Posted on October 30th, 2008%
In exploring alternatives for low-cost hosting providers, I did some research and decided to give MochaHost a shot. They seemed to offer reasonably-priced plans with a solid set of features and a 30-day money backguarantee — can’t go wrong there.
After getting the confirmation e-mail that my account was set up, I went in, created a subdomain, and tried configuring it for ASP.Net — when I got an error from the control panel. OK, maybe the hosting account wasn’t fully configured yet. It was a Friday, and I decided to wait until the next week.
A few days later (this past Tuesday), I go back in to see if I can configure an ASP.Net directory — still no luck, same error. I submit a ticket to their support staff, and was told that problem would be fixed (this was on 10/28 at 10AM).
I went in to the control panel again today, tried to configure ASP.Net, and got the same error. Instead of going . . .
→ Read More: MochaHost: Subpar service and support
Posted on October 24th, 2008%
I recently implemented a new control adapter for the CheckBoxList control, with lots of available functionality, as the first component in the (relatively new) ASP.Net Control Adapters open source project. It’s not complete, but it is definitiely functional.
Since the RadioButtonList control is very similar, I decided to implement it. After five minutes (mostly spent copy/pasting and renaming CheckBox to RadioButton), I had a RadioButtonList control adapter that had the same functionality as the existing CheckBoxList control adapter. Very cool!
Part of the testing process is to examine the HTML rendered by the default controls, comparing it to the adapted controls, to make sure whatever is implemented is done properly. In that process, I found one odd behavior related to the AccessKey property.
With the CheckBoxList control, the AccessKey property is applied to each input type=checkbox. With the RadioButtonList, the AccessKey property is applied to each input type=radio when the RepeatLayout is set to Flow. However, set the RepeatLayout to Table, and . . .
→ Read More: New CheckBoxList and RadioButtonList control adapters
Posted on October 23rd, 2008%
You can’t make this up:
http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=.MlTwCT6Q8Wi04LewBU4RDI4NjQyMTQ-
Well, maybe you can make this up. In the interest of full disclosure, I must correct the record.
I vote every year.
I will not vote for Obama.
More details on why I state #2 in a future post.
. . .
→ Read More: Obama’s loss traced to Brian DeMarzo
Posted on October 4th, 2008%
Over the past few weeks, I started doing some experimentation with a different approach to changing the rendering of default ASP.Net controls. For a few years, I (and many others) have used the CSSFriendly project for this. That project does some nice things, but has many shortcomings.
I hemmed and hawed about this a bit (see Rewriting the ASP.Net CSS Friendly Adapters – does anyone care?), but in the end some fundamental interest — and the underlying popularity of the CSSFriendly project (consistently in the top-20 downloads on CodePlex) made me decide to go ahead with it.
So, I am proud to announce a new open source project: the ASP.Net Control Adapters! . . . → Read More: Announcing the ASP.Net Control Adapters, a new open source project
Posted on October 2nd, 2008%
I just received the following in an email from the campaign of Michael McMahon for Congress:
Dear Friends:
I write to ask for your support in my campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives for New York’s 13th Congressional District, which includes all of Staten Island and a portion of Brooklyn. I graduated from Farrell in 1975, and with your support we can make sure that this Congressional seat stays a Lion seat in 2008!
Mike McMahon and I went to the same high school (he graduated 13 years before me). Yes, I’ve seen his name emblazoned on signs throughout my neighborhood and others in this election season. Not knowing much else about him, I decided to go to his web site, MikeMcMahonForCongress.com, to find out.
A lot of it was political fluff, and nothing shook me good or bad, until I got to the Michael on Social Security page, which says:
Since its creation in 1935, Social Security has been the single most successful domestic program that our government has ever run…
Replacing our current Social Security system with privatized investment accounts is simply unacceptable, and I strongly oppose it.
That’s all it took to convince me not to support Mike McMahon. Why? Well, I wrote him a letter about it, and I share it with you below.
. . . → Read More: Why I won’t support Mike McMahon for Congress
