Resetting IE9's Javascript Engine
Quick post this time - lately I've come across this obscure error in Javascript with Internet Explorer 9 whenever I tried to run a jQuery ligthbox script: appendChildOriginal(element); jscript debugger...
View ArticleConditionally disabling Ajax in MVC3 Forms
While working with MVC3 and Razor views recently, we came across the need to disable the Ajax behaviour in a form when the user pressed a certain submit button. To give you some background, we were...
View ArticleBlog 4 Umbraco Extensions Documentation
Finally, some 8 months after the Blog4Umbraco Extensions library became available, I decided to post it to the package repository onour.umbraco.org and create some actual documentation for it - this is...
View ArticleHigh School Students and the Internet - not just consumers
Yesterday I met with the local High School to discuss the possibilities of getting involved by running programs for interested students in the areas of web and games development. During the course of...
View ArticleThe Playground - interactive Canvas goodness
We've just created a Playground for testing out Javascript and the Canvas tag with Raphaël and EaselJS... At the moment, we're still loading example code to use with the playground, however there is...
View ArticleIntroducing the Umbraco View Counter
Over the last couple of days we've been busy creating an Umbraco package that deals with Content View Counters - it enables the web master to track the number of times content has been viewed on the...
View ArticleWindows 8 DP with Boot Camp 4.0
UPDATE 1st March 2012: Installing Boot Camp 4.0 has been verified to work with Windows 8 Consumer Preview that has just been released.Today I downloaded the Apple Boot Camp 4.0 using the BootCamp...
View ArticleRetrieving DropDownList Values in Razor or C#
Recently I needed to update the value of an Umbraco DropDownList property in code based on a value instead of the key that's automatically assigned by the Prevalue Editor. I came acrossthis but it...
View ArticleReply: How not to use Linq
Recently (well, today) the CodeProject Insider featured a blog entry - How not to use Linq. It was a short but interesting artile that prompted me to write a comment but alas no comments can be...
View ArticleContent Summaries with HtmlAgilityPack
Recently I had a client ask me to modify their Blog page to list only the first paragraph and the first image found in each of their posts instead of the full post on the default Blog Post List.The...
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