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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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