If you guys haven’t seen this terrific jQuery Watermark Plugin go check it out over here. I just installed it today and found a nice way to watermark all my input boxes by a neat jQuery .each() trick. If you’ve used this plugin but got a bit annoyed having to invoke the watermark and set [...]
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No doubt you’re aware of the Microsoft MIX ’09 Developers and Designers Conference happening in Las Vegas right now and are busy rummaging around on visitmix.com to download all the session videos. Well alas, Mike Swanson has been kind enough to produce a complete list of the video sessions from MIX in an easy to [...]
I’ve been working with TeamCity and NAnt build scripts a lot lately, and as a result I’ve found myself in and out of cmd.exe and one of my text editors of choice a lot lately. So based on all this usage, I wanted to gear up my environment for maximum productivity, so the very first [...]
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As another follow up to personalising Visual Studio (I covered theming the VS IDE with the Visual Studio Desert Nights Theme not too long back), I’d like to offer the settings I run on a dual monitor setup for Visual Studio to, I believe enhance productivity and gives you easier access to common tasks. You [...]
Hi all, Updated 30-Apr-10: Now with ReSharper 5+ custom color support, various [bug?] fixes and a new VS 2010 color codes! We’ve arrived at the weekend once again, horray! However, if you are anything like me, work (or play, depends on what code you’re wrestling with at the moment) doesn’t finish at the weekend – [...]
I don’t have a lot of time to blog about this, and it is something I wanted to blog about weeks ago, so while I have the links on hand, here are the links I used to move away from ASP.NET MVC’s built in Ajax methods utilising the Microsoft Ajax JavaScript library (you know, your [...]
In the last article I discussed mainly JavaScript minification & packing, but I felt this should be split into two parts as I discuss a little more in regards to HTTP comperssion and GZipping. HTTP compression ([1],[2]) comes into play when a client requests content from a web server, such as an image or a [...]
Hi Ya’ll, Yep three posts bam smack near each other. In this one I just wish to be quick and give you some great resources for packing, minifying and GZipping your JavaScript files (I have to stop simply buffing out this post by simply reciting the heading, lol.) compressing your JavaScript files which obviously results [...]
Below is a real good reason to compile a well-formed JSON data structure if you are about to send data through ajax with jquery, as sometimes (like today of course) you can receive undesirable and unexpected results if you take the cheap and nasty option of a simple serialised data string. I thought this is [...]