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This year MIX is letting you, the community, determine some of the content available during the conference. I, along with many others submitted different sessions to be voted on by, well anyone! You can choose up to 5 sessions . Voting closes on January
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The other day I gave an intro to JQuery Lunch and Learn to my client’s development team. I walked them through creating a simple JQuery Plugin to create a character remaining feature like Twitter has on its web site. The ingredients for this plugin involved
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Over the last year I have been spending a lot of time re-learning how to use CSS. Since ASP.NET was released the use of Web Controls had made me CSS and HTML ignorant. With the advent of ASP.NET MVC and JQuery combined with the increasing demand for richer
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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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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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Trolling the ASP.NET forums this week I came across a good question, “ setting the background on a master page div at run-time? ”. Even though the person posted he found an acceptable solution before I posted my response, I think the user has a complicated
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Yesterday I answered a question on the ASP.NET forums on how to create a ‘frame’ around an image . I answered it with some code from the new Beer House I wrote last fall. In the book I show how to add a drop-shadow around an image using CSS. The code
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The past few months I have been trying to learn more about user experience and design patterns. This has led me to learn more about how to use the tools available to me to provide better user experiences, namely CSS and JQuery. I have been writing quite
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I was trolling the ASP.NET forums tonight and found a very good question from ctrlctrl, . He wanted to know how to ‘grey’ out the page while he was waiting on a long running process on the server. The answer is pretty simple, it involves a little AJAX
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