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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:21 PM

MyXaml

Just came across this nice open source tool called MyXaml ( dev blog ), which offers declarative markup (XUL-like) capabilities to .NET 1.1 and 2.0, and ASP.NET applications. The website includes the product download (open source), documentation and articles...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:04 PM

Redesigning Microsoft.com - with CSS, without tables

Redesigning Microsoft.com - with CSS, without tables . A 62% file size reduction anticipated! "If multiplied out by my measly 1 million page views estimate, that 25 KB savings comes to about 23.8 GB in bandwidth savings per day, or 8.5 terabytes per year...
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Friday, January 30, 2004 3:36 PM

Signal-to-Noise #6

Sample chapters ( Part 1 and Part 2 ) from O'Reilly's ADO.NET Cookbook Ted Neward shares his thoughts on the talk Joel Spolsky gave on "Designing Applications With The User in Mind" at UCDavis Microsoft Interview Questions by Chris Sells. [via Jason Salas...
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Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:47 PM

Signal-to-Noise #2

The Republic Day (Mon, 26th Jan) is near while the odd rains in and around New Delhi will hopefully not confine people indoors during this long weekend. To me, the most amazing sight in the city this time of the year is the evening view of the Rashtrapati...
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Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:56 PM

Tabbing in a TextArea/TextBox

Tabbing in a TextArea or a TextBox has been a distant feature to think of up until now, as Justin Lovell shares a simple JavaScript (IE 5+ only) which makes it possible to insert a tab via the keyboard into a TextArea or a TextBox. Here's the article...
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Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:31 PM

Modal WebForms

Brendan Tompkins shares his approach (called Sticky Draggable Divs or SDDs ) on creating Modal WebForms in ASP.NET. Although I personally don't like the idea of using excessive JavaScript and DHTML in project implementations except for some basic validation...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:38 PM

Craftsmanship

Joel Spolsky has a very interesting new article on (Software) Craftsmanship where he rightly points-out -- “Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship (though it can be), it's design.” Also, Amit Kalani has written some...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:20 PM

Web Server Usage Survey and Comparator

Port80 Surveys the Top 1000 Corporations' Web Servers versus Netcraft Web Server Survey . So who's winning? Vasanth Dharmaraj presents Comparator - a slick tool (written in .NET, source code available) to preview a web site in IE and Mozilla at the same...
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Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:12 PM

Software QA/Testing and UltraGird for Avalon

Rob Davis has put together an extensive and very insightful Glossary and Technical FAQs section on Software QA/Testing . [via Siva Rama Krishna ] Today, I also came across this control (for Avalon) called UltraGrid . UltraGrid for Avalon is a functional...
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Saturday, November 22, 2003 9:13 PM

PDC Content and Multi-direction Treeview Control

FYI, the entire audio/visual content from PDC 2003 is available online (via Microsoft). Also, Sean Gerety has an interesting idea for a multi-direction treeview control (mockup below):
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