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This is part seven of a series on Merlin . I recommend you read from the beginning . So, when we left off it was time to start parsing and creating object representations of our cleanly configured xml. But first, I couldn't handle my simple definition
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This is part six of a series on Merlin . I recommend you read from the beginning . So after all this thinking, planning, and testing, I was finally going to get my hands dirty! Recalling the pseudo-code that I'd written just a couple of nights earlier,
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This is part five of a series on Merlin . I recommend you read from the beginning . Since testing my integration strategy would require a bit more code than I was ready (or willing) to write, I was determined to bite off the smallest chunk possible and
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This is part four of a series on Merlin . I recommend you read from the beginning . Answering the "how" would come later. For now I decided that my focus should be on the "what". Again, pulling from the concepts of Outlook's Rules
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This is part three of a series on Merlin . I recommend you read from the beginning . So I knew I was going to build an Outlook style Rules Wizard, but how should it work? I figured there were two general approaches I could take. Write/compile code on
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This is part two of a series on Merlin . I recommend you read from the beginning . With only an idea, I still needed to figure out what form it would take. After all, what I was proposing was a no-code approach to radical customization. What kind of customizations
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This is part one of a series on Merlin . A couple of months ago, Scott announced a new internal contest . The goal was to build a Control Panel add-on for Community Server . For a couple of days I wrestled with a handful of ideas (an email/template/message
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If you recall, I blogged about our first contest , back in late January, which produced twenty free CSModules , all coded in a single weekend. While I didn't win any of the top three prizes, not even sure I got a single vote, I did submit five entries.
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