Here is a simple class for server-side geocoding. This implementation uses the basic csv data transfer format so it is just geocoding. It can easily be extended to return more data by switching to the json data transfer format. It can also be easily extended to support reverse geocoding...
In C# and Ruby we can use the Where() and Select() methods to select elements from a collection by testing each element with a predicate (method that returns a boolean). Unfortunately, javascript does not have this capability. Here is the code to add a where() method to the javascript array class...
JQuery includes powerful ajax features for enriching the experience of a web application. This post will describe the simplest case, using ajax to replace part of a page with new content from the server...
I mentioned somewhere that I am a freelancer and I got this email:
I am looking at getting into freelance web design and development myself. I was wondering if you would be kind enough to share some information with me about your experience? ...
The good people at Telerik have been kind enough to integrate their UI controls with the ASP.NET MVC framework so that we don't have to go without glorious and essential features like spell checking and paste-from-word...
Over the last 12 months I have been doing a lot of work with geospatial web applications. That is a fancy way of saying web apps with maps. A recurring question has been, "given a list of places that a person wants to visit can we provide an optimal path for them to take?". The first time someone asked me this I responded like a programmer, "no, it's impossible...
In this post I will present a service class for resizing and saving an image. The service has one public method, ResizeAndSave() which accepts a stream, a filename and a directory to save the file to. It uses a simple algorithm to rescale the image to fit into a maximum rectangle and then performs the actual resize using System.Drawing, and returns the dimensions of the resized image....
Gravatar is a service that provides globally unique avatars linked to email addresses. Imagine you could include a user's gravatar in a view simply by passing their email address to a helper...
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...Combining these two facts I decided to build Frankenserver. The goal is to retrofit a desktop PC into a cheap 2 RU server case...
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When a customer sponsors a software development project they want to know two things: how much will the project cost and when will the project be finished. The trouble with agile is that it cannot answer either of these questions with any degree of confidence...
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In an attempt to improve the user experience modern websites are using javascript more and more. If you are even remotely serious about performance then you need to
merge your script files and minify the result. Minification is the process of removing unnecessary characters from a resource to reduce the size of the file.
You need to verify your javascript because javascript tries to tolerate errors. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is stupid. It can lead to a situation where invalid javascript works in its full form, but fails when minified.
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As others have pointed out Asp.Net MVC is full of magic strings. We use magic strings to...
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The default Asp.Net MVC View Helpers use method overloads to allow customisation of the generated output...
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Critics of ASP.NET MVC often point out that view code can end up looking a bit like classic ASP spaghetti code. Two of the major offenders are conditionals and loops in the view...
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Sometimes, very occassionally, I come across an application that is intuitive, simple and a joy to use. Things are where I expect them to be. There is a help system but I don't need to use it. Here are my favourites:
http://hackingon.net/post/My-Favourite-Tools.aspx