February 2006 - Posts

Rob Howard is doing a series of video blog items...

Below are the links to the videos, they look to me quite inspiractional...  

  • Tips & Tricks #1 - Inline Editing and Content Parts (very cool features shown off here, that many people don't know about)
  • Tips & Tricks #2 - Blogging By Email (Yes, you can blog by email now)
  • Tips & Tricks #3 - Dealing with SPAM (shows off the new anti-spam tools)
  • Brief overview of Community Server
  • Web Installation Tutorial
  • Windows/MSI Installation Tutorial
  • Brief overview of Forums Features
  • License Installation

     

     

  • Anthem.Net v1.0 has just been released a while back.

    For those of you who are using Ajax.Net Pro.  You might want to have a look at this:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/anthem-dot-net

     

    I was quite surprised a while back when someone made some comments on xhtml not being a wise standard to be implemented in websites.

    I was a bit intrigued by this, after all the format has been out for quite a while and a lot of people seem to think it is a lot better then the good old html 4.01 standard.

    The main difference being that the xhtml pages could be parsed by xml processors, below is a list of links with the starting article being a good starting point with links to the other articles.

    The very short summary:
    There isn't any simple / decent way to serve xhtml v1 at the moment because of the way it is set up and the lack of support of IE 6.


    http://turnipspatch.com/xhtml-vs-html/

    http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

    http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/archive.php?id=2005/03/14/xhtml-is-dead

    http://www.ookingdom.com/design/quitting

    In-Place Editing with Atlas Behaviors
    This post demonstrates a custom Atlas script component and associated extender control to enable in-place editing (i.e., Labels that morph into TextBoxes upon focus in an AJAXish manner). Source code included...
    http://www.nikhilk.net/AtlasInPlaceEditSample.aspx

    Virtualizing Access to Content: Serving Your Web Site from a ZIP File
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/vpp_vga.asp

    Site full of VB.Net tips:
    http://www.vb-tips.com/

    Customizing TreeNodes with RenderPreText and RenderPostText:
    http://weblogs.asp.net/dannychen/archive/2006/01/25/436454.aspx

    Ajax for .Net comparison
    http://www.daniel-zeiss.de/AJAXComparison/Results.htm

    Generated flash datagrid:
    http://www.crunchycode.com/video/Tutorial002b.html

    3 Column layout in a nice form
    http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail