Absolute Positioning inside of a Relative Element with CSS

published 8 months, 1 day ago, submitted by rstrahl 8 months, 4 days ago

west-wind.com — Getting elements positioned absolutely inside of a container is not terribly obvious and not very discoverable using CSS. But it can make for a cool effect and is a useful feature for many overlay type operations in Html markup. Here's an example of a hover over delete button that pops up on focus of an element. read more...

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HttpHandlers

codebetter.com — A pretty useable article on how to use HTTP Handlers and why not. read more...

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Refactoring: Replacing Enums with the Strategy Pattern

published 1 year, 1 month ago, submitted by jeremyjarrell 1 year, 1 month ago

jeremyjarrell.com — Here's a simple way to remove all of those ugly switch statements and enums and to buy yourself a little more flexibility and testability as an added bonus! read more...

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Why You Should NOT Use Microsoft Unit Testing Framework

vaultofthoughts.net — Description of a major flaw in the Microsoft's unit testing framework that makes it useless for anything but smallest projects. Read it or you will be sorry! read more...

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Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

hanselman.com — Scott Hanselman, that uber technologist, updates his must have list of power tools for developers. read more...

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Why not on by default!? Turn on auto HTML attribute quotes in 2005

published 2 years, 3 months ago, submitted by phayman 2 years, 3 months ago

geekzilla.co.uk — Holy cow! Why wasn't this on by default??? How annoying is it that when typing in the HTML Source editor window Visual Studio doesn't add the "" for you automatically... well guess what? It's a setting. read more...

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Source Control: Anything But SourceSafe

published 2 years, 3 months ago, submitted by dalziel 2 years, 3 months ago

codinghorror.com — VSoft, the makers of FinalBuilder, just published the results of their annual customer survey. One of the questions is which version control systems do you currently use, or plan to use, in the next 12 months? The top 9 responses are reprinted here. I'm disheartened to see that Visual SourceSafe is still at the top of the list. If you are serious about the practice of software development, you should avoid SourceSafe. read more...

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