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Building and Implementing a Custom Atlas Extender with Visual Studio 2005

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Pre-requisites:

Atlas Framework
Atlas Control Toolkit

Summary
The Atlas Control Toolkit site does a good job a walking through all the steps necessary to build a custom extender. You’ll want to refer to that site for more general detail. I’m going to show you my own custom implementation.
I needed a control that would sum all the TextBoxes [...]

Editing hasAndBelongsToMany (HABTM) Relationships in CakePHP

Monday, August 21st, 2006

I had a difficult time wrapping my head around how to do this. The manual is not much help. I did get a few clues from a couple of Wiki articles, but in the end I had to piece all this together with stuff I dug out of the CakePHP Google Group.
Let’s assume [...]

Jack Bauer Facts

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Top 100 Jack Bauer Facts
My favorites include:

If everyone on “24″ followed Jack Bauer’s instructions, it would be called “12″.
Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
When Google can’t find something, it asks Jack Bauer for help.
During the commercials, Jack Bauer calls the CSI detectives and solves their crimes.

Technorati Tags: 24, jackbauer, tv

LAMP on Ubuntu 6.06

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Chris Fay has a well written tutorial on how to install and configure Ubuntu 6.06 LAMP server. He also walks through the steps to install the Gnome desktop, Webmin, and ProFTPD.
I found a prettier version of the same tutorial. It includes comments by others, followup by Chris, and links to related tutorials.Technorati [...]

SXSW Interactive 2007

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

2007.sxsw.com has been unveiled in preparation for March 9-18, 2007 in Austin, Texas. Now through September 29th is your chance to get the best available registration rate. Programming will probably not be announced until the weeks before the conference, although hints will be thrown out.

Panels at the 2007 event will cover [...]

MSDN Event - See You There?

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

I will be attending the upcoming MSDN Event, Get Connected with the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio® 2005 (and Beyond). This event is occuring in about 50 locations across the United States; I’ll be attending in Dallas on 8/17.
Details:

Session 1: Exploring the System.Net Namespace in the .NET Framework 2.0
Session 2: Windows Communication Foundation [...]

Shane vs Rory

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

Rory Blyth is something of an w3 rockstar. A search for “Shane” on Google finally turns up results for me on about page 5; “Rory” is result 1, page 1 (Rory’s remarks). I do show well for the full “Shane Shepherd”, but Rory dominates many, many, many pages for his full name. [...]

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