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Check out our new reminder service www.thebirthdaybrain.com. It's simple to use and best of all it's free, sign yourself up and invite your friends and never get in trouble for forgetting someones birthday again.

I've been creating a couple of improved ASP.NET controls such as a label which actually renders as a label with a for attribute which will point at the right control after ASP.NET has mangled the ids.

Turns out to be fairly difficult to find information about just using the literal content of a User Control, but simple to implement. Just add the ParseChildren attribute to your User Control's class and set it to true and supply the name of the field it should put any literal content into.

e.g. [ParseChildren(true,"Text")]

Which will populate the Text attribute with the inner html of the user control.

The new grobag.com site went live today.

The biggest revelation when developing this site was when a friend recommended trying JQuery. This makes javascript so much easier and stops you having to worry about getting your scripts to run cross browser. The baby sleeping bags page makes use of the library and the built in AJAX facilities provided. Other than that, it's a fairly standard content managed site using reddot and it's new navigation manager functionality.

Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think.

My first post, 10 weeks after getting back from New Zealand and Australia. Why the wait? I guess a combination of being really busy catching up on some work and not being in the mood to post when I have had a free 5 minutes.

I thought I should probably pull my finger out and get back into the swing of things. Quite a bit has been going on the last few months. There are a few new sites going live over the next two weeks, first up is University Business. This is a drupal based site I've been working on with Wildfire, they'll be some new features going up on there over the coming days as well.

The birthday brain goes up very soon, the name might give you a few hints as to what it does. Drop me a mail if you'd like a beta invite :)

I'm a couple of weeks away from a six week holiday around New Zealand and Australia. I've set up a new trip blog where those of you who know myself or Becs can see what we're up to.

I've used setting up the blog as an excuse to tidy up my blog software and try and make it a bit more user friendly, add better support for posting images and beta support for Pingbacks. The list of updates I'd like to do to it is increasing all the time, but I rarely have time to play with it. Next on the list is tidying up the coding then releasing the code open source. I very much doubt that will happen before February/March.