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2009
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jQuery hoverImage plugin
At the project I’m currently reviewing they’ve used a lot of hover effects for images and links containing images. You can use CSS’s :hover for it, but that means you’ll have to add a new CSS line for each hover image and that it doesn’t work in IE6 for images. So they’ve decided to use a different approach. On all these images that needed a swap effect, they’ve added some JavaScript in the “onmouseover” and “onmouseout” and that’s something I wasn’t pleased with cause it was all cluttering the html, it asked for typo’s and they were registering handlers on the wrong events(they should have used "onmouseenter" and "onmouseleave"). And then I noticed they have jQuery registered on that same page.
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Certifications
In one way or another I keep stumbling on threads / discussion on certifications. Whether or not certifications are useful, or whether a certification means you’re skilled. Here’s my ten cents on the subject.
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How to make a Linq to Sql query twice as fast…
An important action with every LinqToSql query is to transform your lambda’s into T-SQL. In simple queries this can take half of the time. By compiling the query you can cache the result of this transformation which saves a lot of processing time on each succeeding query.
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Deadly Poison of Lazy Loading and not following Design Guidelines
Sometimes I perform a code review and at first glance everything looks fine, but - while I’m digging my way in - I slowly start to encounter some ‘hidden features’. This post is all about the dangers of lazy loading and not following some of the design guidelines.