04Jul2010
Michael Baird
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Michael Baird
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BlogEngine.net
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BlogEngine.net

BlogEngine.net Featured Posts Rotator Extension using JQuery

I had this need to showcase featured posts on the front page of my blog with a large image. I did not see any extensions for BlogEngine.net that did this so, I decided to write my own. This extension uses JQuery and a JQuery plugin called InnerFade.

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13Apr2009
Michael Baird
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Michael Baird
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Development
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ASP.net MVC and JQuery Cascading Dropdown list

Imagine that you have an E-Commerce site and you would like the user to drill down into the attributes of a product to help the user find exactly what they need. You display a dropdown list of product colors. Each time a user selects a new color, a dropdown list displaying products available in that color is populated. In this demo, I've created a small application demonstrating on how to use ASP.net MVC 1.0 framework and JQuery to complete the task.

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22Oct2008
Michael Baird
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Michael Baird
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Software
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My Toolbox

I develop for both front end and backend ASP.net web applications and I find myself using a slew of applications on a daily basis. Also, I have hobbies of game map creation using Source SDK Tools, Video Editing, and 3D modeling. Everytime I format my PC at home, I write out a laundry list of applications that I need to install.

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16Sep2008
Michael Baird
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Michael Baird
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BlogEngine.net
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BlogEngine.net

BlogEngine.net Custom Widget Properties

For the theme on my site, I wanted to add individual styles to certain widgets to differentiate them from one and another and break up the monotonous look. In order to do that, I added a property to the Widget called CSSClass that appends a name to the existing class: widget so you can add different styles in your css to change the look of certain widgets.

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05Sep2008
Michael Baird
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Michael Baird
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BlogEngine.net
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BlogEngine.net

MichaelJBaird.com and BlogEngine.net

Well I finally got my website up and running. After a couple of years using Joomla and a Apache/MySQL environment, I switched to ASP.NET, VistaDB Express, C# using the .NET open source application BlogEngine.net.

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