I susbscribe to The Code Project’s newsletter and today I got some great news, jQuery will be supported in Visual Studio 2008. Now this is some awesome news. Makes one wonder if the Microsoft AJAX library will become redundant. You can read the full article on Scott Gu’s website.
So Silverlight has gone from Beta 2 to Release Candidate and this means that developer tools have to be updated again. This is a pain sometimes, but I guess it goes with liking to develop on a particular platform (.NET). You can read Scott Gu’s article here.
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So Google released their own browser, Chrome about three weeks ago. As with many things in life if something is interesting and new everybody is likely to have a try, or look at it, but as soon as the shine wears off they will go back to their old habits. The same sentiment holds true [...]
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Have you ever seen any of the Steve Ballmer videos on Youtube where he sells Windows? Well here is another one, but interestingly enough if you click through to the Windows I’m a PC Website you browse through a myriad of short video clips of people that say “I’m a PC”. This is Microsoft’s attempt [...]
A useful way to model aspects of life, learning or business is through the use of mind maps. One could use pen and paper, which is great, but it is more effective to create a digital version of a mind map through the use of some software. A great tool for this job is called [...]
I found a really cool Silverlight/Flash website that basically shows you how to do the same thing using both sets of technologies. The site is called Shine Draw. Its interesting to note that in all the projects the Silverlight projects’ file sizes were almost double in size.
I realised today that moving forward in life does not always involve immediate positive decisions. Moving forward in life often involves taking decisions that take you away from comfort zones and into less known areas. It happens. Its also important as a professional to continuously strive to get better at what you do, and often [...]
Both the GridView and DropdownList server controls provided in ASP.NET have DataSource and DataBind methods. This means that you could write the same code to populate both controls with data from a database. So first you would create a method for a class like this: public DataTable GetData() { string strSQL = “select * from [...]
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Ok so here is the thing right, I have been using one or more Wiki’s as a modelling tool for my projects without anyone ever telling me to use it in that way, so amazingly I found an article that gives you the do’s and don’ts of using a Wiki within an IT project environment. [...]
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