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June Accomplishments
SelecTrucks We launched four new sites this month: Grand Rapids, Little Rock, Miami, and Nashville. Miami is a particularly striking design, heavily inspired by old cigar and fruit boxes. We were playing a bit of catch-up this month, but we managed to get back on our feet with a new production process that's resulting in these [...]
May Accomplishments
SelecTrucks In the last month, we launched three more SelecTrucks sites (Chicago, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles), and got one more to Alpha, but at that point we were two-three weeks behind on the project, depending on which estimate you were looking at, and with a major redesign on my desk for Detroit Diesel, it was clear [...]
April Accomplishments
Training I continued my ASP.NET 2.0 training, and have gotten through five chapters in my book, the most recent about theming. Based on this, I gave a presentation to the office titled .NET 101, which just gave a brief overview of what .NET is and isn’t, and an really short demo of how to use Visual [...]
ASP.net Training Exercises – Chapter Five
1. You have an ASP.NET Label control on a page. The label has a font-italic="true" attribute, and a CssClass="maintext" attribute. The page has an associated CSS style sheet (not associated with a theme) that defines a .main-text style class. This style class has the following attributes: <asp:label id="myLabel" CssClass="maintext" font-italic="true" text="This is a label"></asp:label> .maintext { [...]
ASP.net Training Exercises – Chapter Four
Chapter is about Membership and Security, and due to some complications in-house, I can’t post the sample website I built for the chapter, so I’m just going to post the questions here, and then talk about what I did… 1. Change the configuration of your test site to allow anonymous access, but to deny access to [...]
ASP.net Training Exercises – Chapter Three
(No questions in this chapter, just exercises, so I’ve uploaded the HTML pages of the final results). 1. Practice using the drag-and-drop functionality of VWD to put together a simple web page that displays the following information: The WroxUnited Logo (or an image of your choice). The names of the players and some information about them, arranged in a [...]
ASP.net Training Exercises – Chapter Two
Describe the functional differences between the Web.config file and Global.asax. Web.config is used to store settings for the site, such as database connection strings and default error pages. Global.asax is used to hold code for the entire site that is executed under certain circumstances, called “events” – when the application starts or stops, when the users starts [...]
ASP.net Training Exercises – Chapter One
Explain the differences among the .NET 2.0 Framework, ASP.NET 2.0, VWD, and IIS. The .NET Framework is the overall framework that allows programmers to write in various .NET-compatable languages to create ASP web pages. ASP.NET is the .NET framework implimentation of Active Server Pages. Visual Web Developer is the free version of Visual Studio, which is a [...]
Ugly and Inelegant
As the first step in learning more about .NET and presentation-level programming, my boss asked me to watch a training video about ASP.NET development. I was expecting some sort of 101-level intro to ASP.NET thing, but was extremely disappointed with the video. I honestly feel that I learned next to nothing from this, though it [...]
