Dave (a Subtext developer) just blogged about a project template he created for creating Atlas applications using the Web Application Project (WAP). This is wicked useful for those of us who prefer Web Application Projects over Web Site Projects. Tags: ASP.NET, Atlas
UPDATE: Looks like this will get fixed in the next release according to a comment on Steve’s blog. Steve Harman, a Subtext developer, was prototyping using Atlas in Subtext and encountered a rather problematic bug. Not only did he encounter the bug, he went through the hard work to dig into the source of the bug right down to the line of code and proposes a fix. How is that for constructive criticism? Unfortunately, he hasn't received any response from the Atlas team (at the time of this posting) regarding whether or not they recognize this as a bug...
In general I like to regale my readers with stories of my brave accomplishments, ideally embellished to make me look like a hero. But last night I was dealing with a problem that when I realized the solution, I knew I deserved a big red WTF on my forehead. I was playing around with an Atlas UpdatePanel in a form on some existing code. No matter what I tried, the site would perform what appeared to be a full post back. I started cursing Atlas and it’s gee-whiz-bang-newfangled-broken UpdatePanel. This morning, before work I thought I would take a quick...
Remember my recent post in which I suggested that we need more heuristic approaches to the comment spam problem? Check out this new NoBot control in the Atlas Control Toolkit. I wonder if this came out before or after I wrote my piece, because I don’t want y’all to think I cribbed my ideas from this control. It has a couple features that I mentioned. Forcing the client’s browser to perform a configurable JavaScript calculation and verifying the result as part of the postback. (Ex: the calculation may be a simple numeric one, or may also involve the...