Tips for Using JQuery with ASP.NET Ajax

June 9th, 2008

Dave Ward has put together an excellent and extensive post on his experiences integrating jQuery with ASP.NET
There are the usual number of pitfalls you’d expect when integrating [insert widely-used microsoft technology here] with [insert useful open source technology here]
Want to consume a JSON Web Service with jQuery? Sounds simple. That’s kinda the point of JSON [...]

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Microsoft SQL Server Vs MySQL

June 6th, 2008

A collegaue of mine - a VB developer - sent me a link to this page on the Microsoft website which attempts to comapre MySQL to their own SQL Server by drawing some.. shall we say creative comparisons.
By no means is the article completely factually inaccurately. There are many valid points which no one [...]

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imagettfbbox() Could not find/open font

June 4th, 2008

This evening I noticed a problem with the script which generates the image headings for this site. It had stopped working. I hadn’t noticed until now because the process caches all previously generated images and as such it hadn’t actually run for a while.
The error
imagettfbbox() [function.imagettfbbox]: Could not find/open font
The specified font file existed and [...]

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The Semantic Web On The Horizon?

May 21st, 2008

It’s all to easy to dismiss the concept of the semantic web as just another one of Tim Berners-Lee’s “look at me i invented the Internet don’t you know” attempts not fall into obscurity, but today I was pointed this morning in the direction of an open email from a developer working within the BBC [...]

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Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide

April 18th, 2008

This is not just an advert for some O’Reilly book. Adobe AIR for JavaScript developers provides an introduction to Adobe AIR for developers interested in building AIR applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It’s been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
Which means you can go buy a copy right now from Amazon if [...]

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