By Antonio Chagoury on Friday, February 22, 2008

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 by Scott Mendenhall and will feature the following panelists:

• Keith Casey from Casey Software on Drupal
• Antonio Chagoury from Inspector IT on DotNetNuke Read More »
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  The CTO 2.0

By Antonio Chagoury on Monday, February 18, 2008

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 here, just how to access it from anywhere you want ;)

My setup is fairly simple:

• One powerful desktop machine running Windows Vista Ultimate and hosting Virtual Machines
• Software on this machine is limited to:
  • MS Office and a few other business apps
  • MSN Messenger
  • Skype
  • and a few other productivity tools.

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By Antonio Chagoury on Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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 integrated paging control as the datagrid does, but the folks at DotNetNuke did a fine job at remedying the situation: they built a re-usable Paging Control. If you are a DotNetNuke module developer, you should definitely consider using it instead of building your own. This is exactly what I did, and I am now sharing my experience since finding these "nuggets" of useful built-in functions and controls within Read More »

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The CTO 2.0

By Antonio Chagoury on Friday, February 01, 2008

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 issue with both ASP.net 1.1 and 2.0 where the radio button controls in the list become all selectable (more like checkboxes) while the whole idea behind a radio button is to have just one in the list selectable at a time.

After further reseach, I found that the reason why this is happening is simply because of the way the asp.net assigns the Control's ID at run-time.  Basically this problem occurs because the Repeater/Datalist server control implements the INamingContainer interface, which requires that all controls that are nested within it must have a unique name when rendered in H ... Read More »