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Removing unused CSS Classes from your web application

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:31:14 GMT

2 ways to clean up your Css by removing unused classes.

Development Tools I Use & Recommend

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:16:03 GMT

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below:

ListBox Extension Method for Get and Set Selected Values

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:28:28 GMT

ASP.Net ListBox control allows two types of selection mode: single and multiple. Working in single selection mode is similar to working with DropDown list control. Use ListBox.SelectedValue to get the value that was selected by a user. In order to set a selection SelectedIndex property can be used or Selected property of a particular item should be set to true.

BlogEngine Flaws

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:01:10 GMT

Recently I've been having problems as the site has gotten more popular I've had comments and even posts disappearing randomly, sometimes re-appearing you might have experienced this yourself either on my site or in your own so after divulging into the code to see what was happening found something I thought was shocking. When you add a comment, or Rating, Approving and Remove Comments this is what BlogEngine DbBlogProvider actually does...

Web developers. You suck.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:46:05 GMT

Well, JavaScript developers, specifically. In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back. To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet. No, I'm not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better.

Get Checked Repeater Items Extension Method

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:46:12 GMT

Imagine you have a list of some items and checkboxes next to each item providing the ability for a user to make multiple choices and submit a result in one go. Weather you are implementing a news groups subscription, user survey or online products catalogue - the code behind is the same: we bind some object list to a data control like Repeater, add a checkbox to every item, set checkbox value to item ID.

SCOPE_IDENTITY() return the id from the database on insert

Fri, 23 May 2008 16:16:03 GMT

As a .NET programmer most of my time is spent coding in C# and I try to avoid writing SQL where possible. Recently I had to write an insert stored procedure and needed to return the ID of the row I was inserting. While writing my usual bad SQL I came across a fascinating function I've never used before, SCOPE_IDENTITY().

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:46:04 GMT

public beta of upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases is published

A C# Operator I would like to see.

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:46:03 GMT

You could argue there are too many operators in C# as it is; however, I feel having an acute knowledge of the available operators is like knowing CTRL + B will bold the selected text in most word processing software. To put it simply, it hurts no-one, whilst providing shortcuts to advanced users...

Implementing Generic Caching

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:46:02 GMT

I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications - and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem.