Walkspoiled

Jim Bonnie's Blog

Author:	jbonnie	Created:	Saturday, March 17, 2007 10:09:43 PM
This is my first Blog. I intend to use it to trace my adventures with Coding, Dotnet, Dotnetnuke, and Golf

TECHBash 2008 on May 10th

By jbonnie on Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:36:21 PM

Thanks to Peter Laudati for a link to the TECHBash 2008 on May 10th. I am registered, see you there.

Since its inception in 2005, TECHbash has evolved into the premier technology conference in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Join an estimated 300 Developers, IT Professionals, CIO’s and Industry Experts from Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and host-state, Pennsylvania. This one day event brings together a broad spectrum of Technology Professionals to network, knowledge share and discuss existing technology solutions to business challenges, as well as preview prerelease products on the bleeding edge. This year, we expanded to three tracks offering more presentations and providing you with more content choices representing a greater breadth of Industry insight. We will open the event with a keynote presentation from the unstoppable juggernaut, Joe Stagner, Program Manager for Microsoft’s Web Tools and Platform Division.Attendees will have the opportunity to:...

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Browser Problems for New Skin - IE6!!!!

By jbonnie on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:44:19 PM

I just realized that some recent site changes look okay on most browsers, but are not showing correctly on IE6. This is affecting my new site skin and the skin for a new project. CSS is nice, but the browser testing can be a real pain.

I tried some site testers but this one did not return the results before they expired them! http://browsershots.org

Maybe I will learn some new cool Agile Tricks at DevTeach for handling this testing, or get another push to move to SilverLight!

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Open Force 2008

By jbonnie on Friday, April 25, 2008 7:42:51 AM

Boy, how time flies. Planning is underway for the 2008 Open Force Conference. It will be in Las Vegas again with Dev Connections, and is sure to be bigger and better than last year.

Cambria bits are sure to be out by then and the DNN framework and modules should have some .net 3.5 goodies.

Here are the abstracts that I submitted. I hope to be there again this year. Will you ?

A Tale of Two Blogs – Comparing DNN’s Blog with SubText Open Source projects provide the unique ability to download the source code for the projects and see how things are implemented. Developers can learn a great deal from looking at the source code of these projects. This includes Dot Net, ASP.NET, the DotnetNuke Framework, and techniques for the development process, building and testing applications. This session focuses on the architecture of the DotNetNuke Blog Module is, how it leverages the DNN framework, and how it is being changed as part of the Cambrian Project. Comparisons to another open source Blog...

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New Skin - green is good!

By jbonnie on Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:47:01 PM

How can you argue with the color of money, or a golf course in the spring time ?

I used a template from www.oswd.org called simply_green, it was developed by a 17 year old student to revamp the look of walkspoiled.com.

Now I plan to get some time on the local course, Sterling Farms in Stamford.

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MIX08 Wrap up

By jbonnie on Friday, March 07, 2008 3:40:24 PM

Mix08 is in the books, and crowds are headed out for Vegas adventures.

Scott Gu started it off and dressed up for the keynote as usual.

There were a number of cool demos, hard to believe that AOL could breathe life into email, but with Silverlight2, well, they did!

But the best for me continues to be the Hard Rock's wall of memorabilia.

Time to go download and check out the new WPF and Silverlight bits :)

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Simple Viirtual Earth Module

By jbonnie on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:23:19 PM

A simple Virtual Earth module has been posted on the downloads section.

It basically shows how to wire up a special javasscript onload event that you put in your module ascx file.

The simple steps to start are:

1) Create a Module and put javascript in to reference Microsofts VE library

2) create a div that will will hold the Virtual Earth Map

3) Add the Javascript onload Function that will create and dsiplay your map

var map = null;var lat = 41.500548;var lon = -72.206397;var zoom = 12;function myOnPageLoad()new VEMap('myMap');new VELatLong(lat, lon), zoom, "r", false);

4) on your modules onload event wireup your onload event from the ascx file

DotNetNuke.UI.Utilities.

DNNClientAPI.AddBodyOnloadEventHandler(Page, "myOnPageLoad();");

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Call for developers for DNN Golf Leauge Module using Subsonic

By jbonnie on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 5:04:34 PM

It has been dormant to long, walkspoiled with no Golf Information!!!

I have a bunch of data and all of the algorithms for building a golf Leauge DNN module.

I had one back in the DNN 3 days, but it was never cleanly packaged.

Please drop me a comment if you are interested in a Golf leauge Module for use or for helping with the development.

We would use subsonic as the DAL.

Jim

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Richard Hale Shaw coming to Stamford in January

By jbonnie on Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:28:46 PM

What a title for a talk,

Resistance is Futile: The Productivity Gains of Moving to LINQ (and XLINQ and DLINQ)

Come check out Richard Hale Shaw in Stamford on Wednesday January 2nd.

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Philly Code Camp January 2008

By jbonnie on Monday, December 17, 2007 9:57:09 PM

The date for the first Philly Camp of 2008 is set. There is an ALT.NET track and room for 400 attendees. Sign up today! Here is the tentative agenda, room assignments and times will be posted by New years:

7:30 Registration, continental breakfast Alt.NET Brian Donahue - Panel Discussion David Laribee - Fundamental Domain-Driven Design Jeremy Jarrell - Decoupling Your Design - Dependency Injection with Windsor Jeff Deville - ASP.NET MVC - A New Way To Build Web Apps Steve Eichert - Behavior Driven Development In Action: The Evolution of TDD Don Demsak - Design Patterns

Architecture Mitch Ruebush - Harish Bidad - BizTalk R2 BAM Chip Lemmon - Entry Level Event Models Tim Dodd - IIS 7 Sam Gentile - ESB/SOA

Business Intelligence Dan Clark - Integrating SQL Server Reporting Service Reports in .NET Applications Dan Hartshorn - Performance Point Mark Scott -...

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North Pole SunSet

By jbonnie on Sunday, December 02, 2007 9:19:20 PM

I got this from one of the chain mail gang..OK Bill, I am sharing it

A scene you will probably never get to see, so take a moment and enjoy.This is the sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point.And, you also see the sun below the moon.

An amazing photo and not one easily duplicated. You may want to pass it on to others.The Chinese have a saying that goes something like this: "When someone shares with you something of value, you have an obligation to share it with others!"

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About Me

Thanks for stopping by. My name is Jim Bonnie and I have been writing software for over 20 years. After building financial data systems for Reuters for nearly 18 years I have started doing contract work and am excited about technology and currently focus on Microsoft solutions. DotNetNuke has helped provide a good introduction to ASP.NET web application development, and I am now starting to branch out into other areas. Data Access techniques and SubSonic is something that I am looking into now. This has helped me get an invitation to speak at Las Vegas at DNN Open Force 07. it was a great time. And I am looking forward to OpenForce08, where I wil be presenting on TDD for DNN.

Reading the codebetter blogs and attending a nothing but .net training class with JP Boodhoo helped spark my interest in ALT.NET. I attended the first conference in Austin Texas, and it was amazing to see Scott Guthrie introduce the ASP.NET MVC framework.