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Form Wizard Pro And JQuery Word Count

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, March 23, 2012 4:46:00 PM Categories: CSS jQuery MojoPortal

Here’s a quick n’ dirty example of how to do a friendly word counter within mojoPortal using a plugin I’ve used in the past: http://themeforest.s3.amazonaws.com/67_wordCounter/index.htm. The jQuery as it is on that page needed minor alterations... read more

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Form Wizard Pro And JQuery Word Count

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, March 23, 2012 4:46:00 PM Categories: CSS jQuery MojoPortal

Here’s a quick n’ dirty example of how to do a friendly word counter within mojoPortal using a plugin I’ve used in the past: http://themeforest.s3.amazonaws.com/67_wordCounter/index.htm. The jQuery as it is on that page needed minor alterations... read more

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Extending Formwizard Pro CSS

Posted by Steve Railsback Monday, March 19, 2012 3:22:00 PM Categories: CSS MojoPortal

Clients often ask me if there's a way to add style to their web forms. Rather than handle their formatting requests on a case by case basis I created some quick and simple CSS class rules that all my clients may choose to use when building their... read more

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How to Save Form State

Posted by Steve Railsback Friday, March 09, 2012 10:31:00 AM

Remember the story of Sisyphus the Greek King. I will spare you the mythology lesson, but let's just say he wasn't a pleasant guy. For his crimes the Greek gods punished him to role a huge boulder up a steep hill, only to have it role back to the ... read more

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2012 Conference Opportunities

Posted by Shaun Geisert Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:54:00 AM Categories: ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET WebForms General

(function ($) { $.fn.styleTable = function (options) { var defaults = { css: 'dataTable' }; options = $.extend(defaults, options); return this.each(function () { input = $(this); ... read more

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2012 Conference Opportunities

Posted by Shaun Geisert Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:54:00 AM Categories: ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET WebForms General

(function ($) { $.fn.styleTable = function (options) { var defaults = { css: 'dataTable' }; options = $.extend(defaults, options); return this.each(function () { input = $(this); ... read more

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Send Snazzy Email Confirmations using Form Wizard Pro

Posted by Steve Railsback Sunday, January 29, 2012 5:00:00 PM Categories: MojoPortal

Since the mojoPortal Team released support for Form Submission Handlers I've been in programming heaven. Form submission handlers have changed the way my clients do business on their sites. I've written handlers to send confirmation emails, receive applications and push data to other databases, and even schedule events in mojoPortals Event Calendar Pro. I really see the possibilities of form submission handlers as endless and one of the best attributes of mojoPortal. This article will demonstrate how I use form submission handlers along with mojoPortal's Newsletter tool to send HTML formatted email confirmations.

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Know When Your Site Goes Down Before Your Clients Do

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, January 20, 2012 5:47:00 PM Categories: Development Philosophy General

I'm not too happy when a site I am responsible for goes down. I especially don't like it when a client alerts me to this fact, when I should have known/fixed the issue myself well before their knowledge of the issue. So, here's how to... read more

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Know When Your Site Goes Down Before Your Clients Do

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, January 20, 2012 5:47:00 PM Categories: Development Philosophy General

I'm not too happy when a site I am responsible for goes down. I especially don't like it when a client alerts me to this fact, when I should have known/fixed the issue myself well before their knowledge of the issue. So, here's how to... read more

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MS SQL Calculate Number of Orders per Day

Posted by Steve Railsback Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:19:00 AM

The Bookstore approached me wanting to know how many textbook orders they received each day for Spring semester. With some quick experimentation I came up with the following query:SELECT DATEADD(day,... read more

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Form Wizard Pro View-Only Module

Posted by Shaun Geisert Tuesday, January 03, 2012 3:29:00 PM Categories: MojoPortal

Here's a simple module designed to display all the submissions in a given instance of Form Wizard Pro, similar to the "View Submissions Grid" within the admin area of the module itself. I had to create this because I needed a way to display... read more

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Form Wizard Pro View-Only Module

Posted by Shaun Geisert Tuesday, January 03, 2012 3:29:00 PM Categories: MojoPortal

Here's a simple module designed to display all the submissions in a given instance of Form Wizard Pro, similar to the "View Submissions Grid" within the admin area of the module itself. I had to create this because I needed a way to display... read more

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Extending MojoPortal's Form Wizard Pro to Support Authorize.NET SIM

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, November 25, 2011 10:59:00 AM Categories: ASP.NET WebForms MojoPortal

Note: I have recently updated this entire project so as to not need a controller application at all (ie, the logic is all self-contained in the FWP submission handler). Please contact me if you are interested.--> Recently I... read more

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Extending MojoPortal's Form Wizard Pro to Support Authorize.NET SIM

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, November 25, 2011 10:59:00 AM Categories: ASP.NET WebForms MojoPortal

Note: I have recently updated this entire project so as to not need a controller application at all (ie, the logic is all self-contained in the FWP submission handler). Please contact me if you are interested.--> Recently I... read more

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Automatically Upgrading MojoPortal Using PowerShell

Posted by Shaun Geisert Monday, October 31, 2011 10:18:00 AM Categories: MojoPortal

After originally creating a Java-based auto-upgrader to handle upgrading my installations of mojoPortal, I had heard about something called PowerShell. PowerShell is sort of like command prompt on steroids, and it is already integrated into... read more

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Automatically Upgrading MojoPortal Using PowerShell

Posted by Shaun Geisert Monday, October 31, 2011 10:18:00 AM Categories: MojoPortal

After originally creating a Java-based auto-upgrader to handle upgrading my installations of mojoPortal, I had heard about something called PowerShell. PowerShell is sort of like command prompt on steroids, and it is already integrated into... read more

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Google Weather .NET User Control

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:22:00 PM

A few days ago I received an e-mail from weather.com informing me that they were going to begin charging me $20/month to continue using their XML feed (currently I use it for a weather widget at parents.colostate.edu). However, why would I pay ... read more

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Google Weather .NET User Control

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:22:00 PM

A few days ago I received an e-mail from weather.com informing me that they were going to begin charging me $20/month to continue using their XML feed (currently I use it for a weather widget at parents.colostate.edu). However, why would I pay ... read more

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Creating a Mega Menu with mojoPortal

Posted by Steve Railsback Monday, August 08, 2011 4:05:00 PM Categories: CSS MojoPortal Skins

Mega Menus are fast becoming the new design trend. They are a new spin on the traditional drop-down menu. These big two-dimensional menus group information by category and eliminate the need to drill though the traditional drop-down menu levels to find a particular page. Use of mega menus reduces site complexity and improves usability.

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Automating Extensionless Urls in MojoPortal

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:19:00 AM Categories: .NET Tools MojoPortal

Yesterday i put together some code to convert all of my sites to use friendly-urls for all pages (including those pages generated by Event Calendar Pro). The code iterates through every entry in mp_FriendlyUrls, updating the urls there and... read more

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Automating Extensionless Urls in MojoPortal

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:19:00 AM Categories: .NET Tools MojoPortal

Yesterday i put together some code to convert all of my sites to use friendly-urls for all pages (including those pages generated by Event Calendar Pro). The code iterates through every entry in mp_FriendlyUrls, updating the urls there and... read more

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My Favorite Rounded Corner Solutions

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, July 29, 2011 10:20:00 AM Categories: CSS jQuery

I like being able to round corners without using images. To me, it just keeps things simpler and the markup cleaner. Here are my 3 favorite ways to accomplish rounded corners without images, even in earlier versions of IE (eg, 6 in some... read more

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My Favorite Rounded Corner Solutions

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, July 29, 2011 10:20:00 AM Categories: CSS jQuery

I like being able to round corners without using images. To me, it just keeps things simpler and the markup cleaner. Here are my 3 favorite ways to accomplish rounded corners without images, even in earlier versions of IE (eg, 6 in some... read more

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Admissions MojoPortal Presentation

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, July 27, 2011 9:08:00 AM Categories: MojoPortal

Here's the PowerPoint from my 7/26/2011 presentation of what mojo can do. Alternatively, I pulled out the important links/info from the presentation and pasted below: CMS Review: http://www.cmsmatrix.org Developers on campus... read more

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Admissions MojoPortal Presentation

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, July 27, 2011 9:08:00 AM Categories: MojoPortal

Here's the PowerPoint from my 7/26/2011 presentation of what mojo can do. Alternatively, I pulled out the important links/info from the presentation and pasted below: CMS Review: http://www.cmsmatrix.org Developers on campus... read more

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Prettifying MojoPortal's Form Wizard Pro w/ Jquery

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, July 20, 2011 4:12:00 PM Categories: CSS jQuery MojoPortal

Thought I'd share a quick example of one way in which you can "pretty-ify" form wizard pro: http://hsdc.colostate.edu/old-registration This is a bit of a hack in that I created an instance of FWP which I then hid/overlaid with my own user inputs.... read more

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Prettifying MojoPortal's Form Wizard Pro w/ Jquery

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, July 20, 2011 4:12:00 PM Categories: CSS jQuery MojoPortal

Thought I'd share a quick example of one way in which you can "pretty-ify" form wizard pro: http://hsdc.colostate.edu/old-registration This is a bit of a hack in that I created an instance of FWP which I then hid/overlaid with my own user inputs.... read more

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CSU Mobile for MojoPortal

Posted by Shaun Geisert Monday, July 18, 2011 9:28:00 AM Categories: MojoPortal Skins

If you have mobile kit pro installed, you may want to avail yourself of the following CSU-branded skin. A few notes: Because my work is a derivative of the skin that ships with Mobile Kit Pro, you must either own a license to MKP or be... read more

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CSU Mobile for MojoPortal

Posted by Shaun Geisert Monday, July 18, 2011 9:28:00 AM Categories: MojoPortal Skins

If you have mobile kit pro installed, you may want to avail yourself of the following CSU-branded skin. A few notes: Because my work is a derivative of the skin that ships with Mobile Kit Pro, you must either own a license to MKP or be... read more

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My Own Web Page Centric Approach To Feature Driven Development and Scrum

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:56:00 AM Categories: Development Philosophy General

Every now and then I hear about some development methodology that tends to alter the way i think about designing web applications. Two in particular are scrum and feature driven development. Lately I've been experimenting with my own... read more

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My Own Web Page Centric Approach To Feature Driven Development and Scrum

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:56:00 AM Categories: Development Philosophy General

Every now and then I hear about some development methodology that tends to alter the way i think about designing web applications. Two in particular are scrum and feature driven development. Lately I've been experimenting with my own... read more

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Regular Expression Code Snippets

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:51:00 PM

I know I'm duplicating another page on this site, but it's easier to get here from the home page and I'm lazy. More regex's are at http://www.regxlib.com Zip Code Matches 80523 and 80523-1000 ^\d{5}([\-]\d{4})?$ Campus Delivery... read more

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Regular Expression Code Snippets

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:51:00 PM

I know I'm duplicating another page on this site, but it's easier to get here from the home page and I'm lazy. More regex's are at http://www.regxlib.com Zip Code Matches 80523 and 80523-1000 ^\d{5}([\-]\d{4})?$ Campus Delivery... read more

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Entlib In Nettiers

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, June 17, 2011 2:29:00 PM Categories: netTiers

Note: So that all errors aren't trapped generically (ie, so you don't see the entlib.config file cannot be found for any error your application may experience), it's very useful to set up your entlib.config's exception policy appropriately.... read more

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Entlib In Nettiers

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, June 17, 2011 2:29:00 PM Categories: netTiers

Note: So that all errors aren't trapped generically (ie, so you don't see the entlib.config file cannot be found for any error your application may experience), it's very useful to set up your entlib.config's exception policy appropriately.... read more

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Determining a User's Machine Settings

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, June 08, 2011 3:06:00 PM Categories: Development Philosophy General

I frequently find that even after testing web site designs against various OS / browser combinations I still have users who now and then complain of some glitch or another. Since many people don't know how to determine their browser/version, I ... read more

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Determining a User's Machine Settings

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, June 08, 2011 3:06:00 PM Categories: Development Philosophy General

I frequently find that even after testing web site designs against various OS / browser combinations I still have users who now and then complain of some glitch or another. Since many people don't know how to determine their browser/version, I ... read more

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Implementing a Custom Form Submission Email Handler

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:16:00 AM Categories: MojoPortal

Very much along the lines as what Joe Audette describes at http://www.mojoportal.com/implementing-a-custom-form-submission-handler.aspx, I created a quick little form submission handler that sends the form submission's results to the person... read more

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Implementing a Custom Form Submission Email Handler

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:16:00 AM Categories: MojoPortal

Very much along the lines as what Joe Audette describes at http://www.mojoportal.com/implementing-a-custom-form-submission-handler.aspx, I created a quick little form submission handler that sends the form submission's results to the person... read more

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Documenting a Conversion of RentalSearch to netTiers

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:47:00 AM Categories: ASP.NET WebForms netTiers

I thought that I would document (once again for my own self-reference) the steps that I took in "converting" an existing project over to .netTiers. In this example, I'm going to take rentalsearch.colostate.edu (a rental listing application)... read more

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Documenting a Conversion of RentalSearch to netTiers

Posted by Shaun Geisert Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:47:00 AM Categories: ASP.NET WebForms netTiers

I thought that I would document (once again for my own self-reference) the steps that I took in "converting" an existing project over to .netTiers. In this example, I'm going to take rentalsearch.colostate.edu (a rental listing application)... read more

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NetTiers Export To Excel Tips

Posted by Shaun Geisert Monday, April 11, 2011 4:43:00 PM Categories: ASP.NET WebForms netTiers

A few tips for self-reference when using the Export To Excel feature within NetTiers. How to use Export To Excel Within An UpdatePanel Fix for RegisterForEventValidation errors How To Define Additional Columns When Using Export ... read more

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NetTiers Export To Excel Tips

Posted by Shaun Geisert Monday, April 11, 2011 4:43:00 PM Categories: ASP.NET WebForms netTiers

A few tips for self-reference when using the Export To Excel feature within NetTiers. How to use Export To Excel Within An UpdatePanel Fix for RegisterForEventValidation errors How To Define Additional Columns When Using Export ... read more

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BoundField CheatSheet

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, March 18, 2011 10:34:00 AM Categories: ASP.NET WebForms General

I'll keep adding more to this for purposes of copying/pasting. Btw, these examples are C# based: MailTo Url Link Calling An Extension Method Image Display Based On Boolean Value Yes/No From Boolean Currency ... read more

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BoundField CheatSheet

Posted by Shaun Geisert Friday, March 18, 2011 10:34:00 AM Categories: ASP.NET WebForms General

I'll keep adding more to this for purposes of copying/pasting. Btw, these examples are C# based: MailTo Url Link Calling An Extension Method Image Display Based On Boolean Value Yes/No From Boolean Currency ... read more

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