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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 built in [...]

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 more “alt” for image [...]

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 it shows you the [...]

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.

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 “InScript Code [...]

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 the same [...]

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 this page for the Color codes. [...]

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 [...]

I was just browsing through the Ajaxian.com blog and noticed this post which talked about one of the issues known as the “back button” issue.
Basically, what do you do when the user clicks on the back button in the browser? Naturally, the user expects to see the previous state of the page before they interacted [...]

Here’s the actual presentation file: VDNUG_AjaxPresentation.ppt
I’ll post the actual demos another time.
Just a quick note, there’s a lot of links below. You could spend a long long time reading about it.
If you’re interested in Atlas, do download the Hands On Labs and play around with it. There’s a lot there, and there’s also [...]