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March 2007

JavaScript Bible 6th Edition is Here

I have just received the brand new, 6th edition of Danny Goodman’s JavaScript Bible. With strong emergence of Mozilla and Safari browsers, as well as considerable advancements in the Internet Explorer engine, this is a much needed update! Read this blog post

3/30/2007  | Discuss this postNo comments yet  |  No TrackBacks

Book Review: Mavericks at Work

Mavericks at Work is very much like Less is More, Think Big, Act Small, Build to Last, or Good to Great. It’s an overview of some remarkable practices the authors, William Taylor and Polly LaBarre, found in a handful of companies around the world. The book covers a lot of ground, so I’m only going to share my favorite quotes (by the way, the etymology of the word maverick is quite interesting). Read this blog post

3/18/2007  | Discuss this post1 comment  |  No TrackBacks

Stunning Design of Seattle Public Library

If you’re in Seattle for the MVP Summit (or whatever other reason), I strongly recommend a visit to the new Seattle Public Library. I’ve heard good things about its great design, so I decided to see it for myself. You can join a guided tour or wander around with a camera by yourself (which is what I did). Read this blog post

3/12/2007  | Discuss this postNo comments yet  |  No TrackBacks

Announcing PositiveLookahead.com

My blogging hiatus should come to an end now that I’ve wrapped up and launched a “community project” that I’m proud to announce: PositiveLookahead.com. I’ve summarized what I’m trying to achieve here. Over the past several months, I’ve gone through a large number of book reviews at Amazon, ASP.NET Forums, etc, and carefully analyzed why some reviews worked (and were in minority) while most didn’t. I then tried to distill comments into a series of criteria I believed would help a person buy the absolutely best book for his or her money.  Read this blog post

3/12/2007  | Discuss this post3 comments  |  No TrackBacks

The Curse of Knowledge

On Scott’s recommendation, I picked up a copy of Mavericks at Work (we seem to have a very similar taste in books), and I really like it so far. The book reminds me of the seminal Good to Great, although it profiles companies from a different angle. Read this blog post

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SQL 2005 Service Manager Resurrected

SQL Server 2005 is missing a very handy tool—the little Service Manager app which sits in the tray and allows you to see the status, start, and stop SQL Server instance(s). I loved that tool. Apparently, Jasper Smith suffered similar separation anxiety, so he wrote a Service Manager of his own. Read this blog post

3/5/2007  | Discuss this post3 comments  |  No TrackBacks

New York City Code Camp Presentation "Slides"

I’d like to thank attendees of the NYC Code Camp and those of you who attended my talk on ASP.NET and web standards. Read this blog post

3/4/2007  | Discuss this post1 comment  |  No TrackBacks

Always Centered AJAX Progress Indicator

In an earlier post I mentioned my struggle with the ProgressUpdate control. In many situations it would be helpful to place the progress indicator right in the middle of the page so users always have an idea something is happening. The problem with this is, well, Internet Explorer < 7 .0 which treats lists (dropdowns, list boxes) as windowed controls, so they always show on top of other HTML elements.  Read this blog post

3/1/2007  | Discuss this post16 comments  |  No TrackBacks

Sys.Application.add_load != window.onload

I remember seeing a sample which used Sys.Application.add_load to attach a function you’d normally want to run upon window.onload. It went like this: Read this blog post

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