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jMonthCalendar has reached a new milestone! It now supports multi-day events (events that span multiple days). Plus it retains all the same features as before including drag and drop and event stacking. This release is a huge change from the previous version and is thus labeled as Beta. Most significant to the change is how events are rendered onto the calendar. In this post I am going to go over the new features and how they will affect existing users. I will also try to cover some of the new functionality and how it might be used. read more »

I just learned about a new feature today of log4net that would have saved me a few hours of time had I known or been able to find this earlier.  I learned that you can have dynamic properties stored into log4net’s global context from code and then access them from the XML configuration file. This is useful in the case where dynamic configuration of log4net is needed. read more »

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Well it has been awhile since I posted anything new so I thought that I would provide a rundown of the minor new features and fixes in jMonthCalendar 1.2.2 read more »

It has been awhile since I have had anything to announce with jMonthCalendar. I have been quite busy lately and have been procrastinating at bug fixes and enhancements. Lately, I’ve been working on an idea to set up project wiki, issue, and source management system using Redmine and Subversion. My current host does not play well with Subversion and was lacking on memory and access needed to run Redmine the way I wanted. So I have moved the project and source over to Google Code. read more »

Wow, let me first start by saying it has been too long since I posted any updates on jMonthCalendar. I hope that the new release of jMonthCalendar 1.2.0 excites you as much as it does me. 1.2.0 sets the stage for some pretty cool stuff. Continue reading to see a short list of the new features and where this project is going next.
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I just finished posting a updated release for jMonthCalendar that can be found here. This release mostly consists of a few bug fixes and a new features that have been suggested by fellow supporters (people who post comments, issues and suggestions, and anyone else I’ve missed). To those and everyone else I say: Thank you.
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If you didn’t know already, ASP.Net MVC framework is int he release candidate stages. Wahoo!!!. As per usual ScottGu over at Microsoft posted insanely detailed remarks on the new features. Check it out here.. Some notable improvements that I have used and like thus far include NO MORE CODE BEHIND FILES (this is my favorite), shortcut’s to switch between views and controllers, and “scaffold” like generation of views and controllers using the T4 template engine in Visual Studio.

I just released my jMonthCalendar (the full month event calendar) with some new enhancements/fixes upon request. The change log can be found here along with updated samples and direct download. Fixes include: month name display in IE, isArray function not present in older version of jQuery, and new configurable first-day-of-week that the calendar starts on (Sun, Mon, Tue, etc).

While working on a project conversion to MVC I realized I needed a full month calendar that supported events. None existed so I spent a few evenings learning jQuery and developing my own. I just recently posted new pages on the project and submitted the plugin to jQuery.
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