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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 [...]

My New Favorite Development Tools

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Every once in a while you come across something that is so cool you don’t know how you ever lived without it. For years I’ve been writing PHP code locally and then FTPing it to a remote server to test as I debugged. I recently discovered a combination of two tools that let [...]

SXSWi 2006: Day 2

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

SXSW 2006 Interactive Panel Podcasts have begun to appear on the SXSW website. Also, for anyone interested, I found a RoR podcast of Geoffrey Grosenbach doing an interview with Shaun Inman; it seems to be a private interview…not a panel discussion. I haven’t had a chance to listen to any of these yet…hopefully [...]

My Favorite Web Applications

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Does “Web Application” imply “Web 2.0″? Your guess is as good as mine. I might even be able to make an educated guess if I knew what Web 2.0 was! I’m going to make sure I attend a seminar or panel at SXSW Interactive with “Web 2.0″ in the title; hopefully someone [...]

Three Things I’m Bringing with me to SXSW

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

I’m going to SXSW and I’m taking three things with me:

a G4 iMac
my favorite pillow
business cards

I’m ready for SXSW! I’ve got my registration, hotel room (Hamilton Inn) and my airplane ticket! I’m interested in user interface design, technology…and I’m excited about making new friends…and meeting some of the folks whose blogs I frequent:
(in [...]

Three Most Used Apps in 2005

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

Molly asked the question: OF ALL THE APPS ON YOUR COMPUTERS, which three did you use the most this year? I may be a little late with this, but here goes anyway. I live a dual life, Windows at work - Apple at home, so I’m accounting for both.
Windows Apps

Exchange
Visual Studio 2003
Firefox

Runners up include [...]

WE05 Podcasts Reviewed

Monday, November 28th, 2005

The challenge of listening in the car is the difficulty (and danger) of jotting down notes when Eureka! moments happen. I’ve been listening to the WE05 podcasts in my car on the way to and from work. I often listen to talk radio in the car, and this is my favorite place [...]

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