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Recently I have been creating single page web applications utilizing URL fragments . Essentially this is a new twist to an old technique that has been around for a very long time. While not used as much these days I remember around a decade ago
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Yesterday I talked about how creating traditional <A> driven navigation can be problematic in today’s touch first world . In yesterday’s demonstration I pointed out how using hyperlinks and a traditional menued navigation scheme can
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3-4 years ago I started my change from being an ASP.NET Webforms developer to being an ASP.NET AJAX application developer. This meant finally breaking down and learning how to create applications using JavaScript, a task I was not happy about. The first
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Yesterday Microsoft released an update to Visual Studio 2010 to implement a much improved HTML5 & CSS3 support. You can download the Web Standards update from the Visual Studio Gallery and enjoy the new features immediately. I downloaded it last night
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Shock is not quite effective in describing my internal reaction when I was told the upcoming release of Internet Explorer Mobile (being released with Mango) will NOT support touch . I mean I am happy it will support most of the HTML5 standards other platforms
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Lately I have been spending a lot of time learning about browser touch support. First I read through the Touch API draft so I would be familiar with the touch events browsers are now supporting. My first instinct was to see if binding touch event handlers
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Today I want to show you how to build a Windows Phone 7 Application Bar for your mobile web sites. If you have not done any native Windows Phone 7 developer one of the standard features is the ability to build a toolbar containing up to 4 icons and a
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The other day I was talking some fellow developers about web architecture techniques. I brought up the use of jQuery templates instead of another proposed technique. A case was made the template plugin was not good for progressive enhancement. The objection
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Recently a new Patterns and Practices group has formed called Project Silk . The goal of Project Silk is to provide guidance to web developers on architecting great standards compliant web sites. Today I am spending the day with the team and about 30
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I am very excited about the next couple of weeks because I will have a great opportunity to meet some folks and talk about some things I really love. Starting tomorrow night I will be speaking at the Deerfield Beach FL (my operating base for the past
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Last week I used a TreeView to demonstrate the new jQuery Templating plugin. The code technique to build the TreeView came from O’Reilly’s jQuery Cookbook . I picked this book up back in January and I still find myself referencing it each week. I was
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Last week I created a Tree View using the new jQuery Templating plugin. The example shows how to display a series of expandable tree nodes to see crab pot strings used by a fleet of crab boats. Today I am going to extend this example to show another Template
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Recently I have had a nagging issue I honestly had a hard time recreating, till today that is. The situation occurred when I added and removed DOM elements in reaction to a user checking and unchecking a checkbox. If the user tabs to the next field, they
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Yesterday I posted an entry on dealing with larger result sets that cause Fidder to create a ReadResponse() failed error . In that post I mentioned I turned on WCF Tracing to help debug the problem. This is a setting that when turned on causes the WCF
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If you have found this Blog entry most likely you are seeing this response in Fiddler . It is accompanied by an HTTP status code of 504. ReadResponse() failed: The server did not return a response for this request is not very helpful and in fact fairly
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