- // Posted on May 13, 2008 by
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It has been a few weeks since I last blogged, but I wanted to assure everyone that I have not disappeared. The last month has presented a lot of time consuming projects, tasks, and travel that has left me little time to blog. :/
Currently I am playing with the ASP.NET MVC Framework, jQuery, and a Flickr-integrated viewing gallery implementing FlickrNet. I am nearly finished the prototype and I think it is pretty neat! A lot of you have contacted me in the past regarding my photo gallery solutions for BlogEngine.NET so I intend to work on a solution that will work for BlogEngine.NET users. Heck, maybe I'll even have a little multi-part series on how to create your very own!
- // Posted on Apr 21, 2008 by
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After four days of ASP.NET AJAX training with Stephen Walther I set out to learn more about my options in choosing a solution for a JavaScript/Ajax framework. If I realized days later I would be writing this comprehensive post on 7 of the most popular frameworks, I may have just went with the "Inny-Minny-Miney-Moe" method! I decided to share my research, analysis, links, resources, and personal grade for each of the frameworks compared - jQuery, YUI, Prototype, Dojo, MooTools, Ext JS, and Script.aculo.us. I put together a comparison matrix to illustrate where many of the frameworks differ.
What do you use in your applications, and, more importantly, would you recommend it?
- // Posted on Apr 13, 2008 by
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A fellow BlogEngine.NET user (who's name I do not know unfortunately) alerted me to an issue on my website where you could retrieve my site's user credentials by accessing the JavaScript HttpHandler via a browser and requesting my users.xml file as seen in the following screenshot. Now I would not label myself as a "security expert" by any means, but I think this issue falls under the Crazy Bad category.
I took a look at the code in the BlogEngine.Core project and found out that the issue is with the RetrieveLocalScript() method. Here's the code from BlogEngine.NET Version 1.3:
- Tags: bugs, news
- Categories: ASP.NET | Blogging
- // Posted on Apr 7, 2008 by
Danny
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I spent last week in an interactive workshop focused on ASP.NET AJAX and MVC with Stephen Walther from Superexpert Training, and came out of the class very happy with both the material and the instructor. Stephen took the time to offer a customized training agenda that met specific business needs at my current company. His practical examples and personalized training approach really made for a great experience.
AJAX is a long-running interest of mine dating back to Michael Schwartz's Ajax.NET framework (circa 2005). I have dabbled in testing out a variety of Ajax frameworks (hint for my next post), but never spent a significant amount of time learning the principles behind the architecture. Learning the details around client-side and server-side approaches to implementing Ajax was particularly intriguing. I even learned how to build my very own client-side ASP.NET AJAX controls! Neat!!
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- Categories: ASP.NET | Reviews | Ajax
- // Posted on Mar 5, 2008 by
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I will be leaving for the city that never sleeps (Las Vegas) tomorrow and will not be returning until Tuesday. My apologies for missing today's toolbox links, but I'm swamped trying to get everything together last minute for this trip. In the meantime be sure to check out the following links from Mix '08...
Mix '08 Update
Also you can keep up with the latest content from Mix '08 at http://visitmix.com/tags/MIX08/.
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I will be not be online during this vacation, except for the occasional twitter update. Enjoy and have a good weekend! =]
- // Posted on Mar 3, 2008 by
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With Mix '08 less than a week away and the release of Silverlight 2.0 staring us down I was really excited to see this post and video detailing MLB.com completely rebuilding their video streaming service using Silverlight 1.0. There is a great interview with MLB.com's lead developer and director of Product Development.
Original Post can be found at http://www.infoq.com/interviews/mlb-silverlight
- // Posted on Feb 27, 2008 by
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As promised I am back this week with my weekly toolbox links where I share various links to tools, websites, code, news, and more. In recent weeks I have focused on one particular theme, however I have a few tools, a few code samples, and a few developer links this week. Enjoy!
As always, feel free to submit toolbox suggestions to ddouglass@gmail.com.
- // Posted on Feb 27, 2008 by
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SilverlightShow has a nice post up detailing the controls that will be available in the Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 release. The news was originally posted on Shawn Burke's blog, but it appears that the he was forced to take down the screen shot. Thanks to SilverlightShow that graphic is still visible and is also now posted on my blog. Exciting stuff!
In case you missed the announcement from ScottGu about the Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 release, you can read all about it here. I'm really looking forward to playing around with this beta! [Screenshot in full post]
- // Posted on Feb 8, 2008 by
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In my previous post I announced an extension for BlogEngine.NET that utilized a rich Silverlight application called Slide.Show built by Vertigo. It was one of three products in their ".Show" line - the other two being Video.Show and Family.Show. I'm only going to discuss the first two as I plan to focus on the media sharing applications offered by Vertigo. Both applications are open source (available for download on CodePlex) and are cross broswer compatible (IE 6 and 7, Firefox 2, and Safari 3).
- Slide.Show - Slide.Show shows off some of the latest Silverlight technologies while also providing an elegant and simple photo sharing user experience.
- Video.Show - Show provides Silverlight 1.0 video controls, Silverlight Streaming hosting integration, leveraging Expression Encoder's ability to handle most popular video formats. We’ve set things up so you can be uploading videos within minutes, and we’ve added in some cool features like time-based video comments, so your comments will be synchronized with the video playback.
- // Posted on Feb 7, 2008 by
Danny
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I've wanted to build a BlogEngine.NET extension to display a photo gallery since I first starting using this product. Vertigo has made my job easier with Slide.Show, a rich Silverlight application that provides an elegant and simple photo sharing user experience. It also supports direct Flickr integration that I have included as a part of this extension. All you have to do is change one configuration value in the configuration.xml and you are all set to hook into your Flickr account.
A live demo can be found at http://dannydouglass.com/page/photogallery.aspx. My website offers a popup version of this gallery (click the "photos" tab above) that I would be glad to explain in a follow-up post if there is any interest. [Requires Silverlight 1.0]