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I love a good cheeseburger, always have. My all time favorite was a local grease pit in my hometown of Cleburne Texas that sadly is no more. Nonetheless I have many other options, especially when I go home to Texas, like this weekend! Today I came across
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If you know me you know I am a fanatic about application performance and that I am a big fan of Steve Souders and the practice of web performance optimization (WPO). In the past I have recommended both High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites
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This week we, my Tellago co-workers, had a background discussion about Instagram experiences scaling to 35 million users . Jesus sent around a PDF from a presentation Mike Krieger, one of the Instagram founders, gave recently. The 'first culprit'
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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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Last month Microsoft demonstrated IE9 on Windows Phone 7, a big w00t for that. But we won’t have a copy of IE9 on the Windows Phone 7 emulator for a while to come, and no I have no idea when the SDK will be updated. But I have started doing a lot of experimenting
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Testing desktop web applications means either having a fixed browser, typically the corporate standard, you target or testing across multiple browser versions. While developing mobile web sites drastically reduces the fragmentation inherent to native
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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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Recently I have been working through a client-side performance issue, which is isolated to Internet Explorer and is not fixed in Internet Explorer 9. The problem I am having is when I use the DataTables plugin to add sorting, filtering and paging to a
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Yesterday Microsoft finally released IE 9 Beta to the masses . To that I say HURRAY!!! I really, really like it. It almost supports HTML 5/CSS 3 completely (on that later), its really fast (in most cases) and decluttered the layout chrome. Among other
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I know, I know use FireBug and FireFox . I hear it all the time. I say meh, everyone does that. As I wrote last year, in IE 8 press F12 and Bazinga !!! You get the IE Developer tools. Read more about using the IE developer tools in my old post. But I
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Odds are if you are viewing this Blog with IE 6 you are in a large, slow moving corporation. I really doubt normal folks reading this Blog would still have IE 6 installed on their home or small business computers. If so, Bad Geek, Bad Geek, now go think
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Now that I have covered the basics of calling a WCF service using jQuery’s AJAX functionality with JSON its time to deal with bugs. Yep, we all create them and have to troubleshoot them on a daily basis. Even if you are not actually coding the WCF
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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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Today I was working on a Web Form and noticed a property in the TextBox control called AutoCompleteType . I had never noticed it before and my interest was piqued. My first thought was it must be an injected property from an AutoComplete extender on the
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Please Note I posted a follow up article to this one in June. Please read on how I resolved the issue . Today Microsoft released the Release version of Internet Explorer 8 (I would provide the link here but I am waiting for it to load in my browser..
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