Building websites to support different browsers is easy business when you’re relying on the jQuery framework. However, building printer friendly web content is another hurdle for application developers. I recently came across some useful jQuery for printing Sharepoint web parts. The idea was pure genius – wrap the bit of HTML you want to print [...]
Unless you are a seasoned COM junky, the Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API will come as a welcome addition to anyone needing to programmatically manage Microsoft Exchange appointments, calendars, messages, or any other folders residing on an exchange server. The key difference with EWS is that it is using purely managed code. EWS itself [...]
I’ve developed many custom components for BizTalk in the past several years, but I have never had to work with very large input files (>100MB), primarily I’ve simply created output files. In a recent need to gather several years worth of historical data, it became apparent that memory constraints were going to be pushed to [...]
I have a question for you – Is technology over used? Now, being in the IT services industry I would love to say “No!” However, technology is not always the answer and actually rarely is by itself. Technology is a way to enhance a process, a way to reach customers in a new and different [...]
Today Microsoft announced that its funding $1 million to create a 501(c)(6) corporation called the CodePlex Foundation. Microsoft created Codeplex.com in 2006 to allow developers the opportunity to share open source projects completely free to the community. One of the first open source projects shared on CodePlex was the AJAX Control Toolkit, a very well-known [...]
Bookmarklets can be powerful aids for web development. With jQuery providing so much innovation in the browser landscape, many bookmarklets are pushing the bar. Here are some interesting ones that I’ve found incredibly useful and use in conjunction with (or absence of) the built-in browser developer tools.
jQuerify is a simple way to inject the jQuery [...]
Neither do I… In any event, if you haven’t heard these days, everyone seems to be talking about the cloud. A cool website a co-worker showed me is http://blindsearch.fejus.com (careful, you can waste a lot of time here…) It’s pretty cool actually. It has one search bar you can use but then displays “blind” results [...]
If you haven’t tried out SQL Azure, you have until November 2009 to demo it until they begin charging customers for their usage. The service itself is still in its infancy, but the latest iteration finally supports relationships which is a big win in my book. Besides, what good is non-relational data (other than the [...]
When creating rich internet applications (RIA), having good communication back to the end user is critical. jGrowl is an excellent tool to provide instant notifications messages to the client using the jQuery framework. jGrowl is simple to use and easy to configure. Here is a quick introduction on how to get started with it. This [...]
