Joel Varty

There are a plethora of explanations for JSONP (JSON with Padding, I think it stands for) out there – just search for “how JSONP works” and you’ll get a ton of descriptions.  JSONP is provided as an alternative to normal JSON by jQuery on the client side to enable the invocation of services outside of the current domain.

If you were ever looking at some code and wondered who actually changed the line of text you were currently looking at, there is a way to do just that!

When you run a background thread or async handler in asp.net, the thread will not run with the same identity specified in the impersonate tag of the web.config.  You can easily get around this by grabbing the identity before the thread starts and either storing it in a variable or passing it to the thread as part of the ParameterizedThreadStart delegate.

This is something that is super easy, yet I get asked about it quite often.

Disclaimer: This is meant to be use ONLY ff you do NOT want your user to be able to Tab through the links on your site, or if you have already coded the :focus subclasses or onfocus script events for all of the elements in your site that you wish your user to be able to visually tab through.

This is the update to the VS 2008 Database Edition and adds support for SQL Server 2008 and no longer requires a local database server to operate.  It was released back in April, but I just realized I needed it when I installed SQL Server 2008 on my local development machine, and found out that the base install does NOT support SQL Server 2008.

This is a process that is becoming more and more important as we offload a ton of our page processing to .js files as opposed to HTML files processed by the server.  This is because we are doing more client templating and logical processing on the client and not on the server.