Posts from March, 2007

Some good, some bad...some very, very ugly!
Last weekend found me in the position where I had to buy a new computer. Not a situation where I *wanted* to buy one, but my long-standing development machine finally gave up the ghost.

I had considered building a new box myself and sticking with Windows XP Professional, but I didn't have the luxury of time to wait for all the parts to arrive.

CompUSA had a pretty good deal going on the Gateway GT5408 with Vista Home Premium installed along with the usual host of software, 1Gb of
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Not bad...with one complaint
I've been working on a new project for a few weeks now and have been trying to blend in the Microsoft Ajax 1.0 extensions and controls where appropriate.

One good illustration is the Cascading DropdownList Extender coupled with WebMethods to drive the population of the dropdowns. Because the feature in question has four dependent dropdowns, this seemed like a great place implement this process.

Creating the presentation and the relations between the dropdowns is fairly
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