Coders for Christ

Is the expression "you are what you read" true?  I think it is to some degree.  Not only does it give you knowledge but it also says something about you.  My most innovative friends are heavy blog, book and magazine readers, and I believe there is a correlation.  I frequently ask people what blogs ...

One of the things I think we'll need to address within our Arena ChMS Community is the ability to have (manage) multiple developer custom projects.  While its possible to do this without a tool, its terribly inefficient and not recommended. SharpForge is an open source .NET 2.0 (C#) software project hosting web application that ...

Phil and Derek just returned from a two day security conference last week.  In that spirit I post this entry... It's ironic when a site attempts to enforce some security policy but then commits a password-no-no.  I was on our Web.com (formerly Interland) control panel and cringed when they displayed, right before the eyes of ...

This past Friday we upgraded to Arena 1.1.  The new Import/Export capabilities allowed me to easily install a custom module we developed called "Tag Finder".  It was written in less than a day, and simply put, it gives you the ability to search for tags.  Since tags are hierarchal (compared to ShelbyV5's ...

This user control (.ascx) will display the latest image found in a folder of your choosing. We use it to display the latest image from our web cam. There are two properties you can set when using the control, ImgFolder and ImgFileExt. Use the control by adding this to any existing .aspx page: <%@ Register ...

Here is a little menu control I found yesterday that's pretty handy. I wanted a quick "function menu" that would behave like the ones you see on http://my.msn.com. I also wanted it to have a clean event handling model (not the URL-based type that are so common in menu controls). I found this Cutting Edge article and code by Dino ...