PhD Comics can be oh so accurate - http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=622

Joel Pobar is on the latest episode of DotNetRocks. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those that give it to him when comes back to AU with his yank accent.

Meanwhile I'm getting annoyed at trying to prevent multiple submission clicks for the web app I'm working on. I had it all working except for a problem with IE cancelling submissions under certain circumstances. Then I thought I had that fixed but it's now broken in Opera. :(

BTW, I'm back into my PhD starting next Monday and I really do plan on at least having some alpha release of RikWik available by then. Just gotta find time.

The previously mentioned upgrade caused some problems with my RSS. It was being generated off my first 20 posts instead of my latest 20. It should be fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience.

Well it has finally happened. RikWare.com is now running RikWik: Goomburra. You probably won't notice too many changes at the moment but hopefully soon I'll have a release that everybody can play with.

Some of the new features in Goomburra include:

• Skinning - loosely based on DotNetNuke
  
• Much better extensibility (more details later)
  
• Page types with custom viewers/editors
  
• Page attributes
  
• Extensible security system
  
• Plus various bug fixes...
  

I decided to check how my Goomburra skin rendered in some other browsers and the result was... pathetic. So I've delayed my deployment to try to fix this up. Really my only problem is with the menu. Currently I'm using the solpart menu - basically because that's what DotNetNuke uses, but after looking further into it I've discovered that it seems to be a constant source of problems for DNN skinners.

If anybody has a suggestion for an another free ASP.NET menu system then let me know with a comment (if it works for you... the current commenting UI doesn't always work - something that will be fixed with Goomburra!)

I'm almost ready to deploy an initial version of RikWik:Goomburra but I'm being thwarted by a limit on the size of file I can upload to my host to restore a database from... I'll try some other methods.

This means that hopefully within the next couple of days I'll have a version available for release. Note that this will only be an alpha version, but my initial testing is fairly positive and I really want to get something out there for people to play with - though there's probably nobody who actually wants to play with it.

I'll also try to post some of the features over the next few days.

A mate of mine has been wrestling with a windows forms app recently and came across the Windows Forms Parking Window. I'm just surprised I've never come across this anywhere else.

While looking into it I found this post http://dotnet.org.za/johannds/archive/2004/03/08/650.aspx Read the comments. It's kind of amusing to see how abusive people can be just because they can't understand a blog post but think it might be able to help them (it can't... but they haven't realised that).