Hot off the presses: jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 is released! This is the first alpha release of jQuery 1.4. The code is stable (passing all tests in all browsers we support), feature-complete (we’re no longer accepting new features for the release), and needs to be tested in live applications.
Get it here!
jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released
December 4, 2009 — rick schottjQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010
November 30, 2009 — rick schottIf you know me you know that jQuery is my favorite technology right now. If you thought it was easy to use already, I have a treat for you. Check out these jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 by John Sheehan to boost your jQuery productivity in Visual Studio 2010.
John also has a dedicated page to .NET Cheat Sheets I print and use all the time.
Project Euler – IProblemBase
November 28, 2009 — rick schottI have noticed people searching for my IProblemBase class. There is really nothing to it to be honest. I just have all my Problem[n] classes implement it so that my test harness can call them easily. What I really need to publish is my BigInt class that most of the solutions I do publish use. Sorry, it needs some polish so its going to be a while for that one.
IProblemBase
namespace Euler
{
public interface IProblemBase
{
string GetAnswer();
}
}
Program
namespace Euler
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
IProblemBase p = new Problem48();
string answer = p.GetAnswer();
//etc.....
}
}
}
Microsoft AJAX CDN
November 23, 2009 — rick schottMicrosoft Ajax Content Delivery Network
The Microsoft Ajax content delivery network (CDN) enables you to easily add ASP.NET Ajax Library and jQuery scripts to your Web applications. You can start using the ASP.NET Ajax Library or jQuery simply by adding a <script> tag to your page that points to Ajax.microsoft.com.
By taking advantage of the Microsoft Ajax CDN, you can significantly improve the performance of your Ajax applications. The contents of the Microsoft Ajax CDN are cached on servers located around the world. In addition, the Microsoft Ajax CDN enables browsers to reuse cached JavaScript files for Web sites that are located in different domains.
Scott Guthrie has a nice write up: Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN
jQuery selectors lab
October 28, 2009 — rick schottHere is a nice site for playing with jQuery selectors.
An open letter to micromanagers – Scott Berkun
October 7, 2009 — rick schottI love the truth, it hurts sometimes, but this blog post is nothing but the truth.
Owners of thoroughbreds never stop their horses during a race, every ten seconds, to remind the horse and jockey how to run, where the finish line is, or that it’d be a good idea to finish first. Why? It would slow them down. Only an idiot would do this.
If you’re a manager, you must assume you have thoroughbreds working for you. Your job is to give them what they need to win their respective races, agreeing with them on the goal and rewards, but then getting the hell out of the way. Until they start jumping fences or attacking other horses, you have to let them run their race.
The self governed community wiki is the next killer app
October 1, 2009 — rick schottWith the success of Stack Overflow we also now have Stack Exchange. The technology driving these sites is nothing ground breaking. Lots of people make nice usable websites on the same platform.
These guys have revolutionized the Wiki. The community concepts that drive this technology is indeed the next killer app in information technology. Its the first of its kind, and will be mimic for years to follow. The list of sites using this technology is growing daily and has no limits.
As you see in this post, I am linking to the most popular Wiki, Wikipedia.
Adobe crash report
September 30, 2009 — rick schottWow, I thought it was just my PC. I have had these same issues with CS4.
Some lessons to be learned here, maybe you shouldn’t forget how you became what you are.
This level of awesome doesn’t happen by accident or iteration or lucky lottery ticket. Each app’s a joy to use precisely because it’s built from scratch to solve certain problems real people have in a certain context — not to do everything for everyone and certainly not to fit into a “Suite” that was invented by some white-toothed Stanford grad who knows each app’s “Features & Benefits” bullets better than the needs of its battlefield users.
View the rest here.
Ten Common SQL Programming Mistakes
September 27, 2009 — rick schottFull article here.
It is not always easy to spot “antipatterns” in your SQL, especially in more complex queries. In this article, Plamen demonstrates some of the most common SQL coding errors that he encounters, explains their root cause, and illustrates potential solutions
- NULLs and the NOT IN predicate
- Functions on indexed columns in predicates
- Incorrect subquery column
- Data type mismatch in predicates
- Predicate evaluation order
- Outer joins and placement of predicates
- Subqueries that return more than one value
- Use of SELECT *
- Scalar user-defined functions
- Overuse of cursors
ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Web Development Beta 2 Overview
September 25, 2009 — rick schottWhitepaper on all the new things to come:
Many exciting changes for ASP.NET are coming in the .NET Framework version 4. This document gives an overview of many of the new features that are included in the upcoming Beta 2 release of the .NET Framework 4 and of Visual Studio 2010.
http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet40/
My favorites so far:
