about 3 years ago - 3 comments
A few years ago I looked into using a Content Management System (CMS) to develop a site for a friend. At the time there were a few choices including Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, and about a hundred more which you can test at Open Source CMS. Mambo was really the only player that had the needed
about 3 years ago - 13 comments
The ASP.Net CheckBox and CheckBoxList control don’t allow for the use of the full W3C HTML standard. For some reason Microsoft decided to implement a reduced functionality version that creates more work for the programmer. Come on Microsoft why can’t you follow even the simplest of standards? In this case it would make coding the
about 3 years ago - 5 comments
I have received a few requests via email and in comments for more detail on how to get your data back after postback with dynamic controls. This evening I started to put together some code examples and mulled over the details of the article in my head. The first step was to re-read my previous
about 3 years ago - 2 comments
ban comic sans: putting the sans in comic sans I saw this on reddit today and thought it would amuse a few of you as it did me. I have used Comic Sans on occasion to mimic comic book style in Photoshop and it looks great. The guys at Little Gamers also use it for
about 3 years ago - No comments
In my Google Reader account I have a few blogs that use the Gravatar icon linking in the comments section. Today I have finally fully decided that I will never (unless something changes) add these to my blog. For weeks now I have been noticing that blogs are loading very slowly and sometimes the comments
about 3 years ago - No comments
Well I have another strong point to add to my list (which I haven’t written down anywhere yet) of reasons why Web Applications are the best way to go for the future. You can’t trust software these days given the maliciousness of “Black Hat” developers and scammers. We just got the reports about a new
about 3 years ago - 7 comments
October has come and gone and so down must come the Pink for October theme. I’ve been working on this theme in my spare hours but overall I really like it. Nothing revolutionary, no JavaScript, one Internet Explorer 6- CSS file (gif replacement for the transparent png logo) and yet its a great leap forward
about 3 years ago - 2 comments
I recently checked out the source code written by our in-house web designer for the main page of the Housing and Residence website. To my surprise she had used some tags that I initially didn’t believe was valid markup. I quickly realized how wrong I was, kicked my self for my ignorance and set off
about 4 years ago - No comments
I am a code control freak. If I don’t understand every aspect of how something works I can’t get comfortable using it. I don’t know a lot of programmers so I don’t know how common this is in the community. At work I program in ASP.Net using Visual Studio 2005, however, I only use it