Blog posts about software development

The following posts are about my personal experiences with various software development tasks. The blogging phenomenon has been very kind to developers: if you encounter an obstacle, odds are someone else has encountered that obstacle, solved it, and then blogged about it.

I generally only post an entry here if I find no other blogs discussing the issue.

And yes, I know that I am appallingly late to join the blogging craze (January, 2006).

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Update on Atlas/Prototype compatibility

Earlier this year I posted about how Atlas and Prototype were incompatible, linking to a forum thread in which Bertrand LeRoy claimed that it wasn't possible...

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Posted on Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 12:49PM by Registered CommenterPortman Wills in | CommentsPost a Comment | References1 Reference

Stretched images in IE6 with Dell Widescreen LCD

I just took a new Inspiron 9400 out of the box which has a beautiful widescreen 17-inch display with a native resolution of 1920x1200. Unfortunately, nothing on the web looks beautiful, because Dell shipped the machine with screwy display settings. All images in Internet Explorer 6+ look distorted...

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Posted on Monday, March 6, 2006 at 01:45PM by Registered CommenterPortman Wills in | Comments3 Comments | References2 References

EntLib 2.0 assemblies can't be hosted with SQL Server 2005

Today I found myself writing a CLR sproc and wishing that I could use the Data Access Application Block from Enterprise Library 2.0. Turns out I can't...

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Posted on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 08:34PM by Registered CommenterPortman Wills in | CommentsPost a Comment

Atlas incompatible with Prototype

This evening I learned that ASP.NET Atlas is incompatible with the widely-used Prototype library, for both good and bad reasons...

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Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 06:20PM by Registered CommenterPortman Wills in | Comments2 Comments | References1 Reference