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Testing Your HTML5 Pages Through ContentType

As web developers, we typically strive to adhere to best practice and comply with accepted HTML and CSS standards. Ordinarily, to test that our site’s code meets these standards, we’d use an online validation service such as the W3C HTML
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Phil
tags: development best-practice html5 tips and tricks
Sep 01 2010 05:03 PM
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Amplify Your Ajax In jQuery

There’s a lot more out there in the jQuery domain than trusty ol’ $.post() and $.ajax(). In this post, I’m going to cover off some of the less-used but incredibly useful Ajax helper functions for events when your Ajax calls start, stop,
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Phil
tags: development jquery quick-hits tips and tricks
Aug 31 2010 08:26 PM
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CSS Generators : Why God, WHY?

I subscribe to a number of different tweet streams, sites and feeds that become – more or less – like my morning paper when I get into the office. Sit down with my hot chocolate and pick off a few of the most eye-grabbing headlines. One of these recently
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Phil
tags: development css software web design
Aug 30 2010 03:45 PM
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Getting Over Your jQuery DOM Ready Addiction

If you’re getting started with jQuery or have been using casually for some time, you’ll have read your share of blogs, documentation and assorted other sources decreeing that any and all jQuery code must be declared within the following code: <script
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Phil
tags: development jquery best-practice design
May 15 2010 02:57 PM
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Introducing the Quicklist: Building a Better Checkbox List

I have been doing some work for a client recently that required displaying a (potentially long) list of values from the database. These needed to be selectable in bulk, so naturally I opted for using the jQuery UI Selectable plugin. For the uninitiated,
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Phil
Apr 01 2010 04:18 PM
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Event Binding with jQuery delegate()

jQuery version 1.4.2 was released on February 19th this year and along for the ride is the new jQuery.delegate() method. This method is very similar to the $.live() method in that it is used to: Attach a handler to the event for all elements which match
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Phil
tags: development jquery tips and tricks web development
Mar 12 2010 09:59 AM
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Ajax Gotchas with jQuery and ASP.Net MVC

I’m refactoring an application at the moment that has been throwing out all sorts of surprises and complexities that I just wouldn’t have expected. Often when coding a site or web application, you have a very basic task that you want to
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Phil
tags: development ajax asp.net-mvc jquery
Feb 12 2010 03:25 PM
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Quick Hits – jQuery.Map()

This post is the first in a series that looks at some of the less-popular jQuery functions and describes practical uses for them. In each brief post, I’ll outline a problem or situation and look at how I used a jQuery function to provide a quick and easy
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Phil
tags: development jquery asp.net-mvc jquery ui
Feb 11 2010 12:40 PM
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Serializing Entity Framework Objects into JSON Using ASP.Net MVC

I’ve been working with the Entity Framework 4 on a new MVC2 application recently and one apparently simple task had been doing my head in for a full day. The problem was when I tried to serialize a list entity object using the Json method in a
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Phil
tags: development ajax asp.net-mvc json
Feb 05 2010 12:27 AM
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Retire IE6 - No More Excuses!

As sketchy details begin to emerge about Microsoft’s work on its latest version of Internet Explorer, the time has finally come for companies to prepare to dispose of IE6; the universally despised browser that has caused web developers the world
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Phil
tags: software business browser internet explorer
Dec 20 2009 01:15 PM
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10 Notable HTML5 Resources

Usually I’m not given to doing Letterman-style lists of topics, but I’m getting really interested and involved in HTML5 at the moment and there are a number of really good resources out there for those looking to learn more about this
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Phil
tags: development html html5 standards
Dec 05 2009 07:35 AM
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Taking Advantage of HTML5 Today

I was asked in a formal situation recently, “If you were to build a new web site from scratch, which doctype would you use?”. Me: “Commercial site for a customer?” “Just a site for the open web” “Well, then I
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Phil
tags: development software browser css
Nov 28 2009 06:56 AM
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Deploying ASP.Net MVC Applications to Your Hosted Environment

I found myself in a very frustrating position last week as I tried to deploy my first ASP.Net MVC application to my own hosted web server. If you’re building MVC apps for in-house use or for deployment to servers over which you have full control,
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Phil
tags: development asp.net-mvc deployment hosting web development
Nov 19 2009 11:54 AM
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Working With Tables in jQuery

Possibly one of the most frustrating or confusing tasks a developer may find is retrieving information from within a table. Getting references to cells, rows and columns often seems like it should be a doddle with jQuery, but getting just the right
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Phil
tags: development css html jquery tables
Sep 19 2009 09:05 AM
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IE8 Developer Tools Need Love Too!

I attended a Microsoft Unplugged session the other day where Giorgio Sardo presented a discussion on creating cross-browser compatible websites using IE8’s Developer Tools and Expression Web SuperPreview. While I went in as a skeptical developer
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Phil
tags: development software internet explorer standards tools
Sep 19 2009 08:58 AM
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Practical Applications for the jQuery Data() Function

In one of my previous posts, I looked at some of the lesser known and understood features of the jQuery library. Included among them was the data() function, which allows you to set and get values at a named point associated with a DOM element. An
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Phil
tags: development jquery tips and tricks web development
Sep 14 2009 04:44 PM
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jQuery's Undiscovered Country

I was tasked recently with presenting to other developers in my business unit at The Office on advanced jQuery techniques. Not your bleeding-edge, hard-core type of complex development; rather the lesser-known time savers that go beyond your basic AJAX
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Phil
tags: development jquery tips and tricks web development
Aug 31 2009 05:28 PM
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Microsoft Word Styles : You're Doing it Wrong

If, like so many others, a large portion of your work revolves around writing, editing or reviewing Microsoft Word documents, then you need to have a very strong understanding of how Styles work. Styles are designed to make it easier for you to achieve
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Phil
tags: business best-practice documents microsoft office styles
Aug 29 2009 04:34 PM
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Discovering Microformats

I don’t know why I haven’t looked at this sooner – probably because I’m so busy being distracted by all sorts of other interesting things that I’m finding out there at the moment, but I’m finally discovering
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Phil
tags: development microformats semantic web ux web content
Aug 28 2009 04:05 PM
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Definition Lists Deserve More Respect

I’m willing to bet you don’t use the Definition List much. In fact, I’d even go so far as to say you don’t use them at all. But the humble <dl> element is actually one of the most useful list formats
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Phil
tags: development css html semantic web standards
Aug 11 2009 03:01 PM
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Populating Table Data using jQuery

There was an enhancement on the backlog at The Office this month where we needed to show a table of up to four products from a list of up to ten alternatives. The user would select the four desired products to compare from a checkbox list and the details
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Phil
tags: at work development css html jquery
Aug 10 2009 05:07 PM
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Social Networking and Professional Development

I was recently doing a search on Social Networking on Stack Overflow and this question came up. The accepted answer is a good one, to be sure, but I think it misses an important aspect – personal development and industry inside knowledge. When
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Phil
tags: development social networking business
Jul 27 2009 12:59 AM