Checkout the new session viewer we put together for Silicon Valley Code Camp. Using one of the very cool Sencha demonstration pages (Forms Dashboard), we build a page that let’s you easily navigate all the sessions as well as express interest in attending them. Come read about it as well as play with it. You don’t have to be logged in, but then you miss half the fun (selecting interest in sessions). The source code is right under your mouse. Press View Source once you are on the page and you’ll see how simple it was to build.
Also, if you have not registered for our code camp, being hold October 8th and 9th at Foothill College for the 6th year in a row, please do so now at our registration page.
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Many of you know of ORCSWeb either by reputation, or by way of Scott Forsyth, one of my ASP.NET MVP brothers. In case you don’t, they are a managed hosting solutions company specializing in Microsoft technologies. I’ve used their basic services for quite a while and have always been very happy. It has always seemed that anytime I’ve called them (and it always seems like the middle of the night) one of their tech support staff is always available to help me, and go the extra mile if necessary.
The company I’m now working at is small and we don’t have a lot of resources to maintain hardware and do operating system type support. We do have a high load requirement so we need a very robust supported solution. Before this, I’d always been in the under $50 per month type plan with ORCSWeb, but I decided I needed more servers and a higher level of support. I really did not know what level of support to expect when signing up for the managed servers but decided to go for it anyway.
All can say is WOW!!! I am over the top impressed.
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I always intended to put the source code for this project online, however I just kept not getting around to it. In this article, I’m attaching a Visual Studio 2008 Solution that includes both the modified CSS Friendly Control Adapter as well as a sample application that demonstrates the technique in this series. I’m actually using the Code Camp CSS since that is the site that this solution was written for. I’ve created a much abbreviated version of the Code Camp Site Project for this demonstration. Below is the source code (finally).
Visual Studio 2008 Solution CSSFriendlyCustomMenu
The solution is load out as follows:
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Things are really heating up here. We just did our walk through of Foothill College to insure we have room for everyone and all the food. (Coffee both mornings, lunches both days, Barbeque Saturday Night and bucket loads of technology sessions). As usual, I had my camera in tow so we could have some pictures.
Timothy Woods, Foothill College Dean checking on rainy day space for us
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The Problem
For the third year in a row, Silicon Valley’s Code Camp is happening. The way I’ve organized the data is that each year I make a fresh new sql server 2005 database catalog. this means that I have one for 2006, one for 2007 and a new one for 2008. I want to do a mailing to all people who have registered to previous code camps and who have not registered yet for this code camp. This way, I can do multiple mailings without worrying about sending to people that who have registered (which would make me look silly for not knowing they registered already). I do not like when people say things like "Ignore this message if you have registered…". In addition we will maintain an opt out list so that people who do not want additional emails sent can request that and not worry about us sending more emails.
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After adding the RSS feed to our Silicon Valley Code Camp Web site I noticed that the feed was not discoverable by Internet Explorer. That is, the little RSS Icon on the toolbar was not finding it.
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Introduction
This article shows how to create a modal windows (not a popup) that displays a login windows (asking for username and password) in the middle of whatever asp.net page you are viewing. It uses the Telerik Modal Radwindow control. At the end of a successful login, the login dialog redirects the web user to some page designated by the author. It requires no Javascript programming by the programmer. Just simple method calls in the asp.net page.
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Introduction
Creating themes for ASP.NET 2.0 is very easy if you follow the standard guidelines Microsoft gives us. Microsoft gives a pretty good discussion in the MSDN article
ASP.NET Themes and Skins Overview. I’ve read it several times but since I don’t do this very often I keep forgetting the simple things. Recently,
I posted a question on ASP.NET forums asking how to have an image automatically come from the correct theme directory. As usual, Dave Sussman
gave me the perfect answer.
"You should store the images under the themes and set the ImageUrl in the skin file. Give the control a SkinID in both the skin file and in the page. When the theme changes the appropriate image will be used."
In this article, I’ll basically explain his answer with an example using the code camp web site.
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(That’s right, Code Camp is coming! 11/8 and 11/9 again at Foothill College)
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So, first, a little background. As many of you know, I’ve been the ring leader of Silicon Valley Code Camp here in northern California for the past 2 years. Since Code Camp is a limited budget, 100% volunteer effort, the most important thing is to have efficient communications between everyone. Attendees, Speakers, Organizer, Sponsors and everyone else involved in the event. To that end, the first code camp web site was created. It was based on CSS provided by Microsoft. Check out the post I made two years ago about it titled "Zero to Professional Web Site in Two Days".
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