ASP.NET Resources

December 2004

Best Holiday Gift

I believe the best holiday gift is one you give, not buy. If you’ve ever done charitable work the notion of giving should be familiar to you. If you haven’t been caught up in the frenzy of holiday shopping I have a gift idea for you: donate to the victims of south Asia tsunami. Use a support form at UNICEF and decide for yourselves how much you can donate. Crazed retailers won’t go broke if you don’t spend this money with them. Remember, He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack (Proverbs 28:27).

12/30/2004 |

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Reclaim The Web With User Style Sheets

Mozilla browsers come with a wonderful feature that allows you to get rid of annoying content, such as online advertisements. The name of this feature is user style sheets. You control appearance of any web content with a configuration file, userContent.css. I’ve already spoken harsh words about online advertising, so this feature is a blessing.

12/25/2004 |

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Letter Picker Controls: Your Take

Quite often I see user controls or custom server controls which display every letter of an alphabet. For example, you click K and get a list of, say users, whose last name starts with a K. It’s very handy… except that I see a few problems with this approach and want to pick your brain on this.

12/22/2004 |

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Giving JavaScript Due Credit

Let’s do a virtual show of hands: how many of you, folks, don’t take JavaScript seriously? How many of you think there’s not much to it and it’s not worth the time actually learning it ’cause you can learn it by View Source alone?

12/18/2004 |

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Dear Satan... I Mean Santa

If you send an email to santa@northpole.net you will receive a nice friendly email back which proves that Santa does exist and, yes, they ran fiber optics or something to the North Pole. If you decide to use conventional mail services, though, make sure you address your letter appropriately. When I saw this letter to Santa I was laughing to tears. Seriously.

12/18/2004 |

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Topic Idea For Conference Speakers

At the last NYC .NET developer group meeting Andrew Brust mentioned that VSLive! 2005 will be akin to a conglomerate of conferences. Actually, 6 of them! I headed to the agenda page of ASP Live! to see if anyone picked up any topic related to web standards.

12/18/2004 |

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Announcing SmartyPants.NET

SmartyPants is another interesting project run by John Gruber, the author of Markdown. SmartyPants is very popular, and the two are often used in tandem. With this in mind I wanted to port both to C#.

12/8/2004 |

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Markdown.NET 1.0.1b7 Released

Since I released the initial version of my C# port of Markdown both authors, John Gruber (Perl) and Michel Fortin (PHP) have gone through a couple of rounds of bug fixing. I’ve brought my C# code in sync with theirs, ver. 1.0.1b7 as of today.

12/8/2004 |

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December 2004