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Archive for August, 2008

WebSlices, evolution of RSS?

August 27th, 2008

In the upcoming new version of Internet Explorer 8, which is in public Beta 1 right now, there’s support for a new technique called WebSlices. Is this yet another proprietary feature of Microsoft or is it a really useful evolution of RSS that will be adopted as a web standard? Since it follows the patterns [...]

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Looping with jQuery

August 21st, 2008

I’ve started working with the Javascript framework jQuery lately and I must say that I find it very enjoyable! I have previously mostly used Prototype and DOMAssistant, and although they excel in some areas I somehow find jQuery more fun to code with. Here’s a simple tip on how to loop through elements with jQuery [...]

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ASP.NET MVC Preview Release 4

August 11th, 2008

To my delight I noticed that during my vacation the ASP.NET MVC Preview Release 4 have been released. This is nice since I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this framework for a project I’m currently working on. The MVC framework certainly solves a lot of the issues I have with ASP.NET and actually [...]

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Survey for makers of websites

August 8th, 2008

Last year A list apart did a survey for people who make websites. The purpose of the survey is to give an image of how our profession is practiced worldwide. 33.000 people took it and the result was made publicly available and is quite an interesting read. This year they’re doing it again and now [...]

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Back from vacation

August 7th, 2008

Why is it that the vacation always feels too short? Just when you’re gotten used to the new lifestyle of late mornings and lazy afternoons you’re thrown back into the hectic life of hardcore web development. My vacation have been really great. Me and my girlfriend started of with a week of hiking in the [...]

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