Increase Your Website Performance by Hosting jQuery with a CDN

30. September 2009
In the following screencast I will demonstrate how to speed up your website by using a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Specifically, I will be swamping out a local copy of jQuery with one hosted by Google. You can host a variety of files (example: jQuery, jQuery UI, Prototype, script.aculo.us, MooTo... [More]

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Quickly Testing Various jQuery UI Themes on Your Website

29. September 2009
The following short screencast shows how you can use the jQuery UI ThemeRoller Firefox Bookmarklet to quickly switch the theme on your webpage in order to compare and tweak out the colors that is just right for your website.   Not only do the jQuery UI Plugins support the jQuery UI Themes, b... [More]

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Jumpstarting Your Next jQuery Plugin with an Online Tool

22. September 2009
The following screencast focuses on how to quickly make a jQuery plugin. The intent is not to dig deep into the ins and outs of a jQuery Plugin’s wiring. If that is what you are looking for there are many other good tutorials out there for that such as… You Still Can’t Create a jQuery Plugin? b... [More]

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Unit Testing with jQuery using FireUnit & QUnit

21. September 2009
Today’s screencast is the 5th in a series of developer Firefox Extensions. You can view my previous 3 short Screenr screencasts here… Firefinder for Firebug for Firefox for Fiddling with jQuery Digging Into The FireQuery Add-on for jQuery Page Speed & YSlow Firebug Extensions to Inc... [More]

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Using StructureMap with ASP.NET MVC & MVC Contrib

21. September 2009
I’ve found myself using the MVC Contrib project more and more lately. There are tons of golden framework nuggets just waiting to be used. I recently integrated StructureMap into the my current ASP.NET MVC framework using MVC Contrib. The reason I decided to write this post is because most of the re... [More]

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ASP.NET AJAX Add-ons (FireAtlas & FireCookie) for Firefox's Firebug

18. September 2009
Today’s screencast is the 4th in a series of developer Firefox Extensions. You can view my previous 3 short Screenr screencasts here… Firefinder for Firebug for Firefox for Fiddling with jQuery Digging Into The FireQuery Add-on for jQuery Page Speed & YSlow Firebug Extensions to Inc... [More]

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Reasons Why .NET Developers Love Their MacBook Pros

17. September 2009
Initial Questionnaire I recently posted an informal survey asking .NET Developers why they love their MacBook Pros and I want to thanks the 51 individuals who responded to my survey. Objective Results The first four questions (other than name, twitter, etc…) were general questions about their Ma... [More]

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Page Speed & YSlow Firebug Extensions to Increase Web Page Performance

17. September 2009
Today’s screencast is the 3rd in a series of developer Firefox Extensions. You can view my previous 2 short Screenr screencasts here… Firefinder for Firebug for Firefox for Fiddling with jQuery Digging Into The FireQuery Add-on for jQuery You will most likely be asked to speed up the per... [More]

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Digging Into The FireQuery Add-on for jQuery

16. September 2009
Yesterday I posted my first short Screenr screencast Firefinder for Firebug for Firefox for Fiddling with jQuery Today I decided to record another screencast, and I decided to dig into the FireQuery add-on for Firebug. FireQuery adds extra functionality to the HTML tab and allows you to vis... [More]

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Firefinder for Firebug for Firefox for Fiddling with jQuery

15. September 2009
Tonight I created my first Screenr screencast showcasing the Firefinder Add-on for the popular Firebug Add-on for the even more popular Firefox browser :) Whew, that was a mouth full! Firefinder is a helpful tool when creating a selector for jQuery, which is usually where you start for most jQuery ... [More]

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Maintain Scroll Position On Page Refresh Using ASP.NET or jQuery

14. September 2009
There is a feature of ASP.NET that isn't widely known called MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback, which is a common way of maintaining the scroll position after a Postback. Behind the scenes ASP.NET passes a hidden variable with the page location and resets it with JavaScript after the page re-renders.... [More]

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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 TDD Book Review

10. September 2009
I recently finished reading Emad Ibrahim’s ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development book and I thought I would do a detailed review and share my thoughts and findings. Before I get into the details of the book, it is important to know that the audience of this book is not for novice programmers or ... [More]

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Recursively Unblock Assemblies with Streams

10. September 2009
Ever since my recent blog post Unblocking Assembly Due to AspNetHostingPermission Security Exception I have been pretty careful about unblocking Assemblies after downloading them from the internet. However, today I decided to download the MVCContrib.Extras.release.zip which has over 100 assemblies,... [More]

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Migrated from dasBlog to BlogEngine.NET

2. September 2009
Well, I just migrated from dasBlog to BlogEngine.NET and I am pleased with the results. Initially I just wanted a fresher looking blog theme for dasBlog, but then as I looked more into BlogEngine.NET I was impressed with the features and out-of-box support. There are still some some migration i... [More]

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DXperience ASP.NET Subscription Giveaway

2. September 2009
Well, its time for another great giveaway. This time the great people at Devexpress have offered one of their premier products worth $799.99! For this giveaway, you have a chance to win one license of DXperience ASP.NET Subscription with over 20+ ASP.NET controls. In addition, you’ll get updates an... [More]

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