Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Using ExtJS to render UI
First off I need to state that learning to use ExtJS has been extremely difficult for me. The roadblocks are:
I’ve made a career out of saying, “I don’t do no stinking UI”
I don’t know HTML or CSS very well
The tutorials, articles and APIs aren’t the best.
I have no Intellisense for ExtJS
Some of these problems […]
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
My bookshelves
I thought I would literally take a snapshot of my bookshelves. These first two are within two feet of my left hand. I would consider these the ones I look at the most.
These next two shelves are the ones that I used maybe 5 - 10 years ago but there still located in my […]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Creating the add person page
I started down this path to create a genealogy project inspired by Ben Lovell’s ‘Incremental development with Monorail’ postings. So I’m now completing my first page based on his Part One.
I’m deviating somewhat from this first part in that I’m dividing my unit tests into two types of tests: unit and integration. In my Genealogist.Tests […]
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Castle and the GAC
I was attempting to write my first controller test using Castle.MonoRail.TestSupport class but was getting a System.TypeLoadException when I ran the unit test. So with some wasted hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong I finally stumbled across a Castle forum topic that said the problem was caused by a “conflict of […]
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Final layout to work with
Last week I had visitors from out of town so I didn’t get much time to work on this when I came home. I now have a final layout that I will work from.
The default.brail file is this:
1: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
2: <html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” […]