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Published on 01 Jan 2006
I have never been superstiitous. If I see a ladder I will sometimes walk under it to prove just how much I laugh in the face of those that believe in back luck. I laugh no more.Now if you're expecting a story about how someone dropped a paint pot on my head like a scene from a Laurel and Hardy movie
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Published on 24 Nov 2005
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I have however been laid low for the last couple of days with flu. So I have no real progress to report at the moment.Still I did yet a reply from the editor of the Visual Systems Journal magazine saying that he would enter a little piece about the
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Published on 16 Nov 2005
Just 7 days after releasing the first version of the Kryton library we have reached just over 700 downloads of the library. Averaging 100 per day from a standing start is more than I expected.I expect that run rate to start tailing down as the news group announcements fade from view. Plus all those
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Published on 13 Nov 2005
I've had several emails from bloggers asking why Crownwood have teamed up with us to give away $399 of software for a mere mention on a .NET development blog. What's in it for them?Actually this is a very simple piece of marketing what would usually be called product placement. So how does it work?T
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Published on 12 Nov 2005
.NET Bloggers can get a free copy of the DotNetMagic user interface library by putting up a blog entry about the recent release of the Krypton Toolkit. There are no catches and it will say your $399 from the usual retail price.You can read the details of the offer at...http://www.componentfactory.co
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Published on 10 Nov 2005
Good news, we have reached our first milestone. The first release of the Krypton Toolkit has now been made and 57 people have downloaded it in the first 24 hours.So far I have only broadcast it's availability by creating a message on two different developer forums, Channel9 and a Microsoft Developer
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Published on 27 Oct 2005
There are two objectives for the components that I am writing. The first is to ensure that they look really good so that developers can quickly create professional looking applications. The second is to provide exceptional functionality around the area of managing the application workspace.The Krypt
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Published on 23 Oct 2005
You know what great General's used to do with their armies in the old days. Land at the destination and then burn the ships. That way the troops know that the only way home is to win the battle on the way back.A great motivator but I doubt it would go down very well today. Well I have been working f
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Published on 19 Oct 2005
The easiest way to explain the addition of smart tag functionality to a control or component is to walk through a simple example. I have deliberately kept the example as simple as possible in order to make it quick and easy to see what is required from the additional code you need to write.Step 1 ?
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Published on 16 Oct 2005
Although my blog has been very quite for the last couple of weeks, I have still been hard at work. Just completed this weekend is the Krypton SplitContainer control. This is the Krypton version of the SplitContainer control that comes with the soon to be released Visual Studio 2005.The intention is
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Published on 16 Oct 2005
Developing as a lone wolf has some great advantages. Writing all the code yourself ensures that everything is written in a consistent manner and towards your own vision. No more compromises to fit in with a team leader or technical architect's idea of how things should work.My experience so far also
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Published on 21 Sep 2005
After a couple of change iterations we seem to be homing in on the best design that our RentACoder company can manage. It has been a real struggle getting them to make the changes I want and push them in the right direction.I am still not very happy with the ideas they have produced and maybe that i
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Published on 20 Sep 2005
At last I have managed to get the blogging part of the website up and working. This was actually much easier than I anticipated and largely because of using PHP.I purchased for just $50 a PHP news/blogging package that adds the full capability to my website. It only took about 30 lines of PHP added
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Published on 12 Sep 2005
Product LogosAs outlined previously, the Krypton Toolkit and Krypton Navigator product logos are a bit mediocre. We obviously want to ensure that all the visuals used on the website and in the products are excellent and not just mediocre.So as usual, we are going to pay a designer to come up with so
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Published on 12 Sep 2005
The Eagle Has LandedMy new Dell machine has arrived at last. After spending half the weekend getting everything installed I am now ready to rock and roll. If you have ever thought about getting a two screen system then I certainly recommend it. And not just because it makes your study look like the
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Published on 01 Sep 2005
The Good...Some good news at last. The web hosting has been transferred over much faster than I expected and now I have a Linuxmachine hosting my web space space. The domain names are correctly pointing to it and email is still working just fine. It was a painful process with several calls to Networ
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Published on 30 Aug 2005
Slow Slow, Quick Quick SlowThings have been moving very slowing recently.At the moment I am still in the middle of transferring my hosting package from a Windows machine to a Unix machine. As a result my domain names are not working and so the images on the blog are still not showing. The images are
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Published on 23 Aug 2005
Go faster stripsI've decided that my 3.5year old PC no long cuts it when it comes to professional software development. It's like trying to use a mule when you need a thorough breed race horse. So I've ordered a new machine that will in itself motivate me for weeks to come. Two 19' flat panel screen
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Published on 19 Aug 2005
Another Contender Enters the RingJust when I thought the concept work for the website was done and dusted another contender throws their hat in the ring. Normally I would not want the extra distraction in looking at another design but as the initial concept looks so good I have to follow it through.
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Published on 16 Aug 2005
The Eagle has landed!I've taken the template as provided by the winning web design and used it to generate the five main pages of the website. These have been uploaded to the server so now I actually have a website. Try it out...Live Website!Half an Eagle has landedActually you will have quickly not
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Published on 02 Jan 2006
After working for many different managers over the years I have noticed a strange correlation. The better the manager seems to think they are the worse they are in actuality. At least as far as those working for him are concerned.I have no idea why this should be. Could be just a random correlation
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Published on 03 Jan 2006
I handed in my notice at work 3 months ago and it seems to have taken forever for them to pass. But now we are in the final stretch with just 4 weeks to go until the shackles come off.To anybody else the end of January is just another month passing. To me it is a complete change in my life. From wag
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Published on 05 Jan 2006
Before I wrote a single a line of code I did a quick analysis of the market place I want to compete in to decide if I had a realistic chance of some success. The next few entries will relate my thinking.Market DefinitionFirst off we need to define the market that I will be competing in. A broad defi
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Published on 08 Jan 2006
Although we know have a feel for the structure of the .NET component market but need to add some numbers. This will flesh out the market share of the different players and help use decide where the money is to be made.Sources of InformationNot being an accountant it took a little while before I work
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Published on 12 Jan 2006
No formulation of market strategy would be complete without factoring in the coming tidal wave that is WPF or Windows Presentation Framework to use its full name. Although still a year away from release it will become the next generation platform for user interface development on .NET and Windows.Ma
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