Like many web developers before me, I've become a conscripted webservant in my wife's quest to launch a website - Rachel's setting up a store for high end children's clothing. She's got an incredible eye for design, which makes her one of the toughest clients I've had. When her sister viewed the site...

Keynote Session The highlight was the discussion between Tim O'Reilly and Bill Gates. This was unscripted, casual, and really interesting to watch. Some quotes and themes: Tim commented about Navtek being the real force behind Google maps and many other mapping systems. Bill said that a community based...

The admin dropdown menus in our DNN 3.1.1 sites haven't been working in FireFox - they show up in the upper left hand corner of the screen (absolutely positioned at 0,0). A javascript change (in spmenu.js) fixed it for us. I'm not sure if this somehow works for everyone else, or if DNN people don't use...

I frequently use method overloading a lot in my C# code to allow optional parameters, so when I wanted to implement a simple popup function with optional support for virtual root and website based on the url, here's what I came up with: function showPopUp( virtual , url, height, width) { if (location...

Bill Pierce created an ASP.NET Server Control wrapper for the Google Maps API . He's posted the first of three articles on Code Project : Lat Lays Flat - Part 1 : A Google Maps .Net Control Demos here The demos won't knock your socks off if you're expecting a new Google Map Hack . This wrapper makes...

Darren points to a cool article from Adaptive Path that gives a new term for the cool apps Google has been building lately: Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XML). Sure, XMLHTTP async calls are something web developers have been doing for a while, but Google's "iPodded it" [1] . I'm looking forward to...

Scott's article An Easier Way to Highlight the Rows of a DataGrid on MouseOver included a link to an old ALA article on the Suckerfish Dropdown [updated] - see the improved Son of Suckerfish Dropdown ! What I like about it: CSS only approach for browsers with good CSS support. There's a small Javascript...

In case you missed it, Milan of ASP.NET Resources ran a cool series on redesigning the front page of Microsoft.com with an eye towards Web Standards (CSS, ECMAScript, XHTML, DOM). His assessment on the final artical explains the point of standards compliance isn't standards compliance; it's bandwidth...

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About DotNetKicks DotNetKicks is a nice social bookmarking system (like Digg, Reddit, etc.) that's specific to .NET development issues. Users submit cool links, other users vote on it, popular links show up the front page and in an RSS feed. It lets you know what's going on in the .NET world right away...