Gosh I have been busy of late, hardly any time to blog these days. However, Friday afternoon always seems to give me a little time to write and a week of work usually turns up something worth blogging about. This week (surprise, surprise) I will touch on some jQuery but the main focus is an [...]
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Mocks n Stuff
Eventually in your development career you will have to create Mock objects to get your work done, especially if you are working with distributed systems. You don’t always have access to some parts of the system, in fact they may not even exist yet. That just happens to be the case with some work I [...]
Default buttons made easy ala jQuery
A while back I wrote a post about multiple default buttons on a form which I needed to revisit recently and as is always the way when you look back at some old code I ended up saying to myself "What the hell were you thinking?". I had a mild chuckle to myself as I [...]
Implementing a ‘Please select’ option with jQuery, jQuery Validation and asp.net
Continuing with my love of jQuery, today I bring you a few little snippets of code for working with select lists that have a “Please select’ entry indicating a user should select an option. As an additional added bonus (this is one of those “but wait, there’s more” moments) I will throw in some jQuery [...]
Fiddling saved my bacon.
Do you ever have those days when you are writing code and everything is going great and then all of a sudden some little thing crops up and before you know it you have lost a half day trying to figure out one little thing? Well today was one of those days for me. It [...]
BondiGeek launches Clucky using nopCommerce
Well it feels like it has been a long time coming but finally we have got Clucky across the finish line and Open for Business. What is Clucky? Clucky is the brainchild of Luisa Peters whose passion for just about everything she does never ceases to amaze. She has a keen eye for photography, a [...]
Shine your Silverlight on Azure
So yesterday we saw the Mix10 Videos Silverlight Application discussed in a blog post, today we are going to go global with Windows Azure. If you have absolutely no idea what I am talking about with regards to Azure, perhaps you think I am talking about the colour Azure, well head on over to Microsoft [...]
Windows Azure + SQL Azure Firestarter
I hopped on to the iPad in bed last night (sounds a bit rude doesn’t it) and watched one of the many Mix10 videos that I am working through. This particular video was ‘Lap around the Windows Azure Platform’ given by @smarx. It was a great presentation and gave me a good heads up on [...]
ManagedFusion – Apache mod_rewrite for .NET
This little gem is a .NET dll, weighing in at 97kb that can be used to provide friendly urls for any asp.net web sites that you might be creating. If you are familiar with Apache mod_rewrite then you know how powerful this can be for url rewriting and relatively easy to use. Being a well [...]
Optimise your Ajax – Script Combining
As of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Microsoft has lovingly provided us with script combining right out of the box. What is this script combining all about I hear some of you say? Take a look at the YSlow Statistics and Firebug Net trace below in Firefox: YSlow Statistics Firebug Net Trace Now this is [...]
