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Archive for March, 2009
TweetDeck Introduces Facebook Integration
TweetDeck has announced a new beta version of their AIR product that introduces Facebook integration. I downloaded it yesterday and have to say that so far it appears promising. You can now view status updates from your friends on Facebook directly in TweetDeck. When posting a new message you can choose to send it to [...]
Use Firebug Outside of Firefox
I know that many of us know and use Firebug a lot. It’s a very good little debugging extension that plugs into Firefox. I saw a post on MakeUseOf.com yesterday about Firebug Lite, which provides most of the basic features of Firebug and allows it to be ran from almost any browser. All you need [...]
URL Rewrite Module in IIS7
I wanted to share this great step by step article written by Ruslan Yakushev at iis.net. It walks through creating a URL rewrite rule, a redirect rule and an access block rule. For those of you who are not yet familiar with IIS7 (part of Windows Server 2008), it now has it's own native URL Rewrite [...]
Lewis Hamilton and the RC Office Grand Prix
The video below is awesome. It starts off with a guy who created an app to control his RC car with his Blackerry Storm. Make sure you watch it half way through to see what the McLaren Formula 1 team added to this video.
Free ASP.NET MVC eBook
Microsoft will be releasing their new ASP.NET MVC framework any day now. With that announcement, Scott Guthrie has also announced his free eBook that explains step by step how to create a new application using the new framework. Thanks to Scott for providing this a great free resource for developers. You can read Scott's description [...]
SEO Wisdom Explained By a Rapper
The video below actually contains some helpful SEO tidbits:
Update: ColdFusion and .NET: Comparing the Performance of Image Resizing
Needless to say, I received many comments and emails from the post this morning about comparing the performance between ColdFusion and .NET when resizing an image. Some folks had wondered if using the ImageResize function instead of the CFIMAGE tag would speed up the ColdFusion numbers. So I decided to test that theory out in [...]
ColdFusion and .NET: Comparing the Performance of Image Resizing
I received a comment from a reader named Daniel yesterday asking if I knew the performance difference in ColdFusion and .NET when resizing an image. I did not know the answer, so I decided to spend a few minutes and run some tests. I ran the code on the same server and used the exact [...]
ColdFusion: _31c is null Javascript Error Message
Late last week I ran across a very strange Javascript error when putting together a few related selects. The error would appear whenever the bind function was fired on one of the select boxes. After some head scratching it finally dawned on me what the issue was. Since the bind function was making a direct [...]
Using the jQuery UI Datepicker
I have really been into learning and using jQuery the last few weeks. I keep coming across some very simple functions that provide a much nicer UI experience. One of these is the Datepicker widget that is a part of the jQuery UI package. The widget is super fast and is customizable in a variety of [...]
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