February 2009 - Posts

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Lock your web app to 1 outgoing web service call across all threads by joelvarty

One of the things we see a lot of these days are web apps that call other web apps via web services, RSS, or REST APIs. I do this all the time, and often cache the response of the request (especially RSS and stuff like that) so that my high-traffic site...
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Put code in your blog with Windows Live Writer by joelvarty

This plugin for windows live writer called "Insert Code", lets you do this: This rocks, cause it means those of us that are lazy and want to copy/paste code from blogs can continue to be lazy. It also means searches on code will work better...
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JQuery - get a handle on a server element in javascript without using <%= elem.ClientID %> by joelvarty

One of the things I see  a lot of is code that looks like this: < asp:CheckBox ID ="chkEnable" Text ="My Checkbox" runat ="server" /> < script type ="text/javascript" > var chkEnable = $get( "<...
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VS Docs for jQuery 1.3.1 by joelvarty

I am using jQuery for everything these days - it really is an awesome add-on to any web application, and what even better is that you can get intellisense on it for the latest version.   Makes it easy to get stuff like this showing up when you are...
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VS 2010 and deployments through IIS - MSDeploy here we come by joelvarty

I saw this posting on the webdevtools blog and was intrigued by its promise. Deploying apps across multiple environments really sucks with IIS, especially when you have specialized setting for different servers in a web farm, or you have multiple people...
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