I've moved my blog to http://www.flanders.co.nz/blog Please update your rss reader to http://www.flanders.co.nz/B... http://www.flanders.co.nz/B... ......

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Today I opened a workspace on gotdotnet for an open source blog engine I started writing. Everybody is welcome to join in. The space I have on gotdotnet is not so big which means that you'll have to email me for now to get the complete and current source database. A little bit later this week I will have a demo site/blog running on http://www.nblogr.com ......

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I've been getting much better along with The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework lately. Almost up to the point that it takes me almost the same time to create page in asp.net than it does me to create a page in The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework. Notice the word almost :) And that's optimism talking Anyway it does take a wee while longer to create an The asp.net ......

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If you're not using the control toolkit for The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework and are doing some client side scripting. you may find that the April CTP has doesn't always work in the safari browser. This is in part due to the way that safari attaches events. In the control toolkit they use the following script to "patch" the april CTP of The asp.net 2.0 ......

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I use guids as PK in my databases. I like guids :) But The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework shows them as Object and that gives me some trouble using them in my The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework pages. But to implement your own converter is not so difficult you just inherit from the JavaScriptConverter and override those methods. And afterwards you have to ......

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My friend Miel found this site from poisoned minds. They have a nice breakdow on how time is really spent when developing a website. Of course this is good for a laugh :) I think they do have a point with the pure css lay-out. I for one am a dropshadow fan because if I put 2 divs on top of each other they need to look like there is some distance between ......

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Ruby looks to me like a hack. I'm not the only one with problems there :) http://tabo.aurealsys.com/a... The following is from his blog post : I decided to ignore Ruby for the moment and focus on Rails. What i noted: Very simple to install and set up new projects You create a ......

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Peter has a post giving an overview of some tools that are essential to him as a developer. http://jonesie.net.nz/Essen... I would say that I use most of them but not all and I would like to add a few to the list because i mainly do webdevelopment and that's a different story then winforms.Obviously I made the choice to go for The asp.net ......

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I've come across a french guy's blog who has created an intellisens xsd generator for the The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework framework. He says it's not perfect but I'll take whatever I can get that saves me from writing full words. It's not perfect in the sense that it doesn't show you if something is allowed there or not. The link to the article about ......

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I'd go for sharing thank you :) I've learnt a lot from other people's blogs etc. I try to give some of it back but am affraid i don't do so much exiting stuff :) Kathy Sierra has a much longer post about whether you should share or guard your knowledge. In my opinion there is only one thing to do with knowledge and that is to share whatever you have, ......

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Vladimir Bychkov explains it nicely. http://vladimir.bychkov.inf... This will take a lot of the pain out of creating themes :) ......

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Tonight we had a user group meeting on XForms. First let me tell you that I think it is a big shame that we don't get Xforms capabilities in IE6 or in IE7.It would get rid of all the javascript hassle and hoops we have to go through to get the simplest things done. Anyway, I've been working with The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework a bit more now. And it ......

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The company that hosts one of the servers that I use online is using OpenVPN as their vpn server. And there are no drivers available voor the enhanced security model of Windows vista. Yep let's call it enhanced security model instead of f***** security dialog boxes that pop up whenever you want to do something that is not an installed program on your ......

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Apart from the fact that my bluetooth headset won't work with vista. I do have a few other things that keep my mind busy. I think it sucks I can't debug my asp.net apps when they are hosted on a UNC share. (this behavior was already present in XP) If you are like me then you rarely turn off your pc and have it do a lot of stuff for maintenance during ......

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I installed vista on my laptop yesterday. And the whole install is very hands-off and painless the price you pay is that it takes ages to complete. But it did install and upgrade my windows XP machine. After booting my new system twice I grabbed the phone and ordered 2GB of extra memory because before vista i was already pushing it so now it's just ......

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