Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work with Mozilla? This article covers common issues associated with migrating applications to the open source Mozilla-based browser.
Ajax, is not necessarily new technology, in fact it’s not a single technology, but a group of technologies. Which allow you to build interactive web applications. The recently released Ajax.NET, a free and Open Source library for the .NET framework, will allow you easily include Ajax functionality in ASP.NET. You can read more about it on the Ajax.NET blog.
My first attempt at growing…anything. So here I am documenting my progress. I planted tomatoes and a bell pepper plant in a small area of my backyard.
I have a before and after pictures of the tomatoe plants.
This is a tweak guide for the popular Battlefield 2. This game can be hard on your system, this guide provides tips for smooth play.
I, along with Derek Reynolds, have launched a new tech-oriented site. We ended up posting so many tech stories to our own blogs, we decided just to create a single blog for our technology news.
The Yelling Lizard will be our main blog for technology news. Visit often, hourly even.
This is to remind myself to try out the Script.aculo.us library. It’s suppose to be a organized collection of scripts that will make building Ajax at least somewhat easier.
Ajax seems to be a big part of the whole Web 2.0 trend which even MS is getting into. Despite a recent article listed on ASP.NET bashing Ajax (and it’s Firefox brethren), there are rumors of a MS implementation of Ajax, called Atlas.
Script.aculo.us is a library of easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript to make your web sites and web applications fly, Web 2.0 style. There’s visual effects, drag and drop, instant search results using AJAX and so on - super cool stuff!
Microsoft has released an updated version of the Enterprise Library for download. For those that don’t know, “[the Enterprise Library] is a library of application blocks designed to assist [.NET] developers with common enterprise development challenges.”
The June 2005 release of Enterprise Library is a minor update of the original January 2005 release. This release contains the same seven Microsoft patterns & practices application blocks, and it incorporates the patches and extensions previously released to the Enterprise Library Community site. In addition, it includes several minor fixes and improvements.
If you are using the January 2005 release of Enterprise Library, and you are worried about the impact of upgrading to this new version, you should not consider this a mandatory upgrade provided you have installed Patch 1475. All of the changes in the June version should help improve the experience of using Enterprise Library, but since most of the fixes only apply to a small number of usage scenarios, you may find that the benefits of the new version do not outweigh the impact of upgrading to the new release. However, for new development, you should use the June 2005 release.
It also seems that it will be a while before we see EL for .NET 2.0.
I recently attended a free first looks seminar for Visual Studio.NET 2005 here in Cincinnati. And while there are a number of improvements, nothing compares the Enterprise Library. This collection is worth it just for the data access and logging improvements. Greatly speeds up development time when building data-driven applications.
There are seven total application blocks, including the data access. The Enterprise Library replaces the individual application blocks that Microsoft was distributing. And it is much easier to implement into your solution.
The application blocks that comprise the Enterprise Library are the following:
- Caching Application Block. This application block allows developers to incorporate a local cache in their applications.
- Configuration Application Block. This application block allows applications to read and write configuration information.
- Data Access Application Block. This application block allows developers to incorporate standard database functionality in their applications.
- Cryptography Application Block. This application block allows developers to include encryption and hashing functionality in their applications.
- Exception Handling Application Block. This application block allows developers and policy makers to create a consistent strategy for processing exceptions that occur throughout the architectural layers of enterprise applications.
- Logging and Instrumentation Application Block. This application block allows developers to incorporate standard logging and instrumentation functionality in their applications.
- Security Application Block. This application block allows developers to incorporate security functionality in their applications. Applications can use the application block in a variety of situations, such as authenticating and authorizing users against a database, retrieving role and profile information, and caching user profile information.
A chicklet is a small graphic button that you see on everyones’ blogs. Usually for XML or RSS feeds or too promote a piece of software. Such as Firefox or Thunderbird. Well now you can make your own chicklet for your site.
These types of images are good, because they are small, and typically bloggers don’t mind placing a lot of chicklets of their site. They can be good non-intrusive form of advertising.
Banner ads are dead, long live chicklets!
An organized Flickr photo collection of London’s terrorist attack on July 7, 2005.
As of this writing there is over 500 photos in the Flickr pool.
A friend of mine, Derek Reynolds, was recently lamenting the non-existent spell checker for Wordpress. Due to a missing php library from his host, no spell check plugin would work. Well here’s the solution to his problem and possibly yours.
Google has released a toolbar for Firefox. Embedded in the toolbar is a spell checker that will check all the form fields on the current page. If it finds something it thinks is misspelled, it will highlight it in red. But that’s not all. You can click on the word and it will offer suggestions. Now how cool is that?
It’s not just for English either, it does German, Spanish, French, and more.
Other than that it’s just like the toolbar for I.E. excepts it’s missing the popup blocker. Since Firefox already has a excellent popup blocker, there was no need to add one. Also the spell check feature maybe in the Google toolbar for I.E. But I wouldn’t know, I use Firefox.
So I hope you are happy now Derek.
