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This afternoon @DamienGuard asked how to select labels that are associated with input elements. I think I have an answer for him, or at least something that should be able to get him on the right track. If not, oh well its still pretty neat. One of the
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Software development is a collection of trade offs; performance for speed to market, quick & dirty vs. maintainable, on and on. Most tend to sacrifice user experience at some level for time to market, other do not consider maintainability, reliability.
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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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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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This is so long overdue, but I told Dave Ward last Summer I would post this Blog and well I have not been so good on that commitment. If you want to validate a form that is organized using the jQuery UI Tabs widget you probably need to perform validation
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I had a great time presenting my jQuery, WCF Databinding talk at the Philly Code Camp yesterday. As usual I keep adding ‘features’ to the demonstration application I use in the session. Since I last delivered the talk I added a few creature comforts of
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If you are into jQuery you no doubt know who John Resig is, the creator of jQuery. Well before jQuery hit the scenes John wrote Pro JavaScript Techniques , by Apress. I have really been digging into the bowls of how JavaScript works because I am doing
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One of the big announcement at MIX 10 besides the Windows Phone Development stuff was a new jQuery plugin to do data templating. This comes is some very welcome news for me. If you have followed me this year or caught one of my talks I have been spending
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At the end of the day yesterday one of my peers at my client came over and asked me how to randomly select an item from a SharePoint List. She was retrieving the list using jQuery and only wanted to display one item from the list, but she wanted that
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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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Yesterday’s post reviewed how to setup a WCF web service to work with JSON from top to bottom. Today I am going to review what needs to be done to use JQuery to work with those WCF end points. If you have not already done so please download the example
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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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Over the past couple of years I have written and presented on custom HttpModules . One of my examples is how to spin up a background thread to perform work not related to processing a web request. I thought I would extend the usefulness of this technique
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In my last post I waxed philosophically about the progression of ASP.NET . Today I want to start actually demonstrating how to take ASP.NET to the next level, at least in my opinion. The first thing I always add to a new web site is a contact form. Basically
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This morning I was trolling the ASP.NET Forums and saw this question about registering the Virtual Earth control (it is really not a control, but that is not relevant to this post) and realized I had the same issue just the other day. The person posting
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