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• Book Review: "Ajax in Action"

  Let me first preface this review by saying this is the first technical book that I've read cover to cover TWICE prior to posting a review. I had to make sure the stuff stuck, because the material covered in Manning's very excellent "Ajax in Action" is... Posted Nov 16 2005, 02:00 PM by guam-aspdev with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tech books, Programming, Ajax

• Accessing Word documents programmatically with an ASP.NET web form

  I'm trying to incorporate a new feature into my company's CMS that doesn't require population of form fields in a web page. Basically, the system will read a DOC/RTF file from a directory and programmatically extract data to be inserted into a database... Posted Oct 09 2005, 07:06 PM by guam-aspdev with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Programming

• The personal portal battle: Google's personalized homepage vs. Start.com

  I've been objectively playing with and testing the personalizable portal concepts from Google and Microsoft a lot over the last week, and I'm not alone ( Ben Askins , Eric Hammersley , and Adrian Sutton have a few of the better blogged tests). I've been... Posted Oct 07 2005, 08:22 AM by guam-aspdev with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Web, Google

• CommunityWalk: cool new integrated-mapping-mash-up-service-thingy

  I discovered and have been heavily messing around with CommunityWalk , a very slick web-based mapping service, which allows for all sorts of app mashups, including adding Flickr image galleries to locales. It's got a pretty sizable amount of submissions... Posted Sep 29 2005, 03:16 PM by guam-aspdev with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Web, Google

• Using .NET's Cache API defensively to guard against web service downtime

  I ran into a problem recently with information I'm importing into a large site I run from a remote provider via XML. The source unfortunately ran into some downtime, causing a user control on which I display the data to timeout, and therefore breaking... Posted Sep 29 2005, 10:28 AM by guam-aspdev with | with no comments Filed under: Programming

• Generating maps dynamically with Google Maps and ASP.NET 1.x

  I spent part of the weekend tapping the Google Maps API , developing a custom ASP.NET 1.x app that pinpoints some of the more memorable locations during my brief residency in Seattle ( see my sample here ). Bill Pierce created a .NET custom server control... Posted Sep 26 2005, 03:34 PM by guam-aspdev with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Google

• Neat little CSV with US/territorial zip & area codes

  Bill Bercik has a nice little Ajax programming tutorial in PHP for dynamically displaying city names and area codes after a user specifices a zip code. The key component of the downloadable source code is a CSV that contains nearly 42,800 zip codes and... Posted Sep 26 2005, 03:15 PM by guam-aspdev with | with no comments Filed under: Programming

• Manning publishes "what is Ajax?" screencast

  I got an e-mail from Manning Publications about a "screencast" (I'm not sure exactly what that is, but I'm guessing a series of screenshots set against narrated audio) for a "What is Ajax?" presentation. It's 4 minutes long, so it'll be a nice break while... Posted Sep 24 2005, 09:54 AM by guam-aspdev with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Tech books, Programming, Ajax

• Having multiple tabbed start pages in Firefox

  One thing that I love about using Firefox is being able to set an array of pipe-separated URLs to be used as independent start pages upon startup, via that browser's multi-tabbed UI. I'm the type of guy that prefers using web-based apps, so I typically... Posted Sep 14 2005, 05:02 PM by guam-aspdev with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Web

• How bad would you be willing to change your development skill set to get a good job?

  When considering a job in software development at a new company, one of the first things I look for is what platform the company uses. Oftentimes this is THE deciding factor in whether I'll pursue the job or not (and vice-versa). I don't do anything in... Posted Sep 06 2005, 03:42 PM by guam-aspdev with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Human stupidity