I’m a big fan of jQuery. I’m no expert, but with a copy of jQuery in Action on my desk and Google Bing at my fingertips I can do a lot of cool things with it. One of the ways I often see people using jQuery is to make Ajax requests. jQuery provides a great library which should take care ... [More]

JavaScript is definitely an interesting language. Unlike typical server-side code, we will often sacrifice readability for brevity in order to save a few bytes. Thanks to the many JavaScript compression apps out there, we don’t have to worry about this as much. But there are a few shortcuts I ... [More]

I’m a little late to the party, but I wanted to toss a quick plug to the folks at Telerik for the Beta release of their Q2 2009 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite. If you’re like me and can’t wait another few weeks for the official release, you can download and start playing with t... [More]

The information in this post was written for the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 4, and is subject to change with future releases. A new feature in the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 client library is the Function.validateParameters() method. I say “new,” but it has really been there all along as a th... [More]

The baby just fell asleep, the wife is on a plane to California, and I’ve got some free time. Never mind the big pile of laundry, the dirty dishes, the overgrown lawn, or the growing list of unwatched “Law & Order” episodes on the DVR. It’s time to do some writing! I&r... [More]

If you’ve done any kind of web development, you’ve probably stumbled upon (and hopefully used) the Internet Explorer plugin Web Development Helper (affectionately called WebDevHelper) created by uber-Microsoftie Nikhil Kothari. It’s a great tool for exploring the DOM, tracing HTTP ... [More]