ADAL 1.0.6
Hi all, Options: Download now, or read and then download at the bottom. ADAL 1.0.6 has been released. There is a new feature in this release for anyone doing their own extensions, PopulateFromReader! Basically this method that is available on every Item that ADAL creates will accept a SQLDataReader and...
Frank Caprio Wants to Rule the Universe
Today some of my friends and I noticed that the Frank Caprio namebrand seems to be everywhere. Whether it’s his huge picture on State websites, or his own CaprioTV, it appears the eventual plan is for world domination. Having seen too many Simpsons and Family Guy episodes, we have...
ADAL 1.0.5
An official release of ADAL, version 1.0.5 is available form the ADAL SourceForge.net download page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/adal). There’s a couple new features in this version, most notably: Uses an .msi installer Has “File Save” and “File Open” commands that write the current configuration to a custom XML file so you...
ADAL – Gone Open Source
I decided to make ADAL Open Source. “Why not?” I figured. I never planned on charging for it, and now that it’s open source I get to host it at SourceForge and get the use of their Subversion Source Control servers. So anyway, I haven’t done an official release...
A New Song – Piano Test
Wow! What a creative title Andrew…where did you ever think of “Piano Test”? Yeah whatever, that’s what this was, a test of a keyboard that I’m borrowing from a cousin. What is it? 35 seconds of a bass and organ playing together. It’s yet another “proof of concept” song...
Stop-Motion Photography
Quite possibly the best stop-motion video EVER MADE!!!! I made a sample stop-motion video using the demo version of Stop Motion Pro (http://www.stopmotionpro.com/). In this short film, I present the classic case of penny versus counter. The protagonist (the penny), must overcome the antagonist (the counter), to find its...
Three Cheese Alfredo Sauce
I made some Alfredo Sauce one night and liked it so much that I thought I’d make it again the next night. I also figured that I’d take some pictures and post the actual reciepe to make it. So here we go…...
Removed Flickr Badge
I used to have the Flickr Badge on the right hand sidebar, but it seemed to be slowing down the blog (I’d frequently see my browser “Waiting for www.flickr.com…”). It’s gone now, we’ll see if performance improves....
ADAL v.03
Removed VB syntax highlighting until we develop our own. Identifies tables with auto-increment fields and alters the insert to not attempt to insert into that field (would generate a SQL error). The DAL class also sets the ID property of the item passed in to the new auto-incremented value....
No More Spam & a New CMS
Spamalot I just downloaded and installed Akismet so hopefully I won’t have to deal with spam any more. We’ll see. CMS Search I also checked out some CMS packages yesterday and think the one that looks the best so far is CMS Made Simple It has a nice simple...