Web Development Tools for the Power Developer (Revised)
Six months ago I wrote Web Development Tools for the Power Developer which covered the progress that has been made with tools for web development. It got picked up by a few popular websites and through...
View ArticleThe Near Future of ASP.NET
It won't be long before we can get our hands on the final release of Visual Studio "Orcas" and .NET 3.5. For those of us who did not attend MIX '07 you can still get a sneak peak. I watched Web...
View ArticleUsing Overflow for Inline Frames
I have always wanted to know how some of the fancy layouts that Google uses actually work. The mail and reader applications both have sections within the page which I always assumed where just inline...
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Making Your Blog Printable
I read several great blogs regularly and when I find something is really worthwhile, especially when it is long, I like to print it out and find a good chair to read it. It is just easier to read off...
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Internet Explorer 8 and Future Proofing your Website
Previously I wrote Internet Explorer 7 and Future Proofing your Website which was a primer for preparing the imminent release of Internet Explorer 7. Now we will soon see Internet Explorer 8 which will...
View ArticlePacker for .NET 4.0.1 Released
Packer for .NET has been updated to include a CSS Minify mode which does the same for CSS that JSMin does for JavaScript. Thanks for this addition goes to Chris Lienert who updated the open source...
View ArticlePacker for .NET 4.0.3 Released
Packer for .NET has been updated to provide an easy way to return the minified content directly for a web request. Until now the process of "minifying" content was done either on the command-line or...
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The End of IE6
Internet Explorer 6 was released in August of 2001. Since then Microsoft delayed any new releases after achieving dominance in the browser market which effectively ended the browser wars of the late...
View ArticleBrowser Upgrades, IE6 and ESPN
Back in 2004 I wrote A Great Example of CSS and Javascript in Action which explained how to use CSS and JavaScript carefully due to the varying browser experiences at the time. The situation has...
View ArticlePacker for .NET 4.1 Released
Packer for .NET has been updated to version 4.1. A major new addition is a new MSBuild task called UpdateWebConfig which makes it easier to prepared your web.config file during deployment. There is...
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