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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Silverlight 2 - Finally a version that can change the world!
Yes, folks - that title is not a joke. Silverlight can completely change how we think about the web.
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The Evolution of Client Side Data Binding in ASP.NET
Client side data binding, where we call a web service method via JavaScript and attach the resulting data to visual elements, is beginning to get a real foothold in this industry.
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Start using jQuery in your Asp.Net apps!
If you were waiting for this to be incorporated into Asp.Net AJAX, you have no more excuses. Scott Guthrie today announced in his blog that Microsoft will ship jQuery support with Visual Studio, and they will provide a vanilla and "intellisense-annotated versions," allowing for complete cooperation with the usage of the package.
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JavaScript in <a> tags: # vs javascript:void(0)
Often times when we get a set of html templates from a designer, we tend to see a lot of this:
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LINQ Architectures in 3 Layer, 3 Tier Applications
Before I get into the great features and great dangers of LINQ, lets get a couple thing out of the way:
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Storing Contextual Data in Web and non-Web applications
In Asp.Net apps, we are used to storing data in the current context. Objects that are specific to the currently executing Request, like a User object retrieved a database, or another object that you want to make globally available without requiring multiple database trips, can benefit from this.
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The Ubiquitous, Mobile Web: The Final Frontier
The web works better when web sites are tailored to the capabilities of the platform.
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iPhone Development
I have never been too excited about developing mobile websites, however the iPhone's browser, and the capabilities of css animation that it supports, is leading me in that direction.
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CSS Tutorials - Noupe
This is a great resource for CSS stuff.
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LINQ Love
I am in the midst of my first full-fledged application that has been designed and architected with the notion that the majority of the data access will go through LINQ-SQL. The first thing I did was add a logging layer on top of the DataContext (by setting the Log property to a custom Stream object) so that I could see exactly what the SQL looked like from various LINQ queries.