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 Sunday, September 21, 2008
CSS Round Corners
http://www.spiffybox.com/
http://www.spiffycorners.com/
http://blog.yosle.com/2007/09/20/css-round-corners/
http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000044.php

Sunday, September 21, 2008 4:58:07 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2006/05/13/Custom_Output_Caching_in_ASP.NET.aspx

Tip/Trick: Implement "Donut Caching" with the ASP.NET 2.0 Output Cache Substitution Feature

"For anyone interested in seeing the above in some real code, subText uses this very technique to cache several of the user controls needed to render the UI..." - http://subtextproject.com/


Sunday, September 21, 2008 4:39:41 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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 Saturday, April 26, 2008
Beth Massi posted nice presentation on Ling to XML on Infoq.com.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/massi-linq-xml

She also rights regularily on her blog "Sharring the goodness tha is VB" - http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/

VB.NET 9.0 has nice syntactic sugar tha C# 3.0 don't have for working with XML and Linq.
Saturday, April 26, 2008 12:27:46 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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 Monday, April 21, 2008
I am getting more and more comfortable with different javascript frameworks.
The simple reason is that frameworks got much better.
I used javascript here and there before but tried to stay away from internals and poluting my memory with different behaviors of JavaScript in different browsers.

My first encounter with AJAX was via using MagicAjax.net at the begining of 2005. Later when Atlas/ASP.NET AJAX got better I start using it for my projects.
I have now enough understanding to see that ASP.NET AJAX can be somewhat havy and from now on I am trying to use more browser friendlier and much lighter options utilizing following javascript libraries and CSS resources:
  • jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
  • Ext JS 2.0 Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications.
  • Dynamic Drive's new CSS library! Here you'll find original, practical CSS codes and examples such as CSS menus to give your site a visual boast.
Combine this with the good server side scripting technology like ASP.NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails and others and you may get very close to perfect harmony and nice warm Zen like feeling about design and performance of your web application. ;-)

Monday, April 21, 2008 10:43:42 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers
http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2008/02/28/link-to-everything-a-list-of-linq-providers.aspx

LINQPad lets you interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language: LINQ.  Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio!
http://www.linqpad.net/

Visual LINQ Query Builder http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vlinq/
Monday, April 21, 2008 9:40:12 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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Monday, April 21, 2008 9:27:46 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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Source Control: Anything But SourceSafe -> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000660.html
Visual SourceSafe Version Control: Unsafe at any Speed? -> http://www.developsense.com/testing/VSSDefects.html
Visual SourceSafe: Microsoft's Source Destruction System -> http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/windev/sourcesafe.html

Source Control HOWTO -> http://www.ericsink.com/scm/source_control.html

Article "Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams" by Henrik Kniberg  http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-version-control

Monday, April 21, 2008 9:24:22 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Helped with work | Version Control | When things go wrong
The SQL Site Map Provider You've Been Waiting For
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163657.aspx

 Using Multiple Sitemap Files
 http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/archive/2007/10/04/115848.aspx
 How to: Configure Multiple Site Maps and Site-Map Providers
 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178426.aspx

Sitemap Celebration
http://www.zabdesign.de/pro/public/sitemap/sitemap-styled.html

Monday, April 21, 2008 9:22:56 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

Most used CSS tricks -> http://stylizedweb.com/2008/03/12/most-used-css-tricks/

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels.
http://960.gs/

CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death  http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites

Can you take a simple list and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list.  http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/index.htm
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/

CSS Control Adapter Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/05/02/CSS-Control-Adapter-Toolkit-for-ASP.NET-2.0-.aspx
http://www.asp.net/cssadapters/

ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters: The White Paper
http://www.asp.net/CSSAdapters/WhitePaper.aspx

Monday, April 21, 2008 9:18:47 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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 Sunday, March 02, 2008
 Monday, February 18, 2008
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 Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Using XQuery to Manage XML with SQL Server 2005
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=468058

XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/

XML Support in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345117.aspx

Performance Optimizations for the XML Data Type in SQL Server 2005
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345118.aspx
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:52:24 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Helped with work | SQL Server | Web Services | XML
 Thursday, January 17, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:27:37 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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Creating a web service for an InfoPath form in 25 easy steps
http://blogs.msdn.com/philoj/archive/2005/11/08/490200.aspx

Developing InfoPath Forms for Anonymous Access
http://www.paylasimnoktasi.com/en/anonymousinfopathforms.aspx

All About SharePoint - S.S. Ahmed - MVP Microsoft SharePoint
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/default.aspx

Programmatically create an InfoPath form from scratch using a Console application and C# code
http://enterprise-solutions.swits.net/infopath2007/programmatically-create-infopath-form-console-app.htm


Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:26:19 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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 Friday, December 28, 2007
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 Thursday, December 27, 2007
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 Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 4:11:21 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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 Monday, December 24, 2007
"Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language."

http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/
Monday, December 24, 2007 3:20:08 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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 Sunday, December 23, 2007
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 7:04:27 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Helped with work | SQL Server
http://codebetter.com/blogs/eric.wise/archive/2006/11/16/Note-to-self_3A00_-Firefox-Windows-Authentication.aspx


To enable windows authentication on your domain.
  1. Open Firefox
  2. Navigate to the url about:config
  3. Locate the following preference names and put as the value the comma separated values of the address roots.
  • network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
  • network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris
  • network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris
Your value should look something like this: localhost, server1, server2, serverX
Sunday, December 23, 2007 6:19:49 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 6:11:40 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/SQL-Server/Using-Triggers-In-MS-SQL-Server/2/

CREATE TRIGGER trig_updateAuthor
ON authors
FOR UPDATE 

AS

DECLARE @oldName VARCHAR(100)
DECLARE @newName VARCHAR(100)

IF NOT UPDATE(au_fName) AND NOT UPDATE(au_lName)
BEGIN
   RETURN 
END

SELECT @oldName = (SELECT au_fName + ' ' + au_lName FROM Deleted)
SELECT @newName = (SELECT au_fName + ' ' + au_lName FROM Inserted)

PRINT 'Name changed from "' + @oldName + '" to "' + @newName + '"'

Sunday, December 23, 2007 6:09:07 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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 Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:38:08 PM (Central America Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Helped with work | SQL Server
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