ASP.NET Resources

September 2007

Book Review: The True Believer

If I had a bookshelf labeled “Books I should’ve read sooner”, The True Believer, an all-time classic by Eric Hoffer, would occupy a permanent spot. This book was first published in 1951 and brought him fame for the rest of his life.

9/28/2007 |

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Visual Studio Menu Quagmire

The menu you see below is from my Visual Studio Team System. It barely fits on my screen! I fear Visual Studio will follow the fate of Microsoft iPod (via YouTubistan).

9/27/2007 |

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Legacy XhtmlConformance Kills Partial Page Updates

I’m writing this knowing full well that someone, somewhere will bang his/her against the wall trying to decipher one of these JavaScript errors:

9/25/2007 |

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Absolute Positioning of Controls in VS 2008: Forget It Exists!

Mikhail Arkhipov has recently posted a tip how to drag a control in VS 2008 and have it absolutely positioned on a web page. Here’s my advice: forget this feature exists! Here’s why.

9/21/2007 |

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The Myth of Scrolling

There’s an old inaccurate belief that people don’t scroll web pages. However, there are good reasons to believe this urban myth simply isn’t true.

9/19/2007 |

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Keeping a Design Scrapbook

I came across a great advice by Andy Clarke in his book Transcending CSS:

9/16/2007 |

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Build DOM with the MS AJAX Toolkit Common Library

Building DOM elements by hand is mind numbingly boring. It’s more fun to watch paint dry. Traversing DOM is just as boring, which is what prompted my JQuery post.

9/5/2007 |

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Fun with Kinematic Typography

I’m really getting a kick out of what’s referred to by different people as kinematic typography, kinetic typography, typographical motion, typography animation, or simply animated text.

9/4/2007 |

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September 2007