Alex Papadimoulis' .NET Blog
Alex's musings about .NET and other Microsoft technologies
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Getting Dynamic HTML From a Page
One popular way to create a rich web experience is using DHTML with XMLHTTP to draw the UI instead of constantly hit the server again. Debugging this process, however, can be quite tedious as a View Source will only show the text sent from the server.
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VB6 to C#
Jeremy just posted about VB.NET vs C# in the enterprise, so I thought I'd share the standard language at my employer.
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Who needs Flash? (Cool DHTML Demo)
While browsing the results of the thirteenth-annual Assembly '04 competition, I came across an extraordinarily impressive DHMTL demo called mooncheese by Shingebis. It's definitely worth checking out.
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Contest to win "A First Look at ASP.NET v2.0"
I'm feeling rather Canadian today, so the first person to correctly answer the following physics question gets my copy of A First Look at ASP.NET v.2.0.
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Javascript Anti-Spam Email Link (#2)
Jason Mauss posted a neat Javascript trick to hide your email address from Spam Bots using a document.write, and I've seen similar techniques using some pretty advanced encoding functions.
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Why VB Is Better Than C# ...
... because I said so. But seriously, while looking something in the newsgroups, I came yet another VB v. C# debate. Better-Intellisense this, Operator Overloading that. I really don't get it. And it got me thinking ... when it comes down to it, it's like arguing what's better: Chocolate or Peanut Butter [*].
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It only took a Long Weekend
Here's a fun comment snippet I came across on Slashdot:
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PHP vs. ASP.NET
Here's some quick information from an unbiased, informative article that discusses the differences between PHP and ASP.NET.
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+5, Insightful
I present to you one of the more insightful comments I've seen on Slashdot in a while:
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Planning for the Future
Alex Campbell griped a bit earlier about how much of a complete pain in the butt it is to maintain an overly complex system. Demonstrative/educational reasons aside, it's quite unnecessary to build platform flexibility into a system when the platform has already been decided. Yes, I do realize that punch card based data providers do not support stored procedures, but sometimes it's just easier to code for a SQL-92 database provider than to build an abstract data factory layer that can handle anything, including cuneiform tablets. Anyways, that got me thinking ... do folks in other fields think with the same “what if they change their mind later” mindset ...