Will’s Blog

A few months ago, at one of the MXPEG (Melbourne eXtreme Programming Enthusiasts Group) there was a presentation by Darrell DeBoer (from ThoughtWorks) on something that a few ThoughtWorkers have been working on called Selenium. I still haven’t used it yet, but I thought people might be interested in it. I found it quite interesting [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m presenting this month at the newly formed Victoria .NET User Group (that’s MDNUG+AusDev+Victoria.NET Cluster). http://www.victoriadotnet.com.au/index.aspx?link_id=84.459 My talk is on Ajax and apart from the general Ajax stuff, i’ll be talking about how to make use of it in ASP.NET applications. This will be my first presentation at the user group and my first proper [...]

Wow this looks nice. It’s basically a DB Admin tool written for the web. Currently it supports only the MySQL database which is fine for the large majority of web hosting providers (running some form of Linux) as that seems to be the DB of choice (although I’ve come across some that use PostgreSql instead). [...]

I was browsing around the net last night and found a link to an interesting resource which shows you how to get rounded corners for your web page elements without resorting to the need of using transparent gif images to replace the corners to make it “look” rounded. First off, have a look at this [...]

Here’s a thought to throw out to all that read I’m sure almost everyone nowadays have used Microsoft Word and have witnessed their sometimes useful “Auto Save” functionality. Well, I just had a quick idea that juts came to mind. Using JavaScript one can replicate a similar type of feature through the usage of either [...]

I was browsing around the web last night looking for resources on building rich javascript User Interfaces and found the following links: Building Rich DHTML User Interfaces Revisited Building High Performance HTML Pages Faster DHTML in 12 Steps Almost forgot, the CSS tip that Scott Isaac posted on his blog looks quite interesting. I think [...]

Noticed this on Scott Isaacs’ blog (bolding signifies the area that I found the most interesting): Having a strong framework for building and integrating rich, highly interactive components enables MSN to deliver much better (and consistent) user experiences. The Framework provides us with a client-side component model, network stacks, firefox compatibility, and OO language enhancements [...]

Oh look, so Microsoft is creating an Atlas hey? Actually, it’s their codename for their new “Web client framework” which will provide us (developers) with tools for developing AJAX style applications. I think what web developers really want is a really good JavaScript IDE. Well, I do anyway… And i’ve seen lots of posts around [...]