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As you may or may not seen on Twitter the last 3 weeks or so, I accepted an offer to work with appendTo, LLC - The jQuery Company. I first met the CEO (Mike Hostetler) and President (Jonathan Sharp) of appendTo back in January while I was at the launch of jQuery 1.4 in Washington DC. After the unf... [More]

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If you haven’t heard already, I am looking for a new job opportunity… and yes, I realize the title of this blog is speaking in the 3rd person ;) I am primarily looking for a full-time position where I can either work in a Nashville office or work remotely from Nashville. I am a Microsoft MVP of AS... [More]

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  Introduction There are a lot of articles out there that show you how to integrate with the jQuery jqGrid Plugin from a listing, paging, sorting approach, but I haven’t seen many that show the integration with the add/edit/delete features that jqGrid offers. It turns out that it isn’t ver... [More]

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I saw an interesting tweet by Remy Sharp (@rem) the other day that sparked my interest. So, I proceeded to research the Geolocation API and look up various web services that allowed me to utilize JSONP requests from jQuery. Here is some pseudocode to describe what I came up with… if (Your bro... [More]

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Client-Side Unit Testing The goal of this blog post is to show how you can utilize some helpful techniques to easily Unit Test your Web Application. In this post I will focus on Unit Testing the Client-Side validation rules that ASP.NET MVC generates. You can apply the following techniques to ... [More]

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Recently a brand new Microsoft website has been launched called Script Junkie that focuses on JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more… Script Junkie Website Twitter (@script_junkie) Twitter List of Authors (@script_junkie/script-junkie-authors) Script Junkie RSS Feed Over the past 7 mon... [More]

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A Typical Switch Statement Scenario Recently I’ve been working on some highly dynamic User Interfaces and at one point in the project I found my first reflex on a certain task to use a switch statement in JavaScript. Now, my previous training in studying the Design Patterns has told me that the sw... [More]

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I updated the Couch Potato bookmarklet to add the ability to expand and collapse the details of each document from the list page by clicking the “+” to the left of the document key. You can also click the “Expand All Documents” action located in the right navigation column. The Bookmarklet To ... [More]

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The Problem We’ve been using CouchDB in our current project at work and I’ve been using the CouchDB Futon manager more and more lately to create, edit, or delete documents. After a lot of test data gets into our document store, I end up needing to clear out the documents. I could Delete the who... [More]

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If you have used ASP.NET MVC any, then you are probably aware of the MVC Contrib project hosted on CodePlex. It is a helpful library that provides useful tools that ASP.NET MVC doesn’t give you out of the box. Opinionated Input Builders One of the pieces that I really like is the Opinionated Inpu... [More]

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jsFiddle I’ve been using jsFiddle more and more to test and share JavaScript and jQuery code. Although I love that jsFiddle shows the HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Results window all at the same time, I also would love to somehow see the output of the console window in the User Interface. Depending ... [More]

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In case you haven’t heard from the end of the Rey Bomb #2 Episode of The Official jQuery Podcast, I announced that after 21 episodes I am stepping down as my role of co-host. Around the time I first joined the podcast I also started to become involved with some intense writing projects (as will b... [More]

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This year I was chosen by the community to speak at Mix10 as one of the Open Call sessions. I was honored to be selected and thoroughly enjoyed attending Mix10 and building relationships. My session was entitled 6 Things Every jQuery Developer Should Know This seminar provides an overview of se... [More]

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Although I’ve switched to Google Chrome as my primary web browser, I still switch over Firefox every once in a while for one reason or another. With the recent release of Firefox 3.6 you might find some of your favorite add-ons no longer in working because they haven’t yet been updated to support ... [More]

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Today Phil Haack posted a mini math challenge on twitter… This seemed like a good opportunity to launch js.Fiddle and hack out some code…   The answer... is 2520 ;)

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I was looking at some source code the other day and found some 3D ASCII text. It brought back memories of using UNIX and PINE for e-mail during my college days. I decided to go on a hunt for the 3D ASCII font and found this site… http://patorjk.com/software/taag/ Once you find the font that you ... [More]

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I recently finished reading the 51 Tips, Tricks, and Recipes with jQuery & ASP.NET Controls eBook by Suprotim Agarwal. The eBook is $14.99 and it comes with a 14 day 100% money back guarantee. It can be ordered from the DotNetCurry website. This eBook reminded me a lot of Cody Lindley’s jQuery ... [More]

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Mix 2010, a 3 day Microsoft conference for web designers and developers, recently opened up to all developers the opportunity to submit sessions that will be voted upon and possibly included in the conference line-up.  Voting for these sessions begins today (January 5, 2010) and will close o... [More]

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I got an interesting Twitter question the other day and thought I would blog about it to help anyone who has a similar situation. Question Hey buddy! How can I do a simple thing as loading a page into a div using Ajax and on the loaded page, execute a simple task as executing a javascript with ... [More]

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I was reading Paul Irish’s (@paul_irish) recent blog post entitled Updates from all around – Dec 2009 and I saw an interesting for loop syntax that he referenced… for (var i = -1, len = arr.length; ++i < len; ) // the cool guy loop He went on further to show some performance results of the ab... [More]

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As many of you are aware, I am a frequent Tweeter and regularly distribute Web Developer technology related links for .NET and jQuery via my Tech Tweets. Historically, my main concern was to just gather the latest web dev news and Tech Tweet those out to the public. However, more and more many of... [More]

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To end off the year, I thought I’d generate a quick Tweet Cloud that represents my top word usage on Twitter. I think the above image pretty much sums up my presence on Twitter ;) As if you didn’t know before, I mostly tweet about ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and general Web Dev related topics. The ab... [More]

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I get a lot of questions about how I go about finding and distributing my Tech Tweets on a day to day basis. Some people even have the notion that I just sit at my computer and tweet all day. I thought I’d put together some of these questions and answer them for you. The process is ongoing and re... [More]

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You might be wondering “Where Did @elijahmanor’s Tech Tweets Go?”. I actually wasn’t aware of this issue until I had several people asking where my tech tweets went. It seems that there is an issue with my account on Twitter today starting around 9AM CST. In order to see my tweets there is a worka... [More]

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Since my last post I wondering if there was a better way to visualize my tweets. The Word Cloud was a nice feature, but I wanted more. I thought about using the Google Annotated Time Line chart, but it didn’t quite give me what I was looking for. Well, it turns out there is a really cool JavaScript ... [More]

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With all the Google Closure news recently, I thought I would play around a little more with what Google has to offer. I’ve been impressed with their charting options that have been available in Google Docs and noticed that they are also available to use outside of Google Docs. After looking through... [More]

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I was talking to a friend a couple of weeks ago and he was looking for some plugin that would visually flip over a section of the screen (like flipping an index card). He had a master/detail layout and wanted to be able to click on a link from the master, the content would flip, and then the detail ... [More]

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For those of you who don’t know I recently started a beard growing contest called Whiskerino! Whiskerino is a 4 month beard growing contest starting November 1st, 2009 and proceeding through Feburary 28th, 2010. The basic idea behind Whiskerino is… Shave completely clean, post images regula... [More]

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This time Devexpress has offered to giveaway 3 separate licenses of their CodeRush with Refactor Pro Visual Studio add-on each with a value of $249.99! CodeRush with Refactor Pro is a productivity tool that can assist you in your programming efforts. There are many features that can catapult your p... [More]

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Introduction I just finished reading the jQuery Enlightenment eBook by Cody Lindley (@codylindley) and let me tell you it was definitely worth my time ;) You may be already familiar with Cody Lindley as the author of the modal jQuery plug-in Thickbox. As stated by the author, this eBook is intend... [More]

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In case you  hadn’t heard yet, the Official jQuery Podcast (@jQueryPodcast) has officially been announced. It was first announced at the StackOverflow DevDays event in Toronto, ON, Canada on Friday Oct 23rd, 2009 and then it was tweeted yesterday by the @jQueryPodcast account and retweeted by... [More]

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Recently as I develop with jQuery, I’ve been trying to either use jQuery UI ThemeRoller supported plugins or somehow tweak existing jQuery plugins to support the ThemeRoller classes. Note: There are many plugins out there that already support ThemeRoller (and you can find a list I’ve compiled in m... [More]

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Most of you have seen many jQuery Cheat Sheets out in the wild, but as of recently there are now also many ASP.NET MVC Cheat Sheets to chose from. If you know of any other ASP.NET MVC Cheat Sheets, please let me know and I’ll add it to the above list. I hope these prove to be helpful for you. You m... [More]

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I am always looking for more ways I can integrate features of MVC Contrib into my ASP.NET MVC projects. I also have started using David Ebbo’s T4MVC Template that generates strongly typed helpers for ASP.NET MVC (download). Before I integrated these tools my script and style includes looked like… ... [More]

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Well, its time for another great giveaway. This time SubMain has offered to giveaway 2 of their CodeIt.Right Enterprise Edition licenses that are valued at $600.00 each! For those of you don’t know, CodeIt.Right is a Visual Studio plugin that assists in their development process. Here are some of ... [More]

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As I woke up this morning I checked my Twitter feed on my iPhone and saw the following tweet… RT @Zannabanana: Welcome back MVPs! @robzelt @plitwin @DanWahlin @anthony808 @chadcampbell & Welcome new MVPs @SaraJChipps and @elijahmanor Wow, what a way to wake up in the morning! As you mi... [More]

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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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I got the following tweet yesterday… damanlovett: @elijahmanor You seem like a #jquery guru. ? 4 U, is it possible to use a dialog box to submit form data. And as it turned out, I had just had issues with submitting form data with the jQuery BlockUI Plugin the previous day & was able to find a work around (as I blogged hours after he asked me).

Although I blogged about a workaround hours later, I thought he might need a quicker answer so I went on the lookout for an online code sharing website to post and share the code with him.

I’ve used one or two of these services in the past, but at the time I was drawing a blank so I tweeted the question…

  elijahmanor: I'm having a brain freeze... what is that service where you can post a snippet of code online & get a URL to share w/ others?

Moments later I was flooded with lots of different online options to share code.

Here are 8 online services that I received via twitter replies or that I found separately…

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For some reason, some popups in Firefox have been opening with the wrong size for the content displayed and the resize feature was disabled for the windows. After some research, I found that in Firefox you can override this behavior by changing one of the many user preferences. To do this ... [More]

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