Today I did what I should have done a lot while ago. I watched the Jedi Coding Demo and installed JetBrain’s ReSharper – The Most Intelligent Add-In To Visual Studio about 30 seconds later. Finally… After launching VS2008, R# 4.0 Beta asked me a couple configuration-preference-type questions and then I completely stomped on my code until [...]
I ran into a strange case this evening. Rendered text can not be copied to the clipboard after posting back a page containing an UpdatePanel. Here’s a simple use case: User enters client name and clicks button to request phone number. Page posts back and displays phone number. User selects the phone number, CTRL+C and [...]
I woke up this morning (whew) wondering what percentage of the development community is privileged enough to deploy their own stuff. I wonder because I think I’m out of touch in this area. Over the past 6 or so years I’ve been handing off installation/deployment duties to other groups. My development teams and I were [...]
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Today I woke up feeling uneasy about the direction of my current project. For all intents and purposes, I am taking an existing system which was pieced together by a couple of past developers and extending it. I’m not saying the code I inherited was a disaster but I am not going to publicly praise [...]
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Originally built as an extension of YUI, Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich Internet applications (RIA) using techniques such as AJAX, DHTML and DOM scripting. A co-worker recently showed off a small sampling of what he’s done with Ext JS. Very simply, the framework blew my socks off. If, like me, [...]
Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers with a super easy way to extract hard coded strings from your code into resource files. I won’t say this tool has saved me days of time but has certainly saved me hours (especially on those hand-me-down projects which tend to require a good amount of clean up. ) You’ll [...]
I used to get random emails asking when Johnny Coder was going to start blogging again. Well, I guess I knew I had been away too long when people stopped asking me where I was… Over the past few months, I shifted directions. I left a 60+ hour/week lead/management consulting gig and have since taken [...]