In my post yesterday I mentioned that I would like to develop a session-less shopping cart through the use of web services and classes. Well, I changed my mind a bit because I am not sure if AJAX can maintain state. Can it? How will AJAX retain state? I’m not sure yet, so sessions it [...]
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What is the idea behind unobtrusive JavaScript? What makes JavaScript unobtrusive? Does it mean removing any onlclick events in your markup and handling those click events with an approach as provided with jQuery? With jQuery its very (extremely) easy to traverse between DOM elements and its even easier associating events to elements and executing them. [...]
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The economic meltdown seems to be hitting South Africa as well. If you think about the trouble General Motors are going through in the USA and how that trouble will spill over to South Africa. I wonder how that impacts web developers or IT professionals?
I have never used handlers (.ashx) files in any of my .NET web development projects, but this all changed in the last two days. The way I understand a handler is that it acts as a ‘process’ handler and does not write any output to the browser. Where would you use this? Well I used [...]
ASP.NET has a server control called a panel, which allows you to display other server controls or HTML elements inside it, and one of its properties is DefaultButton. By setting the DefaultButton to the ID of a button within the panel you basically set its default keyboard event that will fire the click event associated [...]
Have you ever seen the using statements at the top of your C# source files and wondered how exactly these work? I sometimes simply type them because I understand which classes I need, but if you look at the way a C# class source code is structured it is fairly easy to understand. So lets [...]
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WordPress runs on PHP, and PHP runs on Apache, this blog uses PHP and Apache to serve up content, and .NET doesn’t. So whats the point then? Well, for all intents and purposes I have a technology that can be used to develop and maintain large commercial websites without having to change to a .NET [...]
What does it take to host Silverlight content on a site? Why would I want to publish Silverlight content on my website? Well, to host Silverlight content on a website that runs Apache is not the same as running .NET content on IIS. Its kinda obvious that .NET content cannot and will not run under [...]
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