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Solving Confusing Browser Security Prompts with Protocol-Relative Hyperlinks

If you’ve ever been in the situation where you’re visiting a site where some of the content is delivered via http, and some via https, you may have seen the following security dialog (this is the IE version, but Firefox has a similar dialog): It’s not Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:04 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Events This Week – Tech-Ed 2009 Edition (May 11th, 2009)

As you might be able to guess from the title, I’m at Tech-Ed 2009 this week in sunny (well, actually somewhat cloudy) Los Angeles, CA. If you weren’t able to make it in person, you can still catch a number of sessions online, and of course you can follow Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 11:28 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Events This Week – May 4th, 2009

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area (plus online events you can view from anywhere)…this list now includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Read More...
Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 10:28 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Silverlight Animation Tip

I mentioned in my previous post that I’m working on a cool application (will be revealed in less than 2 weeks) that’s finally giving me the opportunity to spend some quality time with Silverlight 2. In addition to the aforementioned web service interaction, Read More...
Posted Friday, May 01, 2009 9:07 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Gotchas for Web Services in Silverlight

Recently, I’ve been working on a Silverlight application that grabs some data via web services, and up until the last day or so, those services were on a different domain, and the service domain had a clientaccesspolicy.xml file in place allowing access Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:10 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

More on IE 7 Compatibility Mode

I’ve mentioned a couple of workarounds for a specific issue with the ASP.NET Menu control in Internet Explorer 8 in past posts . This one’s a little more general, in terms of how you can set the IE 7 compatible mode for specific pages on your site, or Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:00 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Events This Week – February 23rd, 2009

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area…this list now includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also now automatically synced Read More...
Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 9:02 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

New Windows 7 Blog Series

Denny Boynton , a fellow Microsoft Evangelist, has started a new blog series on Windows 7 that looks interesting, starting with a post on locking down which apps can be installed on your PC : I’ve been running Windows 7 Beta on all of my machines, work Read More...
Posted Friday, February 20, 2009 3:18 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Events This Week – February 17th, 2009

A day late this week, but here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area…this list now includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:08 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Managing SSL Transitions

While getting ready to roll out some new functionality for Community Megaphone , I decided to go ahead and add an SSL cert to the site to support SSL encryption of credentials used by event approvers and other site features. Although it had been almost Read More...
Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 9:03 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

The 0 Dark 30 Experiment – A Month In

I mentioned in a previous post that I’d been getting up earlier lately, as an experiment to see what being an early bird could do for this former night owl. I’m about a month into the experiment, and the results are quite promising. I have: been getting Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:13 AM by gduthie | 2 Comments

Drag and Drop in Silverlight 2

Shawn Wildermuth has posted a nice simple example of drag and drop in Silverlight 2. If you’ve been intimidated by drag and drop, Shawn’s example will show you how easy it can be. I've been trolling the Silverlight .NET forums again and there seems to Read More...
Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 5:08 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Transparent PNGs in IE6 (and 5.5)

Wanted to pass along a couple of useful links found via Steve Andrews on twitter , each deals with the topic of making transparency in PNGs, something that isn’t supported by default with IE 6, work via a couple of hacks. Solution 1 , which has been out Read More...
Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 12:03 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Shrink Your HTML and JavaScript Using Microsoft Expression Web

Great tip from Jason Gaylord : I don’t get an opportunity to use Microsoft Expression Web that often, but when I do, I always discover new features. I was looking for a way to compress HTML and JavaScript files that I was generating for one of our affiliations. Read More...
Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 9:01 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Using jQuery to Fix Browser Issues

Anyone who’s used CSS more than just a little knows that there are many CSS tricks and techniques that look great in one browser, but look terrible (or simply don’t work) in another. One cool way to get around this is to use jQuery (and jQuery plug-ins) Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:03 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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