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Absolute Positioning inside of a Relative Element with CSS

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:16:03 GMT

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.

First Look At Silverlight 2

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Scott Gu annouces Silverlight 2 and describes a sample application that should be of interest to anyone developing web applications to consume data from public APIs.

HttpHandlers

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:31:02 GMT

A pretty useable article on how to use HTTP Handlers and why not.

VS2008 / .NET 3.5 Training Kit

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:16:05 GMT

Microsoft have just released a training kit for VS2008 and .Net 3.5 to get everyone up to speed. It includes powerpoint presentations, hands-on labs etc.

Refactoring: Replacing Enums with the Strategy Pattern

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:46:07 GMT

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!

.NET Framework 3.0 Is Out the Door!

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:01:04 GMT

Microsoft officially released .NET 3.0

Why You Should NOT Use Microsoft Unit Testing Framework

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:01:01 GMT

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!

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

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:31:01 GMT

Hanselman lists his top 10 indispensable tools & products for development, plus 5 from his list last year that got knocked out.

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

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:31:01 GMT

Scott Hanselman, that uber technologist, updates his must have list of power tools for developers.

WATIR for .NET

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:31:01 GMT

WatiN stands for Web Application Testing in dotNet. Inspired by Watir, WatiN enables web application testing, through Internet Explorer on a Windows platform, expressed in any .Net language.

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

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:01:02 GMT

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.

Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1 Released

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:31:01 GMT

From the better late than never department, Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1. Oh well, I guess it's the next best thing to 2005 SP1...

Source Control: Anything But SourceSafe

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:31:01 GMT

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.