Welcome to SSWUG for 2011 Well, here is my first editorial for 2011. I’ve been doing the daily editorial now for SSWUG since July, and it has been a blast. I’ve tried a number of things this year such as career tips, how to tips, high level reviews of books, tools, blogs and web sites, as well as best practices. […]
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Filtering DOM elements with jQuery
A few days back I was asked to build a scrolling div full of checkboxes populated via a database query record set that could be filtered. To accomplish this, I’ve often used AJAX in the past to hit a CF component that would run a SELECT statement containing a WHERE clause that looked for a record LI
Unobtrusive JavaScript in ASP.NET MVC 3 AjaxHelpers
(David Hayden) I am very excited about the changes to ASP.NET MVC 3 in regards to its use of Unobtrusive JavaScript and jQuery with the AjaxHelpers. When ASP.NET MVC first came out it used Microsoft Ajax and inline JavaScript with both Ajax.BeginForm and Ajax.ActionLink.
ASP.NET MVC 3: Layouts and Sections with Razor
(Scott Guthrie) In today’s post I’m going to go into more details about how Layout pages work with Razor. In particular, I’m going to cover how you can have multiple, non-contiguous, replaceable “sections” within a layout file – and enable views based on layouts to optionally “fill in” these differ
LotusScript Connectors for DB2
(François Andry) In my previous post I was explaining how to install the IBM Data Server Runtime Client, including some ODBC DB2 drivers to access a DB2 Database remotely. In this new post I explain the bare minimum to install in order to access a DB2 Data Source via LotusScript Extension for Lotus
Schema based XML compare
(Mukul Gandhi) David A. Lee (producer of XMLSH — A command line shell for XML) raised an interesting discussion a while ago on XML-DEV mailing list, about how to do XML Schema aware XML document comparison.
Customize Styles
(kolliparachandra) In many cases, a designer wants to preserve the look and feel of a Web page by applying certain custom styles to the page content. Doing so makes it possible to change the definition of style sheets to change the look and feel of the page now, without affecting the page content in
SharePoint 2010: Linking SharePoint User to Active Directory User
(Sohel Rana) While we are using SharePoint Foundation, Sometimes we need to get the active directory user details based on current logged in user. If you are using SharePoint Server then this is not a big deal as you can get the user details through user profile. However, if you are using SharePoint
WebGrid WebHelper in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC 21retweet
(Malcolm Sheridan) ASP.NET MVC 3 RC contains a full suite of web helpers that Microsoft have made available through the Microsoft Web Helpers library. This can be downloaded through NuGet (formerly NuPack). NuGet is a free open source package manager that makes it easy for you to find, install, and
Exploring Array FoldLeft() Concepts In ColdFusion
(Ben Nadel) As I’ve been making my way through the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book by Bruce Tate, one of the language features that I find myself consistently enjoying is that of “fold left.” Folding, in general, is the act of applying an operator and a running product to each value within an ar