Ben Griswold on February 18th, 2009

Though the ability to debug Javascript in Visual Studio is great, perhaps you’ve noticed this feature can grind your development/debugging to a near halt.  Well, here’s what you need to do if you wish to be productive again.

Enable the following IE setting and you too can save yourself hours of debugging time:
IE  > Tools [...]

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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 December 11th, 2008

I read a bit of “jQuery in Action” a couple of weeks back.  Actually all I read was the appendix which is aptly titled “JavaScript that you need to know but might not!”  This short chapter very concisely covers JavaScript concepts which should be required learning for all web developers. 
If you are an experienced JavaScript [...]

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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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