February 2010 Entries
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” - Martin Golding ASP.NET/MVC & Web ASPNET MVC2: TempData Now Persists Maintainable MVC Series: View hierarchy QueryString values along with id parameter in ASP.NET MVC Encrypted Hidden Inputs in ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC and the Spark View Engine Updating/Binding Model Graphs with ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET, Part 8: Introducing ClientIDMode ...
“Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.” - Sam Ewing ASP.NET/MVC & Web ASP.NET, Part 7: A New Viewstate Opt-in Model Why you should check out MVC Three Ways to Populate a Select Element with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Display an Image when the GridView has no data Web Deployment: Web.Config Transformation ASP.NET MVC 2 Localization complete guide Herding Code 74: Javier Lozano On MVC Turbine And Composed Applications Simple...
“There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs” - Larry Flon ASP.NET/MVC & Web ASP.NET 4.0, Part 6: New Page Directive Attributes Three Ways to Populate a Select Element with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Sharpy - an ASP.NET MVC view engine based on Smarty I totally missed this… Web App Toolkits Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observables Accent Folding for Auto-Complete ...
“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.” - Alan Perlis ASP.NET/MVC & Web Manipulating Action Method Parameters Hanselminutes Podcast 202 - A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP Waking the dragon Partial Validation in ASP.NET MVC 2 Setting Up MVC Using StructureMap, Moq and NUnit...Quickly Developing ASP.NET MVC Apps Using Mono Improve the user experience. Avoid the first ajax request by embedding initial data in the page. ...
“I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.” - Dennie van Tassel ASP.NET/MVC & Web @haacked, @elijahmanor Have your voice heard. Tell the ASP.NET team what's important to you for ASP.NET. Add post-backs to MVC –or- add front controller to Web Forms Wait… what? @davidebbo T4MVC will also become part of MvcContrib in the Foundation. ASP.NET 4.0, Part 4: Config Transformation Files ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Validation With...
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re not.” - Yoggi Berra ASP.NET/MVC & Web How to access values of dynamically created web controls and submit to DB jQuery 1.4.2 is now available on Microsoft CDN as well as Google CDN ASP.NET 4.0, Part 3: Someone has stolen web.config! A BinaryContentResult for ASP.NET MVC Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC – AJAX-Enabled Partial Views Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2: The New Stuff Getting Started With ASP.NET...
“Any fool can use a computer. Many do.” – Ted Nelson ASP.NET/MVC & Web Adding properties to an asp.net masterpage Dynamic Master Pages in MVC Configure the Web Application for Forms Authentication Handling Errors With jQuery.load 12 Essential Captcha Solutions Combres - WebForm & MVC Client-side Resource Combine Library .NET & Programming NDepend v3 RC available Rollup Extension Method: Create Running Totals Using LINQ To Objects LINQ: ToLookup...
“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.” - Hofstadter's Law ASP.NET/MVC & Web Multi-tenancy in ASP.NET MVC - Controller Actions (Part I) ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Validation Introducing Sharpy New ASP.MVC View Engine Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC – WebPart Framework Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from Discount ASP.NET Microsoft Ajax Minifier Quick Start Microsoft...
“Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.” - Donald Knuth ASP.NET/MVC & Web ASP.NET MVC 2 Optional URL Parameters Using jqGrid’s search toolbar with multiple filters in ASP.NET MVC How To improve ASP.NET MVC Application Performance The Definitive Guide To Styling Web Links Javascript: Passing functions around with call and apply Javascript: Some stuff I learnt this week Top 10 Things that JavaScript Got Wrong CSS3 - Zoom...zoooom...zoooooom! ...
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford ASP.NET/MVC & Web Development Installing ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 on Visual Studio 2010 RC Have your cake and eat it too. Compressing JavaScript and CSS on The Fly Bundler Part 2 - ASP.NET Integration HTML5 vs. Flash Announcing Mastering ASP.NET Ajax Library with Craig Shoemaker New Tekpub series. Why Web Developers Should Switch to Google Chrome...
“Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.” - Jeff Pesis ASP.NET/MVC ASP.NET MVC security checklist Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC - What would you like to see? Using Microsoft's Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Serializing Chart Data Multi-tenancy in ASP.NET MVC – Views Spark Binaries for ASP.NET MVC RC2 Unofficial build, but awesome none-the-less! .NET “Nested Containers” in StructureMap 2.6.1 Challenge: Find the resource...
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” - Pablo Picasso ASP.NET/MVC T4MVC support for custom helpers Replacing MicrosoftMvcAjax.js Possible, yes. Good idea, who knows. ASP.NET MVC Complex Object ModelMetaData Issue Testing ASP.NET Sites for iPhone Code Magazine article on ASP.NET MVC 2 source code download More signs of FubuMVC getting real .NET Performance optimizations, managed code and leaky abstractions SmallestDotNet Update - Now with...
“The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.” - E. W. Dijkstra Yup, I celebrate 34 years on this earth today. My birthday wishes are health, happiness and Smartphones for all! ASP.NET/MVC ASP.NET MVC Performance I: Combining resources ASP.NET MVC Performance II: Optimizing resources Where to find the jQuery 1.4.1 vsdoc file Json in .NET Built-in Charting Controls (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) Using IIS Rewriting with MVC Routes...
“ The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. ” - Tom Cargill ASP.NET/MVC ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 Released Huzzah! Also read ScottGu’s detailed post. Installing and Setting Up and Encoding for IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight View Model pattern and AutoMapper in ASP.NET MVC Applications ASP.NET MVC Quick Tips – let’s get this rolling ...
I’m building out a website for a client in which the navigation text has a subtle drop shadow effect behind. Often I’d resort to an image to achieve this effect, but with most browser supporting at least some of CSS 3, especially text-shadow, I figured it would be worth a shot. text-shadow: 0px 0px 6px #001234;
So, with the above css, I ended up with this effect in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome:
Not bad, however IE completely ignores the effect. There is an alternative, in the form of the IE specific DropShadow filter, which has one major drawback.
It looks...
“ Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. ” - Eagleson's law ASP.NET/MVC Hanselminutes Podcast 198 - Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer Bonus points for never having heard of .NET (Rx). Real World S#arp Architecture Debugging ASP.NET generated code A Look at the GridView's New Sorting Styles in ASP.NET 4.0 Using FullCalendar jQuery component with ASP.NET MVC ...
“ Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. ” - Edward V Berard ASP.NET/MVC Spark learns to speak Fubu Coolness. ASP.NET MVC View Model object using C# 4 dynamic and ExpandoObject Am I the only one that thinks this when they hear ExpandoObject? What's new in ASP.NET MVC 2.0? jQuery Auto-Complete Text Box with ASP.NET MVC .NET Troubleshooting 0×80004004 in WSS 3.0...
“ If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ” - Edsger Dijkstra ASP.NET/MVC MVC Turbine v2.0 for MVC2 (.NET3.5) AutoMapper hits 1.0! Download now bogardj has more details. OpenRasta, or “How to speak REST” Linq to Sql and ASP.NET MVC – DataLoadOptions per Request A Simple and Robust jQuery 1.4 CDN Failover in One Line If that one line is a...
Finally getting around to seriously reading my copy of Domain Driven Design. Does that make me a bad developer? ASP.NET/MVC Remote Validation with ASP.NET MVC 2 Linq to Sql and ASP.NET MVC – AutoCommit and the RoutePreParser Validating a variable length list, ASP.NET MVC 2-style Screencast: Build an Asp.net MVC application quickly using MVCExtensions WebControls In MVC… again… Hmm, an *interesting* approach. Using jQuery in an ASP.NET MVC application To Create Stunning Tooltips -...