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I just made a post on my blog about moving from home hosted web applications to hosted web applications. I'm currently struggling on whether I want to move my photos from my home hosted, and customized verions of nGallery to something larger like Flickr. I'm curious what other people think is the best solution to problems like this. Would you rather home host something and do an okay job on setting it up, or have a group who has a lot more resources than you do it? Read More...
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Friends of Web Development Newsletter – May 2006 Conference News It’s conference season so here’s a summary of what we’re doing at several upcoming conferences. ReMix If you’re in the Southeast Asia area Matt Gibbs will be presenting a talk on “Atlas” at REMIX in Singapore on June 29. Web Design World Brad Abrams , a Group Program Manager in the UI Frameworks team, will be giving the keynote address at Web Design World in Seattle, on July 10-12 th . TechEd 2006 – Boston Do you ‘ Love that Dirty Water? ’ If you do, then make Boston your home June 11-16. The ASP.NET team and a few well-known experts will be presenting 14 sessions covering all of the major new features in ASP.NET 2.0 plus best practices and integration with other popular .NET services...
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I'm struggling with an interesting connumdrum right now. I take a lot of pictures. And I mean a lot of pictures, I've got 11,000+ digital photos, and more than 500 rolls of film that hasn't been scanned. I love to share my photos with my friends, and in the past I've always done that via my own home grown site. For many years, I wrote my own, or just manually created the HTML and put the pictures online. Then a few years ago, I came across nGallery. I love(d) nGallery. It solved almost all of my problems, gave me the features that I wanted, and was fairly powerful. Then, along comes Flickr. I played with it for a bit, and decided I didn't like the UI, either the admin side, or the front end. I like the idea of the photo flo, but the sets aren...
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Script# ... I might have inadvertently chosen an non-searchable name... Read More...
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ASP.NET 2.0 and VS 2005 add a bunch of features that make localizing ASP.NET applications much easier. To learn more about how the localization features work, I'd recommend first checking out this excellent 13 minute video in the ASP.NET 2.0 "How Do I?" video series . In it Scott Stansfield walks-through how to build and localize an ASP.NET application from scratch, and how to support both dynamically picking the language used based on the incoming user-agent string of the client, as well as allowing a user to explictly choose their language preference from a dropdownlist. I think you will walk away being surprised at how easy it is. Wei-Meng Lee has also written a great walkthrough article on ASP.NET 2.0 localization that you can read for free...
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One challange that web designers and developers often wrestle with is an annoying "image flicker" issue that sometimes shows up when using CSS image references. For example, when using a CSS rule like so: . someClassName { background : #AABBCC url(someBackGroundImage.gif) repeat-x ; } This can cause some browsers (including IE 6) to have an annoying flicker when rendering the image (especially when used with hover styles or for background images). In particular, this often shows up when building hierarchical and show/hide menus, and can degrade the UI experience for the site. There are two ways to fix the issue for clients: 1) Adjust your web-server's cache content settings for the static images being referenced from the CSS file. This unfortunately...
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Scott Mitchell continues to post great ASP.NET content (if you haven't subscribed to his blog then you should!). He has posted a nice new article detailing how to implement checkbox functionality within the ASP.NET 2.0 GridView, as well as add the common "Check All / Uncheck All" functionality to it. You can read the article here . Hope this helps, Scott Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More...
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David Hayden maintains a really great blog . He regularly posts about ADO.NET and Data Access, and is someone I'd highly recommend subscribing to. He posted a useful blog entry a few days ago that details how to use ADO.NET to read, insert and update data from an Excel spreadsheet. A useful read if you are looking to quickly export or import data and work with it interatively in Excel. Hope this helps, Scott Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More...
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O'Reilly is publishing my book on UpdatePanel. This is a short work (less than 60 pages) I did with Matt Gibbs that is scenario-focused and gives an in-depth look at the UpdatePanel control of ASP.NET "Atlas". The book is very reasonably priced at $9.99. Take your information from the source... Feedback welcome. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/atlasupc/ Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More...
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A few weeks ago I did an online (LiveMeeting) talk about the Toolkit. It finally got pushed out onto the download servers, so you can watch it here as a streaming video (WMV). Note the first few minutes the screen will be blank (you'll get audio). Don't worry, it's perfectly normal. I posted the slides & samples in a prior post . Read More...
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