So I picked up these books during the week:- ASP.NET 2: A developer's notebook Visual Basic 2005: A developer's notebook On first impressions, they are a bit basic and does not cover all of the new features (especially the ASP.NET 2 ...

Like all saga's, this one has come to an end, here is the history:- (go trackback functionality!) Ordered Alienware (August 9th) Alienware Update  (September 6th) Alienware Australia Update (September 7th) Well, I'm...

My current goal is the category view enhancement for news articles. e.g. you can define at at a category level who can edit and view articles assigned to that category. The only real trick is that you can have multiple categories, so what is the cr...

I found a site with free icons today, it's located here. The reason I needed the icons, was that I wrote a modification to DotNetNuke that allowed "verification" of content in pages. It is not a core mod, I just copied and created a new control pan...

In my last couple of posts I talked about Atlas (Microsoft's implementation of AJAX) and the fact that the World of Warcraft was using AJAX on it's site. (it actually uses a 3rd party script library called Sarissa) I just thought I would clarify a f...

If you want to present at a Tech-Ed, Frank Arrigo has posted the 9 things you should be doing. I can cross off 7, I am missing "get published online" & "write article for magazines" (aren't magazines dead?)

There is some great Atlas (AJAX) content coming out from the PDC. atlas.asp.net Atlas Unleashed Atlas Keynote Walkthrough I've walked through the samples on the atlas.asp.net and they look very cool. I can't wait to use some of t...

In my last post about trackbacks, the internal trackbacks didn't work. This entry is a test to see if internal trackbacks work. Trackback, Pingback, Oh My! I Trackback, Pingback, Oh My! II Yay! It worked!

Now let's see if everything is OK. This post is testing the trackback functionality that is discussed here and here. To test external sites:- We'll see if we can notify Frank Arrigo's Blog of our incoming link about the PDC. And Patri...

The next release is looking great, althought it has taken longer then expected, (although I am almost finished now). You can expect:- Trackback (when someone links to your article, they may send a trackback notification that allows News Artic...