Development Ideas and Ramblings
OK that was goofy. But it shouldn’t distract from Goijko’s post describing his experience of using Selenium and Fitnesse together to run some very nice functional tests of web sites. To me this is a great example because software testing can be a bit of a chore. Sure unit tests are nice, but how often [...]
dnrTV has a very nice episode full of information on using Debug.Writeline and Trace Statements to help debug applications. I continue to be blown away occassionally by the depth of Scotts knowledge.
Watch the show here
This is really very useful in larger sites. Now I only wonder if having a SiteMap provider can increase SEO. It even includes a nice little example of SQL 2005 cache dependency
The one drawback to site navigation is that XmlSiteMapProvider is the one and only site map provider included in the box with ASP.NET 2.0, [...]
Codeproject article on serializing a custom class (Via Frans Bouma)
Another drop in the CSS Friendly Adapter Toolkit. Its a nice way of changing the html/css output for server controls.It brings their output more in line with current CSS practices.
Ryan Farley discusses RSS Feeds in IE and Vista. Both have built in FeedReader classes.
Scott [...]
My collection of interesting links has been growing for weeks and I haven’t had the time to post them. So here they are in one massive list.
Daniel Zeiss is on rev 9 of his major Ajax framework comparison. Great stuff.
Today I installed ScrewTurn Wiki in 10 minutes (as opposed to an hour for [...]
Via Jason Haley – WebServiceStudio, a small utility program that can be used to test web services interactively. Might be fun to try out.
Poor Man’s Camtasia . Yes Software produces a screenshot animation tool that costs only $50..00 and can be used to produce software demo’s and training snippets.
AJAX and the market saturation of [...]
Remember the jingle during Michael Jordan’s days? “I wanna be like Mike..” Well as many links as I’ve been posting I think I wanna be like Mike Gunderloy
Dr. Peter has an article that delves into caching.
Tim Bednar uses FireFox and some extensions to edit css live within the browser – rock on ! [...]
I’ve mentioned that I am working on a code generator. Its quite a bit of fun. And I am purposefully going an “old-school” route by using System.CodeDom.Compiler.IndentedTextWriter to produce text. Yes I know this is NOT the most sexy way of doing things. If I were to follow the advice of people who have blazed [...]
With all of the buzz about Ruby on Rails and AJAX, not a lot of people have noticed that Microsoft is making another really good run at the web development space. Based on book sales data, it looks like ASP.Net 2.0 is on fire, with ASP-related book sales up 53% since the same period a [...]
Question: We are in the process of developing an application that will be used internally. We have just started coding using Visual Studio 2005. Part of the design uses overloaded functions and methods. This works fine until I start building some Web Services that we need. For some reason I keep getting the error that [...]