Joel Varty
A software architect's thoughts from <a href="http://www.edentity.ca" style="text-decoration:underline">Edentity Web Systems</a> in Toronto, Canada. <br/> Read my personal blog here: <a href="http://joelvarty.com" style="text-decoration:underline">joelvarty.com</a>
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My thoughts on the future of the web with respect to flash, plugins, etc…
More than 10 years ago I was coding Java applets. They were great at the time because I could reasonably expect them to run the same way in Netscape and Internet Explorer. I could also reliably do asynchronous networking back to the server. But then, Microsoft pulled their native Java runtime from Windows and Internet Explorer. It got a lot harder to get applets running in people’s browsers.
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Breaking Changes in Asp.Net 4
I upgraded an app to .net just for fun and a bunch of things broke.
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Issue with VS 2010 RTM: IDE hangs when debugging .net 3.5 web apps
This isn’t how I hoped my first experience with the VS 2010 RTM would be…
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jQuery Masonry – the answer to vertical flow layout
“Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.”
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Amazon CloudFront Cache Invalidation – Fill out the Survey!
Amazon have come up with a survey regarding how cache can be invalidated on object stored in their CloudFront servers.
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Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0 – Available today!
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Data Services Update for .NET 3.5 SP1…
I have started writing OData style services for a couple of clients, and I noticed that a lot of the classes in the API were missing… That’s because I needed to download the update, just having .net 3.5 sp1 wasn’t enough..
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Removing the autocomplete or F5 Refresh in Firefox from remembering field values…
With a normal input field, the value will be “remembered” by Firefox when you hit F5 or Refresh. ctrl-F5 will clear the value, but most users won’t know to do that. So if you need a value to remain blank, or set to it’s default value, on a regular refresh, simply add the following attribute: autocomplete="off"
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What is Cloud Computing?
This is a question that we discuss quite often at Edentity. It’s one of those things, kind of like “web services” where the terminology has been thrown around by a ton of people and means a lot of different things.
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Amazon S3 – Now with Versioning!
One of best tools that we’ve been using extensively with Agility is Amazon’s Simple Storage Service. One of the features that we get asked about often (probably because we have it built into our own custom storage tool) is the ability to store versions and to recover deleted files.