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Website Under Maintenance
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:43 PM

If you’ve visited my site tonight, you may have noticed that it’s currently down for maintenance. What does this mean? Well, nothing bad of course, just migrating from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 which will hopefully allow me to utilize some fancier features with the new website coming in a few weeks (hint hint). This migration hasn’t been easy as... Read More...

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Filed under: Custom Controls, General, Personal, Website News

Firefox Woes
Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:58 PM

So I've been running IE7 Beta 2 Preview since it was released, and I've not had the troubles that I've had within the last hour of installing FireFox 1.5.0.1, okay so I can't really compare them - I just gotta put the plug in. I'm currently re-writing the CalendarPopup control and got it fully functional in IE7. So, I decided to switch over to FireFox to see... Read More...

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Interesting Download Statistics
Friday, October 22, 2004 4:47 PM

I'm doing some digging in my control download stats just to kinda see how things are going. Some of these results may be suprising, others just borderline insane. Total downloads: ~37000 Total unique downloads by email: ~21800 Total Calendar Popup downloads: ~17500 Highest Download Day: 9/26/2003 with 271 downloads Lowest Download Day: 4/4/2003 and 4/5/2003 with... Read More...

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Best Constructive Critiscm Ever
Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:43 AM

So, I'm not one to compete with WTF, but I just got the following email and it just completely irked me on how blatently obvious stupid people are: “I am not able to get the Calendar and TimePicker to look reasonable. The calendar is long, narrow and ugly. I can't get the shape to change. The Timepicker does not focus on the times listed. The display area... Read More...

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Thanks & Hello!
Friday, January 09, 2004 3:09 PM

Hello to everyone! My name is Matt Hawley and I'm the sole developer at Excentrics World producing those wonderful controls we all love. I wanted to take a second and thank Scott for giving me some blogspace over here and give you a brief history of me. I've been working with .NET since late Beta 2, and have loved every minute of it. Just recently I passed my... Read More...

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