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Using The Provider Model In ASP.NET 2.0
I think by now, most ASP.NET developers have come across some of the different provider models in ASP.NET 2.0. Most likely the Membership, Roles and SiteMap provider but also the custom provider model that you can use to create your own providers.
Date: 2007-12-12
Rackspace: Two reasons you should host with us before 2008
We take on the day-to-day burdens that bog down your IT department, so it can get back to focusing on the important things. That means that you'll never have to implement, update, troubleshoot, patch, monitor, administer, backup data or worry again. That's what managed hosting means at Rackspace.
Date: 2007-11-23
Two Days of Free Hands-On BlackBerry Developers Training in Australia! Seats are limited.
If you are a developer or IT administrator who would like to start creating BlackBerry® applications, this free BlackBerry Developer Seminar series is a must-attend. Featuring all new content, this exclusive annual event gives you a complete overview of all BlackBerry development methodologies — as well as a sneak peak at the future of mobile platforms.
Date: 2007-11-13
Spry's Cool HTML Panel
A few days ago I blogged about Spry's HTML panel. This is a rather cool, and simple, way to load content into a region of your web page via Ajax.
Date: 2007-11-06
An Old School AJAX Call That Just Works
Today I was working on a web page that performs an AJAX call on unload, so when a person navigates away from the page, the AJAX call is triggered. The goal was to register that the visitor navigated away from the page so just a one-way call was needed.
Date: 2007-10-23
Code From ColdFusion Boot Camp & Tip About ColdFusion 8 And JSON
I just gave a quick CF Boot Camp at MAX on using ColdFusion to send data to Spry. It covers going from static to CF6, CF7, and CF8 dynamic data. I've zipped up the code below. Note that it makes use of a database you won't have (I'll try to use the art gallery from now on) and I've removed the personal pictures of my kids.
Date: 2007-10-03
Create BlackBerry Applications with New Developer Tools
At Research In Motion (RIM), we celebrate cutting edge thinking, and are committed to helping you produce outstanding applications to further your business. We invite you to browse our wealth of developer resources.
Date: 2007-09-06
Custom Grid Renderers W/ CFGRID
I've been playing a bit with CFGRID lately (as have others) and I found that by taking a look at Ext's documentation, there are some very powerful features hiding within the CFGRID tag.
Date: 2007-08-21
Time To Unleash Web 2.0 With Open Source
Web 2.0 companies are largely built upon Open Source software. But how many of them do you consider significant contributors to Open Source? In general, there is an open ethic, and communities demand (and reward) it.
Date: 2007-07-31
How Will Users React To PHP4 EoL?
The PHP development team officially announced PHP 4 end of life (EoL)...
Date: 2007-07-17
Implementing Micro Formats On Your Site
Micro formats have existed for some years now, but it hasn't been useful for anything until now. If you don't know what micro formats are, then here is an explanation from Wikipedia: A Microformat (sometimes abbreviated ?F or uF) is a way of adding simple semantic...
Date: 2007-06-26
Comment The Class Before Coding
The planning phase of most projects no matter the size result in some kind of documentation or manuals for coding. It could be a rough sketch of the data flow, a UML diagram, feature specifications etc.
Date: 2007-06-11
Design / Development Hacks To Save Time & Money
I have been writing too many in theory type posts, so here is a post offering many practical tips to increase productivity and lower your site development costs.
Date: 2007-05-29
When To Use Graphics On Your Website
Overall, using text is more preferrable, than using graphics (images, pictures, Flash and so on) on a website, because it is easier to understand and remember - and also accessible to the people and the search engines.
Date: 2007-05-15
Web Developer Interview Questions
SEOMoz has a quick list of their favorite web developer questions, and it is a very impressive list. I think in general sharing the types of interview questions that we generally ask all the time is a good thing.
Date: 2007-05-01
Direct Web Remoting (DWR)
DWR is a process that stores the java classes back on the server rather than passing those classes to the web browser. Why is this good? More control over how data is sent between the browser and the server as well as setting up better expectations on what data is going to be requested and what is going to be sent.
Date: 2007-04-17
The Ultimate Wordpress Htaccess File
Canonicalization is a serious problem for webmasters, just read this latest entry by Matt Cutts or this great post from John Andrews. However telling webmasters that they should fix these issues isn't enough, webmasters & bloggers need solutions.
Date: 2007-04-03
Psychological Variables & Properties
I've noticed that there are two different ways developers locate private variables used by properties.One way is to locate the private variable next to the property that returns them and all other private variable located elsewhere..
Date: 2007-03-15
Spry - Checking For A Valid URL
There has been a UDF released for a while now that would check to see if a URL is valid. Ben wrote urlExists over a year ago. Along with isValid(), you can check both the form and existence of a URL.
Date: 2007-03-01
JavaScript Badges, Widgets Considered Harmful
For a long time now I've been meaning to write about the seemingly ubiquitous JavaScript Badges/Widgets/Thingies that you see on blogs and web sites everywhere.
Date: 2007-02-13
ASP.NET: Access Client Info Server-side
I was playing around with HTTP request headers and for some reason started thinking about how limited information they provide about the requesting browser.
Date: 2007-01-30
Creating Web2.0 Apps W/ AJAX & Clientside HTTP Requests
Web2.0 is a term coined to refer to web applications that run without visible page refreshes. A normal website functions by delivering pages of information, with links that allow a user to move from page to page.
Date: 2007-01-16
Data Saving In Case Of Browser Crashes
So a few days ago I posted a question on the BlogCFC blog about whether I should add "crash protection" to the BlogCFC entry editor. What did I mean by that? As much as I love Firefox, it isn't the most stable beast in the world.
Date: 2007-01-02
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