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Conference schedule for next week in France
I'll be in France next week for a series of conferences.
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Visual Studio Express editions is now free (forever)
It's official: Visual Studio Express editions are now free to download and use indefinitely. That means that Visual Web Developer 2005 Express, Visual C# 2005 Express, Visual Basic 2005 Express, Visual C++ 2005 Express and Visual J# 2005 Express are completely free.
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Did you mean: hgdgf?
I was testing the network connection on my laptop a few minutes ago and typed some random characters in Google (hgjhgk), just scrambling fingers on the keyboard. To my surprise, I got ten pages of results (of which this post will soon be part):
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XmlHttpRequest now a W3C standard
Contrary to what I said in my previous post, XmlHttp is now a W3C standard (draft):
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Let me explain one more time why the Atlas compatibility layer works this way...
It's the second time in just a few days that I see blog comments attack Atlas on its compatibility layer. I've tried to explain a few days ago why we made this design choice but I think it deserves an even more detailed explanation...
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An Atlas TabStrip control based on the Accordion control
I love that. Kwang Suh sent me this new control he built a few days ago. From his own words:
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Check out the new "Atlas" Control Toolkit
Shawn and his team just released a set of Atlas controls that you might want to check out. It contains some useful controls and extenders such as TextBoxWatermark or ToggleButton (I really like how this one is implemented because it's really using an HTML checkbox despite appearances which is the right semantics and makes it really transparent to use). The controls come with full source code that the license enables you to modify and use as you wish.
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Atlas compatibility layer: why did we extend Firefox to implement IE-isms?
Microsoft does not enjoy the best reputation when it comes to respecting standards. So when seeing that Atlas has a compatibility layer that extends Firefox and Safari APIs to implement IE-isms, some have seen it as an attempt to discard the standard.
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Mix06 demo part 2: building the accordion control
In the previous post, I've shown how to use the accordion control. Today, I'm going to explain how to build such a control. I'll try to give as much background as possible on the different patterns in this sample control. This article is going to be fairly technical, so please keep in mind that you don't need to know any of this to use the control. This post is mainly for people who want to build their own Atlas client-side controls.
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Gaming 2.0
Think what you want about Web 2.0, it is an unescapable change in the way the web will grow in the future. It is the convergence of several emerging ideas and technologies that individually wouldn't mean as much but that taken together make a real difference. These ideas are (paraphrasing Wikipedia and isolating the technical points from the business ones):