Bootable VHD


This post is to make sure I don’t lose some information. John Papa has a great post on how to setup a machine to book directly into a VHD (http://johnpapa.net/bootoffmetal). I’ve been using this technique since I moved to Windows 7 (the first version to support the capability). It’s worked fine and I’d like to remember how to setup one in the future.

VJET for ExtJS


ExtJS 4 is a great framework for creating rich internet application. However there is a big problem: it’s a huge productivity drain. Modern development tools are complete with features to help make the code writing experience as productive as possible. In particular, code completion. This post is about a project to add ExtJS code completion to VJET a plugin for Eclipse which provides a means to add type information to Javascript.

Escaping regular expression characters in an input string


When using input gathered from a user to create a regular expression, the user input may contain regular expression control characters such as ‘.’ and ‘*’. These need to be escaped so the regular expression engine treats them as literal characters.

How to ExtJS 4 JsonP


The JsonP proxy (Ext.data.proxy.JsonP) is provided to handle cross domain queries and posts. Using it is straight forward but just swapping out an ajax or json proxy and using a jsonp proxy is not enough.

Previous Articles

Treeview node params when loading from a TreeStore


.NET Win 7-style folder select dialog


ExtJS 4.x animations


Links to information about ExtJS styling/theming


Sexybuttons for ExtJS


ExtJS 4 information


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Not so much a blog as an extended favorites list. With hundreds of links saved in my browser favorites I miss the ability to add notes to explain to myself the reason for saving the link. A blog seems like a great way to record the notes and to make them searchable too. If you see something to help you that's great. If you see something is clearly not right, please let me know.