One of the things I found out about at Tuesday’s MSDN Northeast Roadshow stop in Augusta is the first New England GiveCamp, June 11-13 at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development center in Cambridge, MA. I’m attending, and I’d urge you to do so. A GiveCamp is basically a gathering of developers, DBAs, project managers, designers [...]
How To (Not) Add Numbers In JavaScript, And How To Troll
And now, for some levity, courtesy of Andrew Clover at doxdesk.com: An obvious trolling of Stack Overflow (and one which they have removed), but a funny one, nonetheless. (Click for full-size pic) So full of win, from start to finish. Even the “Related” links are hilarious. FYI, bobince — the straight man in this joke [...]
Live From The Microsoft Launch 2010 Event In Boston
6:50 PM: The event ended at 4:45 PM, following Chris Bowen’s very interesting overview of Windows Phone development. I was desperate to get out of there, and this is the first access to the Web (wifi on the Concord Coach bus) I’ve had since making a beeline for Copley Square. On Windows Phone: It leverages [...]
Dynamically Adding JavaScript To Your ASP.NET Master Page From A Child Page
A common challenge when working with ASP.NET master pages is how to dynamically add JavaScript that is relevant to a specific child page. In other words, maybe your site has 10 child pages that share one master page / template. One of them is, let’s say, a contact us / directions page, and on that [...]
Automatically Wiring Up XHTML Element Events On Page Load With jQuery
Many Web developers find themselves in an environment where the design of a Web page is handled by a graphic designer or junior programmer, either as part of their team or from a subcontractor or the client himself. Unfortunately, traditional HTML / XHTML requires most element events handlers — onmouseover, onclick, onfocus, etc. — to [...]
Parent – Child Select Lists Revisited: Multiple Parent – Child Select Lists Via PHP, MySQL And jQuery
A while ago, I promised to answer Brian’s request for a demonstration of how to make multiple parent / child select lists — in other words, starting from one drop down / select list, having two or more child lists, each of which, in turn, may act as a parent to another list. Multiple parent-child [...]
