October 2009 - Posts
Internet Explorer has been out for a while now, and I am very pleased with it, especially from a developer’s perspective. First I am more and more appreciative of the IE team getting CSS compliant, this is making it so much easier to create a consistent
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Trolling the ASP.NET forums again this morning, I know I do it a lot, I found a question trying to parse the paragraphs out of a series of text. So I knew I had to answer it. The regular expression needed is '(.+)'. This tells the Regular Expression object
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I have a new talk I am giving this Fall at user groups called Bigger, Stronger, Faster : Making Quality .NET Applications Fast and Bug Free. The premise behind the talk is really an answer to a common question I get, ‘How do you create web sites so fast?’.
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Thanks to everyone who attended my new talk on making money with affiliate marketing. I loved the interactions and wish we had another 75 minutes to get more detailed. I am posting my slide deck and resources for you to download. And remember; DO SOMETHING!!!
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Last Summer, around August 2008, I started work on my latest book and spent the next 5 months working on updates to the Beer House application . WROX asked me to write the book and only had 2 requirements: 1) Use Entity Framework 2) Add more AJAX to the
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I have really gotten into using JQuery a lot this year, as I think just about anyone who is a web developer has in the past year or two. ASP.NET developers we inevitably will use Web Form controls, which have an Id property we define. This Id property
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I found an intersting question on the ASP.NET forums this morning. How can you get a count of the capital letters in a string? My first thought was, 'This is a Job for Regex!'. If you are not familiar with regular expressions, please get to know
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