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November 2006

Give Carl a Hand

Guys, Carl Camera can use some help with skins for Vine Type. He even makes is super easy—you don’t need to mess with CSS and XHTML. A PSD will suffice. Read this blog post

11/29/2006  | Discuss this post2 comments  |  No TrackBacks

Browsing Dirty

Raise your hand if you browse your site or web app in Internet Explorer with script debugging enabled. Not that any of you, folks, let it slide, but I’m amazed at how many web sites throw JavaScript exceptions right and left, to the point that you reach for the Task Manager and kill the iexplore.exe instance. You have to because there’s no escape from a gazillion prompts. Read this blog post

11/26/2006  | Discuss this post3 comments  |  No TrackBacks

Give Thanks

This year’s Thanksgiving parade in New York City was no different from those of the past couple of years—a show of brands and high school marching bands. I expressed my opinion about this worship of consumerism two years ago, so I’ll save my breath here. Read this blog post

11/26/2006  | Discuss this post1 comment  |  No TrackBacks

Bill Gates at Stanford University Video

Charlie Rose has a video of his one-hour interview with Bill Gates at Stanford University. It was surprising to see Gates on Thirteen/NY, as opposed to a cartoon my daughter was anticipating to find there. Read this blog post

11/26/2006  | Discuss this postNo comments yet  |  No TrackBacks

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2: Debugging and Tracing

Atlas offers a small, but handy, set of debugging primitives. As ScottGu mentioned, you can use FireBug (Firefox) or Nikhil’s WebDevHelper add-in for tracing. If I understand it correctly from reading the code, you can also declare a <textarea> element with id='TraceConsole', and it will receive debug output as well. Read this blog post

11/23/2006  | Discuss this post1 comment  |  No TrackBacks

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2: Basic DOM

Compared to some other JavaScript libraries, such as Prototype and its derivatives, the Microsoft AJAX Library doesn’t offer a whole lot of DOM manipulation. Still, it’s beta than nothing. Read this blog post

11/16/2006  | Discuss this post3 comments  |  No TrackBacks

Link Dump: JavaScript Singletons

A couple of links to posts and articles demonstrating the Singleton pattern in JavaScript: Read this blog post

11/15/2006  | Discuss this postNo comments yet  |  No TrackBacks

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2: Pseudo-Named Functions

I noticed in the debug "core" file a lot of functions are named in a funky way, e.g.: Read this blog post

11/12/2006  | Discuss this postNo comments yet  |  No TrackBacks

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2: Closures to Prototypes

I mentioned two posts by Bertrand Le Roy, From closures to prototypes part 1 and part 2, in my previous post. Although closures look hip and 1337 kids use them to declare JavaScript “classes”, the what’s-new whitepaper lists some very valid points for the switch. Instead of rehashing them, I’m going to simply rip them for your perusal. Read this blog post

11/12/2006  | Discuss this postNo comments yet  |  No TrackBacks

Sinking My Teeth Into ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2

I’ve been shopping around for a general-purpose JavaScript framework for a while now. There’s so much writing document.getElementById by hand you can do before it gets annoying. I’ve looked at Dojo, Prototype, Mootools, JQuery, Yahoo! User Interface Library and I forget what else. Atlas was on the very bottom of my list. I looked at the early bits, but wasn’t impressed.  Read this blog post

11/12/2006  | Discuss this post1 comment  |  No TrackBacks

Displaying Localized Text From Embedded JavaScript

Suppose you’re working on a sophisticated server control which occasionally displays JavaScript alerts and prompts. You put your JavaScript in a separate file, set its Build Action to Embedded Resource, decorate the control with [assembly: WebResource (....)], add the mandatory RegisterClientScriptResource, and you’re all set. Read this blog post

11/1/2006  | Discuss this post1 comment  |  No TrackBacks