompted this second post 
).
Anyway, Remo commented (in an email) about using the Group Policy Editor (gpedit) to change your group policy restrictions to change your homepage (yes you can do that and a ton of other things that you can play with), this is another viable route to the homepage lockdown problem, but he also asked for a post on using regedit to unlock or change your homepage. I thought that maybe I would find the key that actually holds the homepage information and just edit that, but I found a different way that I think I like better (seems like it has less potential for system-wide destruction). So here are the steps.
- Crack open regedit from the command line
- when this opens navigate/drill-down to
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Control Panel". Note that this will only exist if your current
admin has locked down your computer... if you can't find this route
(meaning this tree does not exist) then DO NOT CONTINUE! - If you did find the path, then now is the time to make a backup of
your registry file. To do this click on File->export->(make sure
your selected branch is at the bottom, or click "All" for the entire
registry) Save. - Now that you're safely backed up, lets double-click on "HomePage"
(it's the blue REG_DWORD value in the right pane). In the pop-up change
the value from 1 to 0, and viola! crack open IE and go to change your
homepage the "normal" way and it will no longer be locked. - rejoice in your geekery...(not a required step, but it is recommended
)
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A little Homepage reset in IE
Sounds easy enough right? Well what happens when your box has been locked down and when you look at your internet options in IE (or in control panel) you discover that the homepage box has been grayed-out and there's nothing you can do to reset it? Simple, use another route. One of the things that m$ almost got right was the ability to get anywhere you wanted to by at least 2 different ways. In this case the SysAdmins may have blocked your normal route with a group or user policy, but they didn't block the other route.
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If you just watched the video (sorry about the small compression) you've see that there is another way to set your homepage in IE7, the little drop down menu by your homepage button. simply navigate to the page you want as your homepage and then click the drop down and select "Add or Change Home Page". From there a new dialog window will appear and then click on the radio button next to "Use this webpage as your only home page" (the first time you do this I think you have three options so pick the one closest to this option). From there just click the "Yes" button and then you're set!
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Team Awesome – The Theme Song
This has really nothing to do with development, but our team ("Team Awesome") has finally got a theme song, and I decided to share that with everyone.
Team Awesome - Rock'd Solid Mix
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Team Awesome - Drew's Lightweight Server Mix
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enjoy!
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Ecom DevBlog
So this is it, this is where I'll keep all my notes of things that I learn while studying the confounding IBM Websphere commerce.
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