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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Mini Video Game Review: Flower (PS3)
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Lock your web app to 1 outgoing web service call across all threads
One of the things we see a lot of these days are web apps that call other web apps via web services, RSS, or REST APIs.
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Put code in your blog with Windows Live Writer
This plugin for windows live writer called "Insert Code", lets you do this:
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JQuery - get a handle on a server element in javascript without using <%= elem.ClientID %>
One of the things I see a lot of is code that looks like this:
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VS Docs for jQuery 1.3.1
I am using jQuery for everything these days - it really is an awesome add-on to any web application, and what even better is that you can get intellisense on it for the latest version.
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VS 2010 and deployments through IIS - MSDeploy here we come
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IIS 7, Dynamic Compression and tons of AJAX web services means massive performance increases
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javascript:void() will throw a javascript error - you need to use javascript:void(0)
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TSQL - Distance in kilometers between 2 points, given the latitude and longitude
It's always good to know the distance between 2 points.
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Control Output Caching and RegisterClientScriptInclude
Always remember that if you are using Control output caching, RegisterClientScriptInclude will NOT run if the used control is returning a cached version.