August 2009 Entries

If you are thinking about using Windows Work-Flow…you should know…

That MS decided to totally blow it up in .NET 4.0. (weblogs.asp.net link, S/O link). Yes, that’s right, they are totally re-writing WF 4.0 from the ground-up. As the first link states, this could be for any number of reasons including lack of adoption and the perception that WF is just too complex – which I happen to agree with. 3.0/3.5 workflows will still work, but only on the 3.0 runtime. On the one hand, I have to give some credit to MS for basically saying “Hey guys, we effed up and we’re gonna...
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Posted On Friday, August 21, 2009 1:54 PM | Feedback (0)

Surprising jQuery Performance Tip

Was doing some research this morning, as usual, and came across a post from Giulio Bai on jQuery performance tips. A lot of his tips are things I’ve heard elsewhere (no offense!), but one that I haven’t seen anywhere and for some reason surprised me is that using a the JavaScript provided for() loop is considerably faster than using jQuery’s each() function. In fact, it can be several orders of magnitude faster depending on what you’re doing. Interesting. Link to his post Technorati Tags: jQuery,performance...
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Posted On Friday, August 21, 2009 12:28 PM | Feedback (0)

If you value your privacy, do this now…

I’ll keep it short and sweet. Was browsing this new twitter thing that all the kids are playin’ with and I saw an link to this story: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again. Short version: You can create cookie-like objects with flash, that: Don’t get deleted from your machine when you clear cookies Can be used to re-spawn browser-based cookies if you delete them Can do a whole bunch of annoying stuff that you probably don’t want done to your machine To disable this on your browser, go to the following...
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Posted On Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:40 PM | Feedback (2)

XmlSerializer & XmlSerializerFactory: I’m sort of positive you aren’t insane.

A few weeks back I was doing some pokin’ around the ol’ web regarding reading XML from somewhere (database, file-system, the trunk of your car) and into an .NET object. In case you weren’t aware…it turns out .NET makes doing this type of work nothing short of trivial. <slightly off-topic background info> That is, if you had XML that you [stole from MSDN] that looked like this… <?xml version="1.0"?> <book> <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author> <title>XML Developer's...
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Posted On Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:51 PM | Feedback (0)

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