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For full disclosure, Packt Publishing sent me a review copy of this book. They did not ask for a positive review, just a review. This is the first book by Jorge Ramon that I’ve read. This book is exactly what the title says that it is, a Cookbook. It’s
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When I was preparing for RIAPalooza, I created and blogged about Creating a Simple Silverlight Countdown Blog badge . It was great but I wanted to updated it for the next event and realized that recompiling it was not really a user friendly option. The
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I’ve come to realize that many web designers don’t understand what “Above the Fold” and how it really should be used. Above the Fold is an old print newspaper layout term for what’s on the top part of the page, the part that is displayed in the window
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Building on the success of the DreamSpark and BizSpark program that we launched about 11 months ago Microsoft is now launching the WebsiteSpark program. WebsiteSpark is designed for small web consultancies ranging in size from 1 to 10 people. With WebsiteSpark
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I’m going to be speaking at RIAPalooza in about two weeks, well more specifically at the time of this writing it’s 10 days, 12 hours, 48 minutes and 45 seconds. :) I’m going to be tag teaming with Mike Labriola again talking about “10 questions about
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I’m in conversation with a group that’s using Ext JS for their RIA. As I haven’t used it, I thought I’d go ask at the international water fountain that is twitter about it. Anyone using Ext JS? Thoughts compared to jQuery or Prototype/Scriptaculous?
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On the heels of the announcement by Michael Eaton, I thought I should post about how excited I am about the upcoming Kalamazoo X Conference… The Kalamazoo X conference, while being put on by the technical community, is a very different sort of conference.
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Like so many thing that we do in our daily development, there’s a high probability that someone has already solved the problem if you know where to look. This is just a collection of resources that I’ve found useful over time. Honestly, I’m posting these
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I ran across this article on ZDNet ( Wanted: ROI for internal app development ) that really worried me. My friends at PreEmptive Solutions ran a survey across a wide number of developers that included people from 21 different industry segments in
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Expression Blend, believe or not, has an add-in model. It’s highly unsupported but it exists. The unsupported nature of it means that you have to do a little Red Green style patching to get them to run in the first place and if they cause instability,
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I’m going to be polar plunging to raise money for the Special Olympics Michigan this coming weekend in Belleville. This is a charity that is special to me because of my youngest daughter, Maura, who has a lot of challenges of her own. One day, my hope
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I’m at an internal conference at Microsoft this week and one of the sessions that I attended was called Practical Design tips and tricks for Developers. It was a set of hands on labs that were created out of the Expression team. It was really slick and
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Over my last handful of posts, Building a Simple Photo Gallery in ASP.NET MVC Framework , Returning Thumbnails With the MVC Framework and Adding Lighbox.js to the Simple Photo Gallery I've built a simple photo gallery on the ASP.NET MVC framework. In
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In my previous two posts, Building a Simple Photo Gallery in ASP.NET MVC Framework and Returning Thumbnails With the MVC Framework , I built a simple photo gallery on the ASP.NET MVC framework. In this post we are going to start making this a little prettier.
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In my last post, we put together a quick and simple photo gallery . This post will be building on that. Depending on the size of your photo, however, it didn't have the worlds greatest user experience. I'll be playing with the CSS, JavaScript and a ton
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