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Error While Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on Windows XP

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

I’m setting up a new PC with all the tools a Web Developer might need. While installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005, I encountered the following error during setup: SQL Server Setup failed to obtain system account information for the ASPNET account. To proceed, reinstall the .NET Framework, and then run SQL Server Setup again. This [...]

PHP Link Flood

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

My favorite PHP sites: 100% PHP PHP.net PHP-Scripts Blog PHP Developer Marco Tabini PHP Freaks Cake PHP CakePHP The Bakery CakePHP for Beginners H3RALD WithCake Occasional PHP Shaun Inman Snook There and Back Again Technorati Tags: php, links

Microsoft “Atlas” Overview – Lubbock .NET Users Group Presentation

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

I’ve posted the slides and demos for my recent presentation on the technology formerly known as “Atlas” (it is now known as the Microsoft AJAX Library, ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions, and ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit). I’ve haven’t been able to get my connection to the SQL 2005 Express .mdf file to work yet, so not [...]

September LDNUG

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Free pizza, soft drinks and .NET! It’s not Geek Meet, but it’s close! All we need now is a our own Flickr photo group. (Eat your heart out Rob) This month’s LDNUG meeting will take place on September 19th at 7pm at 5808 4th St. (INCODE) – Lubbock, TX. I will be presenting. The talk [...]

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 [...]

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 we [...]

Is Wally McClure Going to Switch?

Friday, July 21st, 2006

ASP.NET guru Wally McClure is considering the purchase of a Mac. What’s next? Could the .NET Framework for the Intel Mac be far away? (Yes, I know about Mono) Steve Ballmer with an iPod? Maybe hell is about to freeze over?!?! More info about switching Technorati Tags: ASP.NET, iPod, Microsoft, Apple, switch