June 2009 Blog Posts

  • Better JavaScript class generation

    For years, I have been espousing how great Script# is. I often do an advanced MS ASP.NET Ajax client talk and end it with a Script# talk. Mainly because I think that the idea of learning the nuances of JavaScript OO techniques can be a little confusing. It’s really the challenge (All you need to do is search the archives of my blog and you’ll see my own confusion on this topic). I think many web developers can wrap their heads around building the functionality, but making something private/public/static can get a little confusing. Especially if you are used to using...

  • Using the Ajax control toolbox with jQuery (and ASP.NET MVC)

    [Here’s a preview of something I’m going to show Thursday night at the Tampa MVC group.] You may have thought that by jumping on ASP.NET MVC that you have to leave behind all the cool Ajax Control Toolbox controls.. or more than likely you realize that it’s possible to use them, but one has to be a “JavaScript Rocket Scientist” to use them.. It’s really not, but you do need a couple things to use them.. First of all go here (Bertrand Le Roy’s blog) and pick up the jQuery plugin that let’s you instantiate MS Ajax Behaviors. Next go here to...

  • Tampa ux… Meeting tomorrow night (Wed. June 10th, 2009).. 7:30pm

    We are meeting at Buffalo Wild Wings across the street from our normal location tomorrow night. If you have had any complaints or suggestions about how we run Tampa UX, you need to be there. It’s an important meeting. We have some ideas that we want to run by you guys and see what you guys think.. We can’t do this without you!

  • clientscript as the view controller

    I’m finalizing my demos for next week’s talk at the Tampa ASP.NET MVC user group. I’m also in the midst of a deploy to our test servers of among other things a page that is an experimental architecture for me and my team. I was talking with my boss (Perry for those of you who attend Tampa UX). He had to do a little touch up on my quickly thrown together UI. He told me after playing with it that he really liked how it performs and even how it works. He thinks it’s a pretty good UX. It’s actually very...