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It’s pretty widely accepted (and common sense) that if you’re putting a site out into the wild – such a simple task as minifying CSS and JavaScript files can save a bunch of load time, especially on mobile devices. I’ve been playing about with this today and was quite happily using jsmin as described here until I noticed that in IE 7 and IE 8 the minified CSS didn’t work. The problem seems to be when using a background style, it takes out the space between the image url close bracket and the next...
Check out my new live search component to the right here -> I came across this on Heather Solomon's blog, thought it was cool so had a play and set one up for my blog. To start with get yourself over to http://search.live.com/site... select the advanced option. I think it only works if you have your blog on a custom domain like blog.steveclements.net as www.geekswithblogs.net/stev... doesn't work. I also created a live search macro for geekwithblogs.net and used and existing one for msdn...
I am starting down a path with Sharepoint (MOSS 2007), so I found a nice MOSS virtual machine download, its only a 30 day trial, but that'll do for the moment. It's nice that it comes all installed etc, just to get a flavour. The virtual machine is also a domain controller - not sure whether there is any specific reason that relates to a MOSS installation! The image also contains SQL 2005 SP1, Office 2007 Pro, Sharepoint Designer and some other bits...check the above link for more details. Back to...
Reading Scott Hanselman's blog this morning, he stated that MS have released ASP.net Wiki. The idea is basically a "one-stop-shop" for all things asp.net to save people the time of googling and going through the results. First of all I thought that sounded like a good idea, but thinking about it I'm not so convinced and let me tell you why! Looking through the wiki, what I basically see is a carefully selected collection of links to various posts on a particular subject, now of course the wiki is...
Having just finished my masters exams for semester 1, I am planning to blog a little more! I am only doing the masters part time over two years so a fair way to go yet but none the less, it's one of my points for being a better developer in done. The semester 1 modules of OO Design and development (Java and UML) and Software engineering concepts threw up some interesting hurdles, like Netbeans and Java (I hope to get back to learn more about Java, but perhaps away from Netbeans!), SE concepts really...
I seem to be working more and more my lappy these days...still always on the my PC at the office but when at home the laptop has taken over from my machine of choice...strange really because I love having two monitors and find it a fantastic way to work but I guess the freedom a laptop has to offer wins the day. Anyway, I digress...seeing I was working on it more and more I decided to get myself a Christmas present in the guise of a specialist notebook mouse, I looked at several offerings from Microsoft...
Well it turns out that yes it is! To be honest I haven't ever given much thought to which the more popular language is but when listening to Scott Hanselman's latest offering it turns out VB is. Scott is chatting with Paul Vick (VB Principle Architect) and Paul Yuknewicz (Senior PM on the VB team) when they also mention that VB Express and even C++ Express have more downloads that C# Express - now I put this down to C# being used by pro's who have access to VS Pro or more Team Suite :) but none the...
The final session of Mix:UK 07 was a sneak peeks session. This covered about 8 new things that we can expect to see from Microsoft and a partner or two. The pick of the bunch were (in my opinion): A product called SeaDragon that will be released as part of Silverlight 1.1 next year, its a way a handling/rendering/doing something with high res images so you can use very high res images in your Silverlight app to enable the user to zoom right in and still be clear without having huge performance overheads,...
I just noticed that there was a serious problem with my javascript editor in VS 2008, goes to show how much JS I write! I have had VS 2008 installed since beta 1 :) Anyway, I had no intellisense or an colour at all, all the text was just black. After a little searching I found this blog post from the webdevtools blog. You need to change a couple of values in the registry... [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR... "CodeBase"=file:///C:\\Program...
Tim Hibbard has tagged me, so here goes... Meet more developers Not so long ago I posted about a new user group in my area (well, 1hr drive away) yet I am still to attend a meeting, I really must; I know very few developers and I have no doubt I could learn a great deal from attending such event and hopefully enjoy the whole thing! Targeted Reading & LearningI do spend a lot of time reading, researching and playing with new stuff but need to target my reading/learning. I tend to read loads of...
Developing Vista Sidebar Gadgets So those of you who have Vista will be well aware of the sidebar, some may love it, some may not see the point! Personally I like it; I think from a developer’s perspective it opens some great possibilities to enhance existing applications/services and also just to have some fun with! From a users perspective it adds some cool functionality to my desktop! Vista gadgets are basically a collection of HTML, CSS and JS files; with an XML file that is the gadget manifest...
Its been a while since I have blogged, which is mainly down to my new job...settling in, new research etc. means I have had other things to do! Anyway, the new job is at Bath Spa University working in a small but very talented development team working to totally revolutionise the universities systems both internally and externally. Its a big challenge but they now have the resource make it happen!! The office is great, nice georgian buliding! See a couple of pics below...if was a pretty dull January...
I have had Vista installed for about a month and although I haven’t specifically spent time to find out exactly what’s new I have developed likes and dislikes. I think somewhere on GWB I saw a post along the lines of “What’s all the fuss about?”, I don’t agree with that; from what I have seen at the Vista Developer launch and .net 3 the world of development is getting better in the Vista era! Especially from a UI perspective. So anyway my likes and dislikes (please post yours; I would like to see...
Found this post earlier and well worth sharing; I have wanted to know how to do this for sometime. I have googled, searched books etc but never come up with the answer. Fortunately there are smarter and more experienced people out there than me and Rick Strahl is one of them, if you don't subscribe to his blog I recommend it. He has posted some code on how to find out if the application is running in debug mode...turns out its pretty simple and if I had spent sometime with intellisense (the best...
After downloading Vista Enterprise from MSDN and finally got round to installing it!!! And wow!! It's really is pretty! a total joy to use. To top it off I installed Office 2007 and am publishing this post with Word 2007. I have had a couple of problems installing it with a few things not working straight away I had to search around for some drivers and my printer software wont install but the drivers are OK. My PC has a rank of 4.0 on the "Vista Scale" out of (apparently) 5.9(?) see more here; next...
I love working with our designers to get a great UI, I'm lucky enough to normally develop my applications/systems across all tier's, not a huge fan of SQL development but any coding is better than none...right!!! anyway presentation layer development is one of my favorite. Now with the power of Microsoft AJAX Library (so PC!) in my backpocket we can really pull off some great looking and ' awesome experience' UI's. Well being a programmer my flare for layout and colour co-ordination is not fantastic!!...