I’m often confronted with the need to take a collection of values and transform them into a different set of values. For example, I want to use Twitter’s search API to get a list of tweets on a certain topic. However, I am only interested in retrieving the URLs to the home pages of each ... [More]

Recently I had the need to add some custom processing to the contents of a RadGrid. I decided that the most desirable solution would be to add a menu of options in the footer of the grid, but unfortunately the RadGrid does not support footer templates. I don’t know if this is because there are other... [More]

Most web developers are keenly aware of the browser’s same-origin policy which prevents document elements (including scripts) from accessing elements of a document from a different origin. A document is considered to be of the same origin if it shares the same protocol, port, and host. For exa... [More]

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]

When using the jQuery client library to make an asynchronous call to the server, there are 6 built-in options available to you - $.ajax(), load(), $.get(), $.getJSON(), $.getScript(), and $.post(). The last 5 of them are simply abstractions of the first, using certain default values for the paramete... [More]