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Dan Maharry

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• WebDD 2009

  Posted: 19 Apr 2009 at 07:49 by DanM

  Saturday morning saw the second free WebDD conference take place. Amongst the presentations, Mike Ormond and Alex Mackey spoke on things forthcoming in .NET 4.0, Sebastien Lambla spoke at a rate of knots about MVC best practices despite his computer blue-screening mid-presentation, and I introduced those interested to IIS 7.0 Extensions, the Lightweight Test Framework, the new ASP.NET Chart Control and the History State and Script Combining features of the ScriptManager. The code and slides for

• Speaking at WebDD 09

  Posted: 26 Mar 2009 at 08:48 by DanM

  Woot! I’ve been invited to give my first full presentation at WebDD ’09 on April 18. I’ll be giving the talk “ASP.NET 3.5 – Miss Something?” in which I’ll look at the out of band ASP.NET-related releases that Microsoft have made since they first dropped ASP.NET 3.5. Charts, Browser History plug-ins, IIS plug-ins, Service Pack 1 and more. Can’t wait for the event. Hopefully I’m not speaking at the same time as Barry. I’d really like to s

• Speaking at WebDD 09

  Posted: 26 Mar 2009 at 06:48 by DanM

  Woot! I’ve been invited to give my first full presentation at WebDD ’09 on April 18. I’ll be giving the talk “ASP.NET 3.5 – Miss Something?” in which I’ll look at the out of band ASP.NET-related releases that Microsoft have made since they first dropped ASP.NET 3.5. Charts, Browser History plug-ins, IIS plug-ins, Service Pack 1 and more. Can’t wait for the event.

• Bring Her Home

  Posted: 05 Mar 2009 at 14:00 by DanM

  Badly injured Bay Area girl, in a coma in India - kept for a while in horrid conditions, and without proper medical attention. Though she is in a better hospital than she was previously, being home for the rest of her care would help her, and her family a lot. Family and friends are trying to raise the money for that. You can help bring her home by going here, and donating anything - a few dollars, a few more. Please don’t think you can’t make a difference on this one, those pennies

• Bring Her Home

  Posted: 05 Mar 2009 at 12:00 by DanM

  Badly injured Bay Area girl, in a coma in India - kept for a while in horrid conditions, and without proper medical attention. Though she is in a better hospital than she was previously, being home for the rest of her care would help her, and her family a lot. Family and friends are trying to raise the money for that. You can help bring her home by going here, and donating anything - a few dollars, a few more.

• Sessions for WebDD 2009

  Posted: 26 Feb 2009 at 14:18 by DanM

  As Dave announced last week, a second web-only DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day will take place at Microsoft UK in Reading on April 18 to coincide with this year's MIX event in Las Vegas. Sessions are now being proposed and I have submitted a couple for your consideration. MVC102 There are lots of podcasts and videos online these days that introduce how the M, V and C fit together in the MVC framework. Beyond this, and the fact that it makes use of the ASP.NET core framework, there's not much m

• Sessions for WebDD 2009

  Posted: 26 Feb 2009 at 12:18 by DanM

  As Dave announced last week, a second web-only DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day will take place at Microsoft UK in Reading on April 18 to coincide with this year's MIX event in Las Vegas. Sessions are now being proposed and I have submitted a couple for your consideration. MVC102 There are lots of podcasts and videos online these days that introduce how the M, V and C fit together in the MVC framework. Beyond this, and the fact that it makes use of the ASP.

• TinyMCE, .NET, UpdatePanels and DataBinding

  Posted: 20 Feb 2009 at 14:22 by DanM

  (In which the question of getting TinyMCE to DataBind successfully in UpdatePanels is partially solved, but Chrome refuses to play nicely.) There seems to be a common cry of agony when you try to stick a TinyMCE-adorned textarea in an UpdatePanel. Partial page updates strip the iFrame that TinyMCE’s init script lays onto the textarea. The UpdatePanel also seems to prevent TinyMCE’s built-in trigger from updating the underlying textarea in non-IE browsers (oh the irony) which means th

• TinyMCE, .NET, UpdatePanels and DataBinding

  Posted: 20 Feb 2009 at 12:22 by DanM

  (In which the question of getting TinyMCE to DataBind successfully in UpdatePanels is partially solved, but Chrome refuses to play nicely.) There seems to be a common cry of agony when you try to stick a TinyMCE-adorned textarea in an UpdatePanel. Partial page updates strip the iFrame that TinyMCE’s init script lays onto the textarea.

• First Impressions of MVC

  Posted: 06 Feb 2009 at 22:22 by DanM

  [In which ASP.NET MVC is initially judged by its beta 1 cover, reappraised after the first few weeks on development, and pigeon-holed for now post-RC1. Or rather, here are my thoughts on using ASP.NET MVC to build a web site.] Just before Christmas, I was asked to build a web site using the nascent ASP.NET MVC framework, which was in beta at the time. Two months later, it’s now at release candidate level and the final build is expected to go gold in March, so there’ll be the inevitab

• First Impressions of MVC

  Posted: 06 Feb 2009 at 20:22 by DanM

  [In which ASP.NET MVC is initially judged by its beta 1 cover, reappraised after the first few weeks on development, and pigeon-holed for now post-RC1. Or rather, here are my thoughts on using ASP.NET MVC to build a web site.] Just before Christmas, I was asked to build a web site using the nascent ASP.NET MVC framework, which was in beta at the time.

• Another film finished

  Posted: 02 Feb 2009 at 15:16 by DanM

  From time to time, I am invited to help out with some film-making by my friends Dan and James. Indeed, early last year I spent a couple of days with them manning the camera for their current project Iniquity. Dan let me know last night that he and James have just finished editing Iniquity and have submitted it for inclusion at the Edinburgh Film Festival in June this year. So I’m crossing my fingers for them and hoping that one day soon I’ll get my own legitimate IMDB entry. From the

• Another film finished

  Posted: 02 Feb 2009 at 13:16 by DanM

  From time to time, I am invited to help out with some film-making by my friends Dan and James. Indeed, early last year I spent a couple of days with them manning the camera for their current project Iniquity. Dan let me know last night that he and James have just finished editing Iniquity and have submitted it for inclusion at the Edinburgh Film Festival in June this year. So I’m crossing my fingers for them and hoping that one day soon I’ll get my own legitimate IMDB entry.

• Where I Am On The Internet

  Posted: 22 Jan 2009 at 10:00 by DanM

  For those of you subscribed to this blog via Feedburner, you may not have noticed, but a few things have changed around here. For a start, the homepage for this blog is now http://blog.hmobius.com. It runs BlogEngine 1.4.5 and currently sports a rather fetching Dark Neon variant of Mads’ original standard theme. I also took the time to collate all the entries from 2000 onwards into the one place and do a spot of housekeeping as well, so there’s most likely some stuff you’ve not

• Where I Am On The Internet

  Posted: 22 Jan 2009 at 08:00 by DanM

  For those of you subscribed to this blog via Feedburner, you may not have noticed, but a few things have changed around here. For a start, the homepage for this blog is now . It runs BlogEngine 1.4.5 and currently sports a rather fetching Dark Neon variant of Mads’ original standard theme.

• Links for 2009-01-11 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 12 Jan 2009 at 00:00

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• A Playlist for 2008

  Posted: 05 Jan 2009 at 22:16 by Dan Maharry

  A couple of days late but there were a few CDs in Santa’s sack so here’s my track list of highlights from 2008. Not all from 2008 but I bought them then, so hey. Guns and Roses - Chinese Democracy It has to be said that if even one track from the unicorn that was the new GnR album was any good, then Axl Rose was going to exceed expectations. Then lo and behold, two tracks turned out to be OK. Don’t think I’ll be holding my breath for the next album though. Gutter Twins - Bete Noire The Gutter Tw

• A Playlist for 2008

  Posted: 31 Dec 2008 at 23:46 by DanM

  A couple of days late but there were a few CDs in Santa’s sack so here’s my track list of highlights from 2008. Not all from 2008 but I bought them then, so hey. Guns and Roses - Chinese Democracy It has to be said that if even one track from the unicorn that was the new GnR album was any good, then Axl Rose was going to exceed expectations. Then lo and behold, two tracks turned out to be OK. Don’t think I’ll be holding my breath for the next album though. Gutter Twins -

• A Playlist for 2008

  Posted: 31 Dec 2008 at 21:46 by DanM

  A couple of days late but there were a few CDs in Santa’s sack so here’s my track list of highlights from 2008. Not all from 2008 but I bought them then, so hey. Guns and Roses - Chinese Democracy It has to be said that if even one track from the unicorn that was the new GnR album was any good, then Axl Rose was going to exceed expectations. Then lo and behold, two tracks turned out to be OK. Don’t think I’ll be holding my breath for the next album though.

• Links for 2008-12-18 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 19 Dec 2008 at 00:00

  ASP.NET Dynamic Data Microsoft's official home for their Dyanmic Data Framework David Ebbo's blog ASP.NET team member blogging about Dynamic Data and other bits