Glavs Blog

On a completely non technical note, but something I am pretty happy with is managing to finaly pass my 4th degree black belt grading in Budo Jitsu just yesterday. Its a fairly long grading thats goes for around 4-5 months. At 3rd dan and above, its very technical, with me (and my training partner) having to hold 3 seminars, organise the material, know it inside out and be able to demonstrate it, market the seminars and a whole bunch of stuff for the 4 months. Then on the last month, we have some time to prepare a short demonstration of all the techniques, with some imprompt demonstration of favourite techniques thrown in.

The Wally podcast factory is back to its usual podcast producing frenzy. Here is a good one on IIS7.

So I finally got Vista Beta2 loaded onto a separate partition on my laptop and am dual booting it and my original Windows XP. While I dont get all the 3D magic as my laptop graphics card isn't quite capable, it still looks a very sexy beast. The UI is very slick, and it feels quite different.

I have made some updates to my Atlas PasswordStrength Extender control that I mentioned previously, and that wax also mentioned by Scott Guthrie in a previous post. You can have a look at the control on a test page here (http://www.theglavs.com/ControlTestPage.aspx).

Darren Neimke, a good friend and fellow readify dude has written an awesome book on Web Parts (http://www.manning.com/neimke/).

Subscribe – Be like Wally (ok, maybe thats not the best idea)

I have been writing an Atlas Extender control using the Atlas control toolkit in my spare time lately, and I thought I'd share its progress with everyone so far. It's certainly not complete and is a bit raw, but it does display the strength of the password you are entering into a textbox interactively.

Suppose your working on a new extender control using the Atlas Control toolkit that has been released (and recently updated with some more controls).