Well over a year ago I posted an article describing how to employ an asynchrony concept known as a Promise . Since then a number of implementations of Promises have shown up in libraries such as jQuery Deferred and CommonJS . I’ve updated the sources and removed the dependency on ASP.NET Ajax,...

[Note: A new version of Promise.js is available here . It has a less restrictive license and additional functionality. Please be sure to check it out. ] A Promise is a programming model that deals with deferred results in concurrent programming. The basic idea around promises are that rather than...

I've been working on some bugs in the Calendar extender from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and have been resolving some of the focus/blur events. I've been trying to make the calendar work consistently across all of the browsers and found some frustrating differences in event firing order between...

Finally back on the blogging scene. A lot has happened in the last 6 months and now that things are settling down I finally have a chance to start putting some content on my blog. First, a little about me. My name is Ron Buckton and I am a Senior Consultant for Microsoft Services in the Federal District...