As you might know, I am running the French .NET portal Tech Head Brothers and I am always searching for good way to optimize it and make it run better.

Following the post of Jeremy Zawodny’s blog: “How To Add Good Expires Headers to Images in Apache 1.3“ I decided to check this on my server running Tech Head Brothers on IIS 6.0.

I remember when I tried to implement a Login control in a ModalPopup with one of the early release of what was called at that time Atlas and is now called ASP.NET AJAX. I had lots of difficulties and now it works like a charm.

This time I would like to have a Login control in an ASP.NET AJAX PopupControlExtender from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.

It is with a **tremendous pleasure **that we launched with my brother Mathieu the new version of Tech Head Brothers portal. It has been a long journey, but finally it is online and currently received a positive response.

Who are we?

If you have a blog you might know about the MetaWeblog API. I implemented it for Tech Head Brothers portal to be able to post news from a client. Today I am using Live Writer to post on my blog and I also wanted to have the possibility to post news on the new version of Tech Head Brothers portal but with pictures and without the usage of a ftp server.

Checking the API I found a new method that I had not implemented: newMediaObject.

I just made my first checkins on CodePlex for the project Tech Head Brothers Authoring.

CodePlex is REALLY COOL, having an access to a Team Server from Visual Studio 2005 is just great. I like it very much.

That’s it!!! I decided to open the code of the second release of my authoring/publishing tool used on Tech Head Brothers portal.

You might read more about the new version here:

This time the targeted scenario was to implement a login the way I saw it on on10.net.

Using the Atlas Control Toolkit, I started to implement the scenario with a ModalPopup atlas control surrounding an ASP.NET Login.

After a smooth integration of Atlas in the new version of Tech Head Brothers website, I
decided to go a step further with a project a bit more complex then the scenario
developed here.

The application is written as a n-tier web application and
modeled with domain objects.

It uses those differents technologies:

This morning I was able to integrate Atlas in the new release under development of Tech Head Brothers. In less than a hour I had an UpdatePanel in the page that describes the differents authors of the site. Now when you click on the picture of an author the biography is shown without the full post back. And it is really really easy. I am also adding a tab to show all publication of the auhtor.

Congratulations to the Atlas Team!!! Great work.