Making a jQuery JSON Request to an ASP.NET Handler And Back(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 7 months ago

Recently I was working on a small project where we wanted to make requests to go get some data and pass it back via XML or JSON to a jQuery control. So I picked out a control that I thought would work (as it had hooks there for init, load, and other callback slots) and then thought ok, how the hell am I going do this. Having never really created my own or used any HttpHandler (.ashx) before, I found out that this would be the way to do this. read more...

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jQuery Link Repository(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 8 months ago

This list is fairly short initially however I plan on updating my list here in this post indefinitely as I find more of what I think are some of the best links out there. The intention here again is not to post every conceivable blog post, video, presentation, site..but ones I personally feel are the most useful. read more...

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jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 9 months ago

The jQuery tabs is a nice plugin. But depending on how creative your site is and how aesthetic it’s function needs to be, a lot of times you’re not going to use it as is because it simply looks like a “developer designed the tabs”. So, to pretty up the tabs, you can simply set the images and then when you click just change out the image to show an active image using jQuery selectors. Here’s how I did it: read more...

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Organize your Personal Resources - Just use a Wiki!(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 9 months ago

I don’t know about you but I got sick of adding favorites, printing articles, trying to remember certain tools I used, techniques in code, or whatever the case was. I’d manage this information by adding them to favorites, writing this down on paper, tossing it in the garbage because I can’t stand clutter and then wish I hadn’t, etc. The point? Other than your team’s Wiki (if you have one), just use a wiki for yourself to organize YOU at work and to keep a nice repository of information for the following items to keep your productivity up: read more...

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Getting up & Running Quickly w/ScrewTurn Wiki & SQL Server(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 9 months ago

The docs are “ok” at best so here are my quick instructions to help you understand quickly how to get ScrewTurn Wiki configured to use a SQL Server Database. Steps: read more...

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C# Regions are not Useful? Give me a Break(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 9 months ago

I often see arguments about use of regions in C# code. And this is one of the most annoying things I see on the Internet in my opinion when it pertains to code structure. Whoever says regions are not to be used, I’d love to see your code and know what standards you have established as a team with your code base. I bet you it’s a mess and the reason you don’t like regions is because the developers on your team has abused use of them and that there is no logical pattern or team standard established. read more...

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Piggyback on Derik Whittaker’s Post on Refactoring Project Structure(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 9 months ago

I agree 110% on my friend Derik Whittaker’s post about maintaining & refactoring project structure not just code structure and I’m sure many will agree but most do not put in to practice weekly on their teams. One reason I like ASP.NET MVC also is because of physical folder structure out of the box with controllers and views. Logical folders for Views and controllers and you name each folder corresponding to function. It forces you to have a logical structure because the routing engine uses it. Excellent! ... read more...

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Subtext Admin Password Does Not Work(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 9 months ago

For some reason, some Subtext blogs may have an issue whereas no matter if you use the reset password or not, you can’t log back into your Admin interface. That is, the url http://www.yoursubtextblogdomain.com/admin. I ended up having to actually update read more...

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jQuery Link Repository (codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 10 months ago

As I start on my venture to really start using jQuery a lot more outside of simple form validation, I wanted to share some really great links I found lately that once again got me fired up about jQuery. This is part of my initial research into more jQuery as we’re going to be using it extensively in our new redesign for the .com I am working at so might as well dig more in now. I’ve used jQuery in the past and know its power & philosophy behind unobtrusive JavaScript and JQuery, but have not yet worked on anything extremely extensive outside aiding to help create a custom validation control in MVC using jQuery in the past. Personally (some agree, some don’t) I think the jQuery Site’s tutorials & API docs are only “fair” at this point in time, so you need a lot of links to supplement the learning process. While yes, jQuery makes things “easier”, the learning curve is a bit steep at first for most good developers I’ve talked with. Don’t expect to jump in and be a jQuery Guru overnight. read more...

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Shout Out to Derik Whittaker & Dimecasts.NET(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 11 months ago

I wanted to give a shout out to a friend of mine who started a really cool and useful site a while back called Dimecasts.net. This site was created by Derik Whittaker, a very good read more...

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How to Setup Google FeedBurner for Subtext Blog RSS(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 11 months ago

1) Get your Subtext blog live 2) Create a Google FeedBurner account. It’s tied to a Gmail account so you need to log in first when you arrive at feedburner.google.com/ read more...

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Must use !important on your CSS class for Text color to work on ASP.NE(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 11 months ago

There is absolutely not excuse not to use CSS classes in your asp.net controls. And just because some appear not to work, doesn’t mean they can’t. For example, it’s important to note that if you specify a CssClass in an ASP.NET validation control, you will find out that if you specify a color, that it doesn’t take. That’s because you need to decorate it with !important in your CSS class: read more...

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Code & Run / Speed Kills(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 11 months ago

For a long time, I have harped that code & run shops are not going deliver any business or employee sustainable results. It’s pretty much common sense to me, but a lot of businesses do not give a damn or get it. It obviously causes all sorts of BIG problems for businesses and the people they employ: read more...

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Subtext 2.1 – A great .NET Open Source Blogging Platform(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 11 months ago

If you are looking for a free .NET based open source blogging application, Subtext may be for you or your company. It’s a mature and established blogging framework founded by MS employee Phil Haack. My site is using Subtext and I’ve been very happy with it as compared to solutions such as Telligent Community Server which are not free and are quite heavy and complicated just for running a simple blog for you or your company. Here is the rundown of its current benefits as I’ve experienced: read more...

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Does your Current Desk/Office Compliment a Developer Lifestyle?(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 2 years, 11 months ago

I was reading Joel Spolsky’s blog the other day as he was describing a new office that would bring a great development environment to a new building for his consulting business. As I started thinking about this, I started to think about all the shitty cubes or PCs I’ve typically had in the past. Some cubes were good, & some were simply falling apart. Most PCs just were customer service desktops or laptops at best. Now, I did not expect to have an office or the perfect PC but surely the tools to be efficient at my job. Offices were always “something for managers” and usually as a developer you just reside with the thought that you’re most likely never going to have one unless you’re a team lead, manager or whatever. Even most team leads do not have an office. read more...

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Facebook API photos.Get – Querying photos by UID(codezest.com)

submitted by daveschinkel(1720) 3 years ago

Why? Because it was not clear to me how to pass the UserID to the HttpWebRequest in order to query all photos by that UserID. For example, if you took a look at the description of parameters for the photos.Get method call (before they changed it), you saw the following: .. Now where would I pass the uid I thought? I am not using FQL at the moment (just API calls instead to do the same) so I did not really care to scroll down further because I knew all their pages dive into FQL at that point mostly. I scrolled only enough to get to the FQL and back up. But eventually I decided to hunt further since I saw no way of passing a uid to the request, and found the following FQL read more...

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