Technical Notes

Blog Direction

2006-03-03T22:54:00Z

I will no longer be posting to this blog. Around Christmas, I finally jumped on the Delicious bandwagon for my links. I don't comment on the links as much, but it's more efficient and better organized. You can find the links at http://del.icio.us/whodurun4 if you're looking for it.

Any future blog posts I have will be on my whodurun4 Blog. I will keep this blog online so it can serve as a resource for myself and other sin the future.

ASP.NET 2.0 resources

2006-01-03T14:11:00Z

Here's are some more helpful ASP.Net 2.0 tips and tricks:

Optimizing C# Refactoring Performance - Scott Guthrie shows how to improve this performance in web projects where it can degrade significantly
adding a client confirmation message to a GridView control
Conditional Compilation in ASP.NET 2.0 - K. Scott Allen

24 Gifts for Christmas

2005-12-29T15:06:00Z

Drew McLellan has given us all a great gift this year. His compilation of articles, 24 Ways has an web development article for each day in December leading up to Christmas. Each one looks good and had I found them sooner, I would have read them all. Here are some highlights:

He descibes how to allow users to edit a page and save the changes (Edit-in-Place) with Ajax
Richard Rutter keeps it simple in Easy Ajax with Prototype
Ethan Marcotte positions tabbed navigation in the center with CSS
Andy Clarke on layering items with z-index - this technique has the potential for awesome visual effects
Broader Border Corners by Patrick Griffiths creates rounded or other custom corners
Jeremy Keith uses the DOM to improve Blockquotes
Kimberly Blessing discusses Avoiding CSS Hacks for Internet Explorer - this will be huge with IE7 coming out

ASP.NET 2.0 Profiles

2005-12-29T14:43:00Z

K. Scott Allen wrote a nice overview of Profiles in ASP.NET 2.0 and added some comments about using a base profile class in his blogl

Web Forms Usability

2005-12-29T14:10:00Z

Brian Crescimanno's Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist presents a logical and thoughtful list of considerations for web form useability. His best idea may be using CSS to hide fields that have been filled in correctly to allow users to more easily see what information doesn't validate. My only concern is that might hide so much of the page the user could become disoriented.

.NET 2.0 Links and Resources

2005-12-28T19:03:00Z

Here are some links to various .NET 2.0 resources:

Codebehind and Compilation in ASP.NET 2.0 by Fritz Onion
Query Notifications in ADO.NET 2.0 by Bob Beauchemin
Changes to Validation Controls in ASP.NET 2.0 by Scott Mitchell
Custom Data Control Fields by Dino Esposito
questions and answers about ASMX 2.0, WSE 3.0 and WCF by Aaron Skonnard
Serializing, Consuming and Binding Generics by Thiru Thangarathinam

RSS Resources

2005-12-28T13:46:00Z

Continuing the catch-up theme of the week, here are links to RSS-related resources.

allowing readers to take action immediately by Mark Woodman
Syndication's Next Wave - presentation notes from Scott Gatz
another approach towards linking to feeds by Jeffrey Veen
download the feed icon agreed upon by Mozilla and Microsoft

Cookieless ASP.NET Sessions

2005-12-27T19:30:00Z

Dino Esposito has a whitepaper on the risks and benefits of cookieless ASP.NET sessions.

Unit Testing Maintenance

2005-12-27T17:22:00Z

Roy Osherove has an article on writing maintainable unit tests that helped me get to a place where I can use them practically.

ASP.NET Links, Resources and How Tos via Scott Guthrie

2005-12-27T14:32:00Z

For those looking to stay abreast of ASP.NET development, I highly recommend following Scott Guthrie's blog. He covers all sizes of topics and links to insightful articles. This past month he’s been so prolific I've been unable to keep up Here’s a quick list of his articles and links I need to make sure I don't lose thanks to his efforts.

Sharing Authentication Cookies between ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0 applications
Using the CLR Profiler to Tune ASP.NET Code by K. Scott Allen who's also had a bunch of nice articles
Richer CSS Support with the CSS Properties Window
Complex Data Binding Expressions by Fritz Onion
Cross-Page Navigation Techniques by Ting-hao Yang
ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapters

Pure CSS Image Switcher

2005-12-27T13:04:00Z

Here's a nice looking method to display different images when links are hovered by Ray Williams. It doesn't look overly complicated, but should be easily altered and extended, even by someone new to CSS such as myself.

Javascript Resources

2005-12-22T15:19:00Z

Aaron Gustafson created a javascript tracing routine called jsTrace. This is a new debugging technique I'll have to try.

Dean Edwards suggests an optimized method of object detection in javascript.

Avoiding Tables for Layout

2005-12-16T18:04:00Z

Bill Merikallio and Adam Pratt offer an educational and entertaining exortation on why to not use tables for layout on the web.

Non-Intrusive Javascript and Semantic XHTML

2005-12-16T17:11:00Z

Jeremy Keith gives a clear and excellent overview of using javascript and DHTML without cluttering your markup and a though-provoking piece about meaningful XHTML.

Embedding SQL Server Express in Applications

2005-12-16T13:58:00Z

Here's a whitepaper by MSDN on Embedding SQL Server Express in Applications.