Recently I was invited by Scott Mendenhall, the organizer of the Web Content Mavens User Group, to be a panelist on DotNetNuke.

The meeting's topic is Open Source Web CMS. It is on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 7:00 PM at R.F.D. Washington, 810 7th St. NW, Washington , DC 20001. If you wish to attende you can sign up at the meetup site.

The discussion will be moderated...

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I don't know about you, but for the past two years I have been using a virtual machine to do all my development. The thought process is simple:

I can back up the entire machine into one file I can have as many configurations as I wish (operating systems, IDE version DB Servers, etc) Clearly defines my business workspace versus my development workspace Well, there is lots more, but I am not try to sell you on using virtualization...

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If you are a developer and like me you mostly develop data driven applications, then I am sure that you have had to write a couple of paging functions and controls. I very rarely use the asp.net datagrid control as I find it bloated and harder to customize its UI. Instead I use the handy and much lighter weigth datalist and repeater controls.

Of course the drawback with the afore mentioned controls is that they do not come equipped with an...

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The other day I had to build a simple listing of data that required having a radio button on each line so as to enable a user to select and option. I planned to use a datalist control and to place a radio button control in the itemtemplate.

When I ran a quick test I immediately noticed a peculiar issue, all the radio buttons where selectable at the same time!

As usual, I googled the symptom and quickly found that there seems to be an...

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