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I just came across another fantastic plug-in for jQuery, my favorite javascript framework. It is the Ribbon plug-in and it looks amazing. It almost exactly like the ribbon in Office 2010.It supports access keys, themes, lists, groups, forms, and dropdown menus. The demo page can be found at http://vinkr.net/ribbon. The code can be found on More >

I have attended two session where the same repeated problem kept happening to the presenters.
The first SOA201 A First Look at WCF and WF in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 with Aaron Skonnard. For some unknown reason, the slides where advancing without Aaron actually moving them forward. It could have been an evil trick being More >

I realized, while I was here at TechEd 2009, that email wasn’t working for this blog. I use for my blogging software and my hosting provider is . In order to get it to work just go into your setting in blogengine.net and just type mail.webhost4life.com  in the SMTP field and turn off SSL. More >

After the expo last night, I took photos of all the t-shirts I collected. I have both the fronts and the backs pictured. If there is a shirt that I am missing and want it displayed here, make a comment and I will stop by and pick one up and add it to the photos More >

Last year at TechEd I attempted to run around the partner expo and get every t-shirt possible. The fruits of my labor was the post The T-Shirts of TechEd 2008 Developers. I will attempt to recreate the greatness of last years post.
If any of the partners would like to help me out, please comment on More >

At the keynote this morning it was mentioned that there where only seven thousand attendees. I guess with current state of the worldwide economy some of the first things to go is training/conferences, in my opinion it is a mistake. By sending someone to a great confernce, you can learn to better use the tools More >

So I have made it to TechEd in LA. I am staying at the Omni and it is pretty fantastic. I will post some photos up later. My flight over was good and there were no delays. Sitting behind me was Andrew Duthie. He and few others wrote a Silverlight application that will run on More >

If you get the following warning

Error updating JScript IntelliSense:
Object doesn’t support this property or method @2139:1
You need to download and install the following hotfix:
KB958502-JScript Editor support for “-vsdoc.js” IntelliSense documentation files
You can force Visual Studio to update JavaScript IntelliSense by pressing Ctrl + Shift + J.
The funny thing is that JavaScript IntelliSense worked with More >

If you would like to export SmartObjects from blackpearl, there are two ways.
K2 Object Browser in Visual Studio
The trick here is that you have to have a k2 project open. Once you have the k2 project open, browse to your SmartObject and right click. You will see a menu appear with ‘Save to Local’. The More >

I needed an animated loading icon and came across http://www.ajaxload.info/. This website lets you choose the type of icon. There are about 35 different types of icons, such as bar, snake, circle ball, etc. You can also pick background and foreground colors.