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Book Review: Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Design
I have finally finished reading Jacob J. Sanford's book Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Design: CSS, Themes, and Master Pages. This is one of several books I've bought on ASP.NET 2.0 to deepen my expertise. Now we've moved on to ASP.NET 3.5 before I've mastered ASP.NET 2.0. I expected this book to be full of design ideas for web controls, themes, and skins but instead it leaves much of the creativity up to you and only covers the aspects of ASP.NET 2.0 that apply to design. However I did learn a lot by reading this book.
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New Years Resolution - Get Better At Web Application Design
My New Years resolution for a career goal is to spend more time picking up graphic design tips and tricks. Conversely, I want to spend less time on researching programming and web application development. This may seem like an unwise goal for a web developer but I feel that I need more improvement in this area.
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JSON And Cross Domain XML Requests
After finding a way to read RSS feeds in a custom help collection web page without cross domain restrictions, see previous blog post, I naturally wanted to do the same thing with XML feeds. You could probably figure that out for yourself given the RSS example but I hate it when I find sample code that does not quite do what I need. There were also some annoyances with my previous solution and I have some improvements.
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The Web Developer Career
I don't see the independent web developer's viewpoint expressed in the ASP.NET community. Most of the blog posts concern highly technical aspects of architecture, testing, advanced language features, etc. I would guess that the community is primarily made of up Microsoft employees involved in advancing the ASP.NET platform, technology writers specializing in ASP.NET, and consultants like MVPs. This makes http://weblogs.asp.net a good place to keep up with the state of the technology but every community can benefit from a variety of viewpoints.
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JavaScript Object Notation For Cross Domain Web Requests
In attempting to use the Microsoft AJAX Library 1.0 in a MSHelp2 collection (to be viewed in the Microsoft Document Explorer) I ran into the same origin policy (SOP) restrictions on the XMLHttpRequest object. I cannot make web service data requests to another server from a page in compiled help without getting a JavaScript error message: "Access is denied".
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Book Review: Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials
by Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea
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ASP.NET Code To Query FTP Logs Using Log Parser 2.2
I have a project where a shopping cart is using file upload web controls to allow customers to upload image files. This is not working out so well because the image files can be huge. I think the session is timing out before the file uploads and the web application may be recycling because the ASP.NET worker process exceeds its maximum memory allowance with those huge image files. Well that is my theory. I've recommended using FTP to make the file uploads less taxing on the web application. If an image file is uploaded via FTP then I will need to get some information from the FTP logs. I was unable to find any sample code for parsing FTP log files using ASP.NET.
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A Day In The Life Of An ASP.NET Developer
I've been busy all day long and it is sometimes interesting to read about a day in the life of a professional. I learned a lot of new things today in the course of my work. Since it was the end of the month, I totaled up my hours and sent a client an invoice. I should probably do something to make this less of a chore. Preparing an invoice means copying all my activities from a list I keep in a notebook into a table in a web page. Then I have to add up the hours which aren't totaled automatically in a web page. We used a Quickbooks Timer in my old job but it was a funky DOS application that kept crashing.