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Today I was watching the Twitter stream out the corner of my left eye when I caught Paul Irish chatting with Stefan Hayden about why browsers do not include jQuery natively . As the thread progressed the tweet that caught my attention got me thinking:
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Taking screen shots of an application is essential to the development and marketing process. You really need something to reference to any marketing or advertising that people can see. After all how will I have a good idea if your application will actually
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Making any application as user friendly as possible is the primary goal of any User Experience Engineer, that is the person who is responsible for creating the applications actual UI layer. Back in the time of long, long ago I learned that users like
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Back in March I posted a quick announcement about the release of Internet Explorer 8 and a common problem I was having at the time. I think I finally determined what the issue was, and it was not really Internet Explorer 8, but rather sites that were
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I am sure just about any of us that have done any development work against a database, and who hasn’t, has come across this error, ‘String or binary data would be truncated’. This is really a warning more than it is an error, but will
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Recently I have been confronted with a movement that seems to hate using #Regions in source code files. Personally I really like using regions and I absolutely like the ability to collapse sections of code I am not directly working with. The opposing
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The web is great, it has helped me build relationships with folks from all over the world. Recently Bartek Marnane contacted me to let me know he was kicking off a new Blog about ASP.NET. Bartek is from Australia, which I am going to visit one day before
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I suddenly found myself getting this error the first time I tried to run a freshly minted ASP.NET 3.5 web site with the ScriptManager in place on the Master Pages. I did a quick search, but only found some references from the time before 3.5, and they
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Yesterday Google started hijacking 404 status codes through the Google Toolbar from unknowing Web sites to show pages with ads. TechCrunch even has a poll asking if you think the Google hijacking is a good thing or not. While Google publicly states they
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I never, and I mean never use the System.Web.UI.Page class as the class I inherit my Web Forms. I have a base class that I inherit from the Page class that has a set of methods and properties that I reuse many times over. Often I create more classes that
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I am excited to announce that I will be doing a GeekSpeak with Glen Gordon and Lynn Langit on November 28th . I will be showing how to practically use httpModules and httpHandlers. You can register to be a part of the live GeekSpeak presentation or catch
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Setting Up Custom Web.Config files for Development, QA and Production Servers - Scott Guthrie shows us a very valuable set of tricks for Enterprise development. What's New in .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) - You just do not see enough articles
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Recently I had a friend tell me they were working on a project where they had to hand scrub the data in their database. In particular that day they were manually scrubbing values like 'Not Applicable', 'NA' and 'N/A' which all meant the same thing. But
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I have decided that it would be useful to post a series of solutions to some fairly common problems encountered by many ASP.NET programmers. Some of these cures will be second nature to many, but they will all be a useful reference at some point in your
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