Recently I’ve been working on a product called “ASP.NET Controls for amCharts“. For those who don’t know - amCharts is the best interactive web charting software available and ASP.NET Controls for amCharts make it easier to generate and customize the charts from ASP.NET/Visual Studio.

Today we have finally released version 1.0 of the controls.

Download ASP.NET controls for amCharts.

I’ve written a post in my personal blog about a way to ease ASP.NET control development using Express editions of Visual Studio.

Check it out if you this is something you are interested in. And don’t forget to “kick it” if you like it

Hi there!

We’ve just launched our newest online service - Knotler.com. It’s an innovative approach to a hundred years old issue - personal shopping list management. We’ve employed AJAX to make creation of your shopping lists easy, fast and hassle-free. We’ve also made sure your lists are available through vast array of mobile devices and interfaces, including iGoogle, mobile phones, PDAs, even legacy WAP browsers. Why? Because writing on paper sucks!

Each list can be collectively edited by many persons simultaneously. Without any registrations, email, and all unnecessary BS. Yes yes - we’re aware that your wife can add those damn cosmetics for you to pick up on your way home while simultaneously removing your six-packs. We’re working on it

Give it a spin and let us know what you think. It’s free. And you know it’s cool because it has a BETA sign…

P.S. What the name Knotler means? No f***** idea.

Apple has released a public beta version of Safari 3 for Windows. This brings us one more step closer to SPAW Editor working in Safari.

I’ve used Windows Liver Writer Beta 1 to post to this blog and to my personal blog too. Now Beta 2 came out and it has new features, looks better, etc. One of the new features is “inline spell checking”. They even removed spellckecking toolbar button and menu item in favor of this automatic inline checking. There’s only one little problem though: it looks like this inline spell checking only works on Windows with English locale and since there’s no button for manual spellchecking all the world outside of US, UK and few other countries is f*cked (excuse my spelling)

Our friend at amCharts.com has just released his second chart control in his collection of the beautiful eye-candy flash charts: Line & Area Chart

You can use these charts in conjunction with any server-side technology. You just have to output the values in XML or CSV formats. And best of all you can use fully functional version of the beauty absolutely free of charge (if you don’t mind a small link back to amCharts.com).

In addition to Line & Area Chart there’s also a Pie & Donut Chart which is as beautiful and as versatile as this one.

You can also help spread the word about amCharts by posting a link on your site, blog or forum and by digging this post on Digg.com

While developing SPAW v.2 I’ve managed to write some JavaScript code that crashes Firefox (both 1.5 and 2.0) with 100% probability. I would like to submit the bug to bugzilla but I can’t reproduce it in a simple test script and submitting the whole SPAW v.2 code would be a little to much.

Well, designers do. But for developers investing in something like Photoshop is overkill. To say more any investment in image editors is not easily justifiable if all you do with it is a couple of icons or small simple images once in a while.

This is where Paint.net shines. Sure it can’t compete with Photoshop on a high level (yet) but it does all developer needs plus a little more. Testimonial on the site says that someone actually uninstalled Photoshop for Paint.net. We have a dedicated “Photoshop computer” which was used by whoever needed to do a little graphics work. Well, in a month I have Paint.net on my machine I’ve done some images for SPAW2, a couple of buttons, a background image and I’ve never used our “photoshoputer” for this.

P.S.: I’m afraid that Paint.net will dissapoint me in a huge way now, when I praised it

For those who don’t believe here are some screenshots of the same test page rendered in IE7, Opera 9 and Firefox 1.5

IE7 

Opera 9

 
Firefox 1.5

I have an idea why this is happening but so far no idea what is wrong with how it’s done. And both Opera and IE seem to work as I expected but Firefox thinks different. Oh well…

Just trying to post from Windows Live Writer and see if it works ok with WordPress. If you can read this then it works just fine. And if you can see a picture below then it can insert it and is totally recommended