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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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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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Over the past 18 months or so I have become a heavy jQuery programmer. You can say a lot about using jQuery, one thing I thought I would never say is I love working with JavaScript, er I mean ECMAScript. As you start working with jQuery and JavaScript
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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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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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The year was 1993, I was attending Providence Baptist Church off Glennwood and DurRaleigh Rd. Little did I know that less than a mile away the FBI was conducting a huge raid and arrest of one of the world’s top hackers, Kevin Mitnick . Kevin Mitnick was
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Ok, so I know Visual Studio 2008 is the current version we are all using, right? But I have been a little behind on some of my books and well to be honest really using the cool features of Team System. So I got this book almost a year ago and finally
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Recently I was able to publish my first two eBooks via WROX BLOX, httpModules and httpHandlers . Each of these books gave me an opportunity to share some valuable information, experience and demonstrations on each of these niche topics that might otherwise
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Professional LINQ (Programmer to Programmer) by Scott Klein Read more about this book... I am really getting into LINQ right now, so I am looking for good references to get the concepts in my brain. I ordered a copy of Scott Klein's Professional LINQ
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WROX released my custom httpHandler eBook , Leveraging httpHandlers to Stream Custom Content in ASP.NET , late last week. It is the second part of two WROX BLOX I recently authored, the first being about custom httpModules . The main purpose of
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WROX , one of the .NET community's best friends over the years, has started a new line of eBooks called WROX BLOX. I like the idea of publishing in an eBook format, because you can buy just the part of the book you really want and it give authors the
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I recently got a copy of my friend Scott Forsyth's IIS 7 book from WROX. The book has 6 authors and covers just about everything you need to know about IIS 7. I have examined a few IIS 7 books and have played a little with IIS 7 so far. Professional IIS
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Thanks to everyone for attending my presentation at the Raleigh Code Camp . I was surprised at the turn out and you guys asked a lot of great questions. I wanted to post my slide deck for you guys. I will post a little sample project in the next day or
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My friend from Atlanta, Jim Wooley recently finished his book on LINQ, LINQ In Action . The book covers LINQ basics, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML and LINQ Extensions, see the LINQ In Action table of contents . I am looking forward to reading the book and
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Many years ago I saw there was an ASP.NET user group meeting here in the Triangle. That night their guest was Stephen Walther , who just impressed me beyond anything I had experienced up to that point in my development career. I think it was the first
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