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A couple of years ago I was in need of a full featured membership provider provided over web services. I found Shaun Wilde’s project. Shaun’s project provided a membership and role provider over web services, but lacked a profile provider. I added the profile provider.
I ended up changing directions with [...]

I somehow failed to notice that Dean Edwards’ IE7.js was bumped to beta 3 back in February. IE7.js is a javascript library which, when included in your web page, makes MSIE 5-6 behave like MSIE7. I found it to be extremely useful, particularly when dealing with png images.
I’m looking for a change log [...]

I’m not there. But, one of my best friends—and my business partner Scott Faris is! If you see this guy walking around, go introduce yourself.

Then say nice things about me to each other and while buying each other lunch.
By the way, Scott and I recently finished FarisWheel 2.0. [...]

IE 6 will continue to be a problem for web developers for a while longer. Statistics for this site show that even though IE 7 has been out for several months, 30% of my visitors still use IE6. IE 7 is climbing fast (currently at 22%), but still has a ways to go [...]

If you point the ControlToCompare attribute of the CompareValidator at a HiddenField you’ll get an error that looks something like this:
Control ‘hiddenBalance’ referenced by the ControlToCompare property of ‘CompareValidator1′ cannot be validated.

With a small amount of “googling” I found two useful articles:

Validating against the value in a hidden input
MS KB Article 310082

Between these two article [...]

The use of the selectTag HtmlHelper seems to be confusing to a lot of people (judging from the popularity of questions about it in the CakePHP Google Group). Hopefully I can clear up a few things about it.
Parameters
selectTag ($fieldName, $optionElements, $selected=null, $selectAttr=array(), $optionAttr=null, $showEmpty=true, $return=false)
$fieldName will typically be the name of your model in [...]

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 [...]