Ben Griswold on December 18th, 2008

jTemplates is a jQuery plugin and template engine for Javascript.  If you keep up with Dave Ward and/or Rick Strahl you may already be familiar with jTemplates as they have both highlighted the plugin on their respective bolgs.  About 1.5 months ago, however, I got into the action and started using jTemplates in conjunction with [...]

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Ben Griswold on May 25th, 2008

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 attempted to CTRL+V into [...]

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Ben Griswold on May 20th, 2008

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, [...]

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