Greetings and welcome to McDaniel Consulting's internet presence. I'm Sean McDaniel, owner of McDaniel consulting, and well frankly I'm a blogging noob. I sift through a lot of blogs and read a few religiously but I never really felt compelled to blog myself. I'm still sorting out what the content will be here but one thing is for certain and that is the focus will be software development.

I think I'll start off with a couple of entries related to my experience over the last 12 months developing a true single page RIA application on top of the Ext framework. This was the second time that I worked on a business application that employed Javascript for the client and let me say this time the experience was much less painful that the first thanks to frameworks like Ext (God bless you Jack Slocum). Since we were early adopters of Ext our application is based on v1.1.1 and is dialog driven. With a production date quickly approaching I've been looking into what it would take to migrate to 2.0. As part of this feasibility assessment I've been porting over a few of the custom widgets that we developed to the new Ext.Window class, the replacement for the now deprecated Ext.BasicDialog.

So stay tuned and look for an entry related to the Ext extension Ext.ux.WindowBlind. A simple blind solution for the Ext.Window class for displaying information to a user or collecting information via forms.