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Comprehensive Comparson of 7 Popular JavaScript/Ajax Frameworks

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:16:02 GMT

After four days of ASP.NET AJAX training with Stephen Walther I set out to learn more about my options in choosing a solution for a JavaScript/Ajax framework. If I realized days later I would be writing this comprehensive post on 7 of the most popular frameworks, I may have just went with the "Inny-Minny-Miney-Moe" method! I decided to share my research, analysis, links, resources, and personal grade for each of the frameworks compared - jQuery, YUI, Prototype, Dojo, MooTools, Ext JS, and Script.aculo.us. I put together a comparison matrix to illustrate where many of the frameworks differ...

Do You Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Ask any up and coming developer what they would like to do in the next year or so and you'll invariably hear, "I'd like to become a Development Team Leader". Hopefully most will have actually considered the change of role and be looking for new challenges and ways to contribute more to their chosen profession. However, for some this is an automatic response to a question that is particularly difficult to answer in an industry with no clear career path. For others it's simply a way to move up the pay scale.

Write more empty lines! They will be read!

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:31:02 GMT

Using empty lines in source code may seem like a waste of precious screen space, but it's crucial to writing readable code.

Howto savely move a file using C#

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:31:02 GMT

If possible this version uses the special File.Replace on NTFS and gracially falls back on Delete+Move on any other filesystem. Nothing else to comment about here. I am just amazed that this kind of save moving is not supported by the framework itself. Instead the framework's move routine throws an exception if there is an file existing at the target location. Weird. ;)

Google Chart C# API

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:01:03 GMT

Simple example of using the excellent Google Chart C# API Wrapper, includes code for using on a WinForm app.

VS 2008 Web Deployment Project Support Released

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:46:02 GMT

Web Deployment projects can be used with either the "ASP.NET Web Site" or "ASP.NET Web Application Project" options built-into VS 2008, and provide a few additional build, packaging and deployment options for you to use.

MSDN Code Gallery (Direct link)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:16:02 GMT

The MSDN Code Gallery is a portal for snippets, samples and other resources. In it you can find pages that describe samples and supporting documents including screenshots and design documents. In addition, you will find hosted conversations about these samples, sample projects or other resources that have been provided to the community. This destination is open to the entire community to contribute content to. (Description from Soma's blog)

Free Microsoft Press e-books!

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:16:39 GMT

Once again Microsoft brings some knowledge to the masses :) This time its free e-books. All the headings speak for them selfs and with few words these books are MUST HAVE for every developer. Only few chapters are included in pdf's as you are encouraged to buy them! Here is the content.

Migrating Web Application Projects between VS 2005 and VS 2008

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:31:02 GMT

If you move Web Application Projects between Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005 and a machine that doesn't have Visual Studio 2005 installed you will find that the project doesn't load due to a build target difference.

Implementing an efficient, RecursiveSelect in Linq

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:24:56 GMT

It took three times to get it right, but now there is an efficient recursive sibling to SelectMany...and hopefully an important lesson.

Really simple Business Rule validation using lambdas

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:41:07 GMT

A little abstraction to help with simple rule validation scenarios.