July 2003 - Posts
Frans for one time I disagree with you, not on everything but Web projects.
If like me, you embed some HTML in your code, it's nice to be able to change a badly formed tag or a single hexadecimal color value without the pain to stop the Debugger and restart again.
Try to consider the amount of wasting time just doing Start and Stop debugging.
I agree with you that the developer has to think.
I watched this morning the Whidbey demo on video, and I like the idea that the IDE will show me the line where the error come, edit and continue.
So many times, exception of you own logical errors, errors messages thrown by .Net could be very obscure, and often not related to the exact problem.
As an example, I remember yesterday that my code, working smoothly on my development machine, constantly beak on my production server.
The error messages, the trace didn't give me enough information on the real problem.
And finally I discovered that it was a stupid thing regarding the rights access on a folder.
Rather than giving me the exact issue, VS was just saying something else (don't remember exactly what was the message !).
With Edit and Continue, I would surely impove my productivity, testing different options to solve my issue.
For the Web development, we are, as developers, pushed more and more to embed some templates elements in the code behind.
Fine, but if I test something, and I just want to try a new value, with E&C I don't waste time.
And if I am not happy back to the start.
I am a VB developer, but I write also some code in C#, and I am sad that MS don't implement this feature in every language.
How can you have something better than a good demo of Whidbey before the week-end.
OK the video quality and sound are not top, but it give you a good idea, and it's now so exciting !
I like the bug that you have almost at the end of the demo. Well they didn't used Edit 'Cut' and contyinue at least on this video.
Hey Roy, cheaper than PDC isn't it ? :-)
Thanks Julia
I know that some people (Isaac for example) are waiting for the admin part of my Quiz tool.
It's quite complex to build the management page, because I built the Quiz using a single table, so I had to simulate some Master Details data using some nested Datalists.
And believe me, it's tough challenge to keep everything between each postback !
So I am very close to finish it. Some debugging, some UI changes, and I hope to release it very soon :-)
For the moment, just some pictures !
How amazing is Office 2003 !
I just discover today that Visio 2003 is better and better.
It's not anymore only for organisation charts and technical drawings.
It's also a fantastic Sitemap tool. It is very handy to have a nice dynamic sitemap of a website.
Try it, it worth it !
It's so easy, the wizard ask you for a URL, and voila !
On the image below, you can see haow it works remarkably well.
For example I detected some missing images (the Red Cross :-)) in a deep level that I will not be able to see using VS.
Right click on any node and you can again continue the links or change some setup.
By the way I realize I forget to say thank you to the good people who help me about this post.
A community is good only by the value of their members :-)
Thanks
OK I think I would like some help on this one.
If you have a minute to look at this site Scoilnet, for example the Primary Teachers section, I have a Resource Finder box on the top left column.
This is working fine, 3 dropdown menus. When you call something from the first menu, I create the second one depending on the items of the first one. You are still follow me :-)
Great, so I do the same with the third menu, and I have at this stage a Go button to finally show you the resources selected on another page.
My issue here, and surely you can guess if you do the above steps, is the refresh process between each postback.
So what I am trying to do is to optimize the postback. I tried some Cache, but the number of items in each dropdown could change very often.
And a user could also select many different options, so how I am suppose to cache 3 dropdown ?
Of course, I could build 'statically' some Javascript arrays, but imagine the ugly effects regarding the maintenance.
The SmartNavigation option crash for this page ( surely too complex), in case somebody think about this stuff.
I am still looking for some opinions on this, so feel free to comment
I received some comments about the post Webservices: hype or not hype ?
I think James Snell deserve the gold mention in poetry :-)
Actually, namespaces are the saving grace here because they work both ways... there's absolutely nothing stopping you or the companies on the receiving end of this stuff to come up with their own. The key issue here is FUD... everyone claiming their own fertilizer smells better than everyone else's when what really matters is that the crop needs food regardless of how bad it smells.
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I don't know whats going on in my ISP, Pars Online. But as far as I can see, I can't keep my contract with them anymore and will change my ISP within next month. Now, why Internet.com is my new forecast of being blocked? Simply, SearchEngineWatch.com, part of Internet.com, The Internet & IT Network, has been blocked and I can't read a very very good article about Google. Hmmm, you think what should I do?
Source: Tech Guru - Ali Parvaresh
My name is Ali Parvaresh.I live in Tehran,Iran.I am student of mathematics.
Jim Byrne has an interesting collection of articles on the subject:
Those are the recent ones:
Current notes: How to make non-text elements accessible - some notes by Jim Byrne (1st May 2003)
Accessible web text - sizing up the issues., in part 2 of this introduction to accessible web text explores the tricky issue of size. An article by Jim Byrne. (18th March 2003)
Making Websites Accessible, is a non-technical guide to planning, building and maintaining an accessible website, by Jim Byrne. (13th Feb. 2003).
Understanding web typography - an introduction by Jim Byrne (28th November 2002).
Sarah Smith introduces the new Making Websites Accessible guide published The Scottish Accessible Information Forum. (10th Dec. 2002)
The W3C Accessibility Guidelines: developing an approach by Jim Byrne and Pat Byrne. (11th October 2002).
What is an accessible website? If we know what an accessible website is, we have a better chance of building one. An article by Jim Byrne and Pat Byrne (23rd September 2002.)
Internet Glossary of Terms by Pat Byrne. (13th August 2002).
Accessibility of PDF documents -some notes, by Jim Byrne. (12th Aug. 2002)
Accessibility and frames - some notes by Jim Byrne. (24th July 2002).
HTML - looking down at it from a very great height.: short notes on understand HTML. Written by Jim Byrne. (11th June 2002)
CSS accessibility problems: is markup dead?: Why it is a bad idea to use cascading style sheets to mimic the effects of proper HTML markup. An article by Jim Byrne. (14th May 2002)
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