A Precarious Balance

January 2007 - Posts

• New Style Trace feature in IE Developer Toolbar Beta 3

  I've been using the IE Developer Toolbar to debug styling problems in custom Community Server skins. It's been very useful except that in some cases, I couldn't easily figure out why a property had a particular value. For example, exactly Read More... Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 7:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: IE CSS

• Five Things You Didn't Know About Me

  ...and probably didn't want to know. But I was tagged by Julian , so here goes: My software engineering career started in high school. A friend of mine was going away to college and he helped me get his job at the local newspaper. We lived in Evansville, Read More... Posted Saturday, January 06, 2007 1:00 PM by Sean Winstead | 2 Comments Filed under: Life

• First production use of payment gateway

  I've been putting the payment gateway portion of the Paid Subscriber add on through various tests. Running it over and over in a test environment is helpful, but there's nothing like the real thing. Yesterday I finished putting together a proposal Read More... Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:15 PM by Sean Winstead | 4 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• How to guarantee success in your New Year resolutions

  Did you make some resolutions for the New Year? Is there a whiny, little voice in your head that mutters "What happened to last year's resolutions; you didn't even do one"? Many years ago, I would go through the same old thing each December Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 8:45 AM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: Life, new years, resolutions