The best gift under the tree this year? A Sony Blu-ray Disc player:
The BDP-N460 allows you to instantly stream thousands of movies, videos and music from the largest selection of leading content providers including Netflix, Amazon Video On Demand, YouTube™, Slacker® Radio and many, many more. Plus, enjoy the ultimate in high-definition entertainment and watch [...]
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Last Wednesday, I took a whopping 15 minutes out of my day and added ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) to my ASP.NET MVC application. If you haven’t heard the news (I hadn’t until recently), ELMAH does a killer job of logging and reporting nearly all unhandled exceptions. As for handled exceptions, I’ve been using [...]
I was just speaking with a coworker about the tool I used to mockup screens in a recent requirements document. If you aren’t familiar with Balsamiq Mockups, you are missing out. Maybe you are responsible for application UI design or you simply like to sketch out your screens before you develop them? If so, take [...]
I read through Jeffrey Richter’s CLR via C# not too long ago. This evening I cracked it open again and jotted down a few notes on what I personally took away from the book. Of course, if I spent the time to write down everything I learned, I might still be busy writing. I’ve thrown [...]
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FlexBox is a jQuery plugin that is intended to be a very flexible replacement for HTML textboxes and dropdowns using AJAX to retrieve and bind JSON data.
Okay. Now what is FlexBox exactly?
It is a dynamic control which can present itself as a combobox with per-result HTML templates, a suggest box (like Google search) or [...]
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 [...]
I’ve recommended .NET podcasts before and it’s time to add a new show to the mix. This past weekend, I started consuming the backlog of The Thirsty Developer podcast in large quantities and I like it. I found the majority of the shows to be well-structured, high production quality, informative and entertaining. But I’ll let [...]
Last Friday, a fellow coder asked the team for podcast recommendations. Since I listen to anywhere from 6-10 podcasts a week, I was happy to share what is currently in my top podcast rotation.
It is worth noting that those of us in the .NET community are rather fortunate as there are a number of recent [...]