Will’s Blog

A few days ago I looked at various solutions to enhance an exhisting DataList control at work. The DataList brings back a fair bit of data from several different tables and seemed a bit bloated. The first solution I looked at was data paging and only showing rows as needed. The DataList doesn’t come with [...]

The IE Team have just announced the availability of Beta 1 of IE8 for developers. You can read more about that on their blog. Obviously as a web developer, the mind immediately turns to “so, what’s in it for me?”. Picked up the following points from an MSDN Doc on what’s new for IE8: Accessibility No [...]

Looks like there’s a new JavaScript IDE in town. It goes by the name Aptana. It actually looks quite interesting from the screenshots, haven’t tried it yet. Currently downloading it to give it a go. It’s open source, and it’s free. If you use Eclipse, they have a plugin available for that. I like that [...]

This is an interesting one that I just came across today. One of our users has downloaded the latest IE7 Beta release and has found that one of the features that she relies on no longer behaves the same way. I got her to try to use that feature on another PC (which has IE6), [...]

Just noticed that there’s a download available from MSDN TV titled ASP.NET “Atlas” First Look. You can watch it streaming here, or download it for offline viewing here.

Came across an interesting project on CodeProject by Mike Ellison called SqlWhereBuilder a few days ago. It basically allows users of your app to dynamically build their own SQL Queries without needing to fiddle with the actual SQL. You could potentially build some sort of simple reporting page using it. It uses JavaScript to keep [...]

Wilco Bauwer has posted an Atlas Class Browser which will show the public properties/events/methods of each Atlas type. It includes the Web, Web.Net, Web.Data, Web.Services, Web.UI, Web.UI.Data namespaces. If you prefer, however to explore the actual Atlas JavaScript files, but prefer a more “spaced out” version, check out Ralph Sommerer’s post. He’s got some funky [...]

Saw Morfik mentioned in a recent blog entry at the Ajaxian.com blog, and have finally had a bit more of a look. First thing? Had a look at their About Morfik page. What did I see? Morfik is located in Hobart, Australia. Wow, innovation from that little island just south of Melbourne (And we share [...]

A little while ago, I blogged about a CSS cheat sheet made available at the ILoveJackDaniels.com website. I just noticed that the blogs’ author (Dave Child) has a few more up. From: http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/ – JavaScript Cheet Sheet – CSS – RGB Hex Colour Chart Looks handy. Though I always keep a local saved copy of [...]

On Wednesday night I did a demo of Atlas. I was going to do a little demo on the Virtual Earth Atlas Server Control. In hindsight, doing a demo that depended on “external resources” was probably not the best idea. But it was working fine just moments before the presentation, and I hadn’t noticed the [...]