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Scott Guthrie presents at NDDNUG
Scott gave a whirlwind presentation to a standing room only crowd at the North Dallas Dot Net User Group tonight. A wide range of topics were covered from IDE tips and tricks to ASP.NET tips to MS AJAX to LINQ and DLINQ (I still like to call it DLINQ...
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (excitement builds)
I just downloaded beta 1 of ASP.NET AJAX today. Wow! Lots and lots of changes. The type system has been greatly simplified. I like this. The move to prototypes over closures was a good decision. The core scripts are much easier to read and comprehend...
A great article on functional programming...
http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html This article was a great overview of many of the aspects of functional programming. With what Micosoft is doing to the CLR and C# and VB it would seem that functional programming is making advances into the main...
Microsoft Product Name Generator
Lance and I were musing over some of the recent product renamings and it gave me the idea to throw together a product name generator. Here's my first stab at it: var pfx = new Array("", "Visual ", "Compact ", "Embedded ", "Expression "); var prd = new...
The Future of JavaScript.
http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-future-of-javascript-an-update-from-brendan-eich I'm a big fan of JavaScript. It's amazing how versatile it is. Just look at all the AJAX libs that have popped up (e.g. Atlas). It's good to see that there is some thought...
Posted: Feb 20 2006, 08:37 PM by findleyd
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Javascript libraries roundup
Here is a great list of javascript goodies for all you AJAX/Web 2.0 junkies: http://edevil.wordpress.com/2005/11/14/javascript-libraries-roundup/
Posted: Nov 15 2005, 07:27 AM by findleyd
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E4X! Where have you been all my life?
How in the heck did I miss this? After seeing a couple of blog posts here on weblogs.asp.net about E4X I went out and did a bit of googling . In case you missed the boat like I did here's the scoop: E4X is a set of extensions to java script that was standardized...
Posted: Nov 08 2005, 09:31 PM by findleyd | with 3 comment(s)
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Why JavaScript is one of the coolest languages around.
Every time I go back to coding any JavaScript I discover new things that I never knew were there. It's like the language that keeps on giving. :) For a great tour around the language check out this site: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/ JSON is a...
Posted: Jul 06 2005, 10:48 PM by findleyd | with 2 comment(s)
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