Archive for November, 2002
Wednesday, November 27th, 2002
PlanPlus uses third-party RTF controls
Thanks to Franklin Covey for the “hot tip” on Easy Byte’s RTF-2-HTML control. It is included with their PlanPlus product in the Program Files area. So far, I am really enjoying the PlanPlus product, but I have this nagging question about where my data is stored, and if I can get access to it programmatically [...]
No Comments » - Posted in E-Publishing Explosion, Tech Tips by jmiller
Tuesday, November 26th, 2002
Martin Schulze Steps Down As SPI Vice President [Slashdot]
No Comments » - Posted in Open Source by jmiller
Monday, November 25th, 2002
RIP, DOS
MS-DOS 1981-2002 RIP [Slashdot]
No Comments » - Posted in Brave New World by jmiller
Monday, November 25th, 2002
PDA Usage
Do People Really Use Their PDAs? [Slashdot]
No Comments » - Posted in Mobile Computing by jmiller
Monday, November 25th, 2002
SpamAssassin
SpamAssassin is an open-source spam-filtering application aimed at UNIX systems.
No Comments » - Posted in Open Source by jmiller
Thursday, November 21st, 2002
Hunch: If you embed a HTML control (like a hidden field) in a Template column in a DataGrid or DataList control, you must add the runat=”server” attribute to the control or else the FindControl method on the Item object for that row will return nothing.
No Comments » - Posted in ASP.NET by jmiller
Thursday, November 21st, 2002
Bogus! OK, ASP.NET throws an exception if you try to reference the Page.IsValid property before either calling Page.Validate() or posting back based on a control that has a “CausesValidation” property of true. The problem is that you can set AutoPostBack to True on drop-down lists, but it DOESN'T HAVE A CAUSESVALIDATION PROPERTY! Why not?? So, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in ASP.NET by jmiller
Thursday, November 21st, 2002
Open Source Content Management Systems
Here are a couple that looked worth doing more research on:
OpenCMSMidgard
No Comments » - Posted in E-Publishing Explosion, Knowledge Management, Open Source by jmiller
Thursday, November 21st, 2002
Blog Memory
As I suspected, others are talking about the concept of a blog as an archive for knowledge, even “memory.” Even, as I had pondered, the idea that someday, our descendants will read the contents of these works that we are writing today.
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Thursday, November 21st, 2002
LockerGnome
Against my better judgment, I am subscribing to what appears to be another news bloater. Haven’t I learned this lesson already?
