First Blog Post
Howdy,
Since everyone seems to be doing it 1, I decided to start my own blog to write about my day to day experiences with web development and programming.
1. yes, I realize that I’m starting way too late on the blogging phenomenon timeline, but better late than never right 2 ?
2. what better way to start a blog than with a cliché?
Who am I?
My name is Andrei Alecu and I’m a C# developer with over 5 years of experience in .NET, owner and lead developer of Tachyon Labs, a company that started as an outsourcing studio but later developed as a .NET component developer and web development company. Tachyon Labs is also the company behind SharpSpell, a real-time spell checker control for ASP.NET and WinForms.
We 3 first launched SharpSpell back in 2004, and I was the sole developer of my company back then. The thing about SharpSpell was that it was the first real-time wavy underline spell checker for the Web.
This amazing 4 functionality was actually implemented by chance. I was approached by Dave Frank of the Best of the Web directory, looking to buy a spell check product for their administrative back-end. He eventually suggested that a real-time spell check function like in Microsoft Word would add huge value to the product, but in my own mind I thought something like that would never be possible using pure HTML and JavaScript in a web-browser. Flash maybe, but pure HTML never.
After a couple of months of work, I managed to get the first working version of a wavy underline spell checker using JavaScript and Internet Explorer’s DOM model. The code was really messy, but the tech demo made a great impact on the community and I received many words of praise from both interested parties and random people thinking how cool it was.
Since then the component was rewritten several times, and is now at a state where I could safely say, without false modesty, that it is the most technologically advanced spell check component on the market.
Over the following blog posts I’ll describe how I managed to overcome the obstacles I came across when first writing SharpSpell, and other development experiences and setbacks I came across.
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4. It was definitely “amazing” back then, when AJAX was just a term you heard about in technology news feeds, but there weren’t many concrete examples of what it was and did.
on November 14th, 2008 at 7:37 am
hi
I am using the this theme – for Wordpres at the moment, but soon Drupal (if it works) and maybe Plone (if Deliverance works)
could you make a theme for DotNetNuke ?
I have also use that, and I still think its a better all round CMS