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What is your coding environment
Often neglected is the importance of your physical surroundings when you code, yet I think your environment can have more of an impact on your productivity than a fully tooled IDE. Do you like the lights full glare, half, or off altogether? Do you hate it when the office is cold? Do you use a space heater? Does your chair recline? Is your keyboard the natural type or are you standard layout junkie? Do you absolutely have to have dual monitors? Do you listen to music while you code? What kind?
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ASP.NET Ajax Beta: AutoCompleteBehavior without a Web Service
A lifetime ago, and several Microsoft AJAX releases ago, I extended the built-in AutoCompleteBehavior and AutoCompleteExtender, enabling it to gather its list of completion items via a callback to the page rather than a web service. Well it seems like I hit a nerve with it, because it became pretty popular!
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Dealing with IE "Operation Aborted". Or, how to Crash IE
It's easy to create runtime errors in JavaScript. But it's not every day you find a way to crash the runtime entirely.