Last night I was having some major PC issues... corrupted USB 2.0 drivers, failing peripherals, and then to top it all off - Gaim started crashing immediately after it started the login process.. I was about to resort to a clean install of Windows and the two days of my life that I would lose while reinstalling and configuring all my apps. USB Issues... I was able to solve my USB issues by tossing my existing (and generic) USB 2.0 PCI Controller card and putting in a new Adaptec AUA-5100B card. After installing the Adaptec provided drivers, all was right with the...

I just saw that on Aug 8th, 2006 the subTEXT Project broke into the Top 25 projects hosted on SourceForge.net. Now I'm not exactly sure what that means - nor how the rankings are calculated - but I still think it's pretty awesome and stands as a testament to the great work that the subTEXT Team and Community are doing. Congrats All, and here's to breaking into the Top 10! UPDATE: Haacked just sent me a link to SourceForge's Ranking algorithm. Thanks Phil!

First, an introduction. "ATLAS" is a free (as in beer) framework from Microsoft aimed at building rich, responsive UIs by utilizing AJAX techniques on the web. This framework is different from other AJAX libraries/frameworks as it is built for, and fully integrates with the ASP.NET 2.0 server-based development framework. This tight integration makes adding AJAX-ish functionality to your existing ASP.NET applications quick and (relatively) painless. My First Take I recently decided to look into using ATLAS as the AJAX Framework of choice for the Subtext project. After running through the step-by-step installation instructions, and reading a few quick...