October 2006 - Posts
Scott W shows a new skin , running the most brand-spankin' newly committed CS code of course. Is this a preview of a skin coming in CS 3.0? I sure hope so - I really like the looks of that one. I can imagine mine with shades of blue or shades of green. I can imagine James Shaw with shades of orange. :) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
[See: Rob Howard's Seven days from now ] From zero to blogmailr in less than a week !?!? You've got to be kidding me. These guys are good. No, no, ... these guys rock! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
Friday I answered a question in the forums on CommunityServer.org about adding an blog list in the sidebar . I had done this before to this site on previous versions of CS. I had not taken the time to do it yet, so for maybe the first time in my life it thought, "No better time than the present!". My answer involved making some code changes to the core. After thinking about it some more I realized I would either have to find a way to do the same thing without the code changes or I would have to write...
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Our presentation went pretty well - Jim liked it . I have posted the slide show and other presentation materials and Jim will post them to the Dayton .NET Developers site as well. Remember, we'll be doing the same presentation in January for CINNUG, too, in case you missed us this time around and really have a hankerin' for a hunk of cheese. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
My experience with ASP.NET AJAX (formerly Atlas) prior to the last 24 hours really only involved downloading and installing the various versions that came out, watching a couple of the videos, and checking out some of the sample projects. I had made use of some various Javascript libraries in the past for some "wait screens" on a past project or two, but not specifically Atlas - they were .NET 1.1 projects. I also used to be pretty good with javascript back in the day when we hand-coded form validation...
Tonight is the night. Joe Wirtley and I will be giving our presentation, Real World Continuous Integration, at the Dayton .NET Developer's Group . We did a dry run for the developers at Tellus last Friday and it seemed to go pretty well. We had a few problems here and there, but that's the purpose of practice - to find those mistakes and issues. If you are in the neigborhood stop by and see us. If you miss us this time around we are tentatively schedule to give the same presentation at the Cincinnati...
I received the following error today after installing the newest AJAX Control Toolkit (formerly Atlas Control Toolkit): Cryptographic failure while signing assembly 'AtlasControlToolkit.dll'. Access is denied. Seems I had a permissions error. Did a bit of searching on Google and found this post on a blog by R. Aaron Zupancic . That did the trick. I would have never thought that the permissions error had something to do with the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto...
Joe Wirtley and I will be giving a presentation, Real World Continuous Integration, at the Dayton .NET Developer's Group meeting on October 25th. We will discuss using Cruise Control .NET, NAnt, MSBuild, and NUnit to create an effective automated CI system. We will also discuss using code review/statistics tools like NCover, FxCop, NDepend, and Simian. We hope to get to more advanced topics like deployment, integrating multiple build projects, database integration, and more. Share this post: email...
I've said here before how much I can't stand having fantasy players play on Monday night, right? Last night: I was down by 10 points, but I had Rex Grossman, the upstart quarterback for the Bears, running the best offense in the league through five weeks for a 5-0 team. Not good enough for you - the Bears were playing the Arizona Cardinals, the 28th ranked pass defense in the league. It was a matchup made in heaven! Except ... bad news for me... it was on Monday night... so of course nothing would...
This is the second year that some friends and I have competed in the Cincinnati Sports League's Mens flag football league . We play on Wednesday nights at Oakley Athletic Fields. Last year we won our first game and lost our remaining 8 (or 9, but who's counting?). This year we've started off 0-3. We got blown out week one, last week we lost by a couple of scores, but then last night we were competitive. We lost 14-6 after trailing 14-0 and then just missing on a fourth down conversion...
I don't know which is worse - going into Monday Night Football with a slight lead or trailing by a few points? I guess that logically going in with a lead would be better - you've already got the lead. But nothing is more nerve-wracking or heartbreaking than watching that lead getting eaten up. This week going into the Monday night game I have a 20 point lead over my opponent and he only has one player in the game - Donovan McNabb. Twenty points is a "slight" lead in this case because...