- // Posted on Apr 21, 2008 by
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After four days of ASP.NET AJAX training with Stephen Walther I set out to learn more about my options in choosing a solution for a JavaScript/Ajax framework. If I realized days later I would be writing this comprehensive post on 7 of the most popular frameworks, I may have just went with the "Inny-Minny-Miney-Moe" method! I decided to share my research, analysis, links, resources, and personal grade for each of the frameworks compared - jQuery, YUI, Prototype, Dojo, MooTools, Ext JS, and Script.aculo.us. I put together a comparison matrix to illustrate where many of the frameworks differ.
What do you use in your applications, and, more importantly, would you recommend it?
- // Posted on Feb 27, 2008 by
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As promised I am back this week with my weekly toolbox links where I share various links to tools, websites, code, news, and more. In recent weeks I have focused on one particular theme, however I have a few tools, a few code samples, and a few developer links this week. Enjoy!
As always, feel free to submit toolbox suggestions to ddouglass@gmail.com.
- // Posted on Feb 12, 2008 by
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I know I said last week I was not going to post this week's links until Wednesday, but since I have already put together the list I might as well share! This week I'll be focusing on Windows Tools that help make our lives as developers easier. I have personally use (or have used) all of these tools and I stand by my recommendations!
Do you have any utilities to add to the list??
- // Posted on Feb 8, 2008 by
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In my previous post I announced an extension for BlogEngine.NET that utilized a rich Silverlight application called Slide.Show built by Vertigo. It was one of three products in their ".Show" line - the other two being Video.Show and Family.Show. I'm only going to discuss the first two as I plan to focus on the media sharing applications offered by Vertigo. Both applications are open source (available for download on CodePlex) and are cross broswer compatible (IE 6 and 7, Firefox 2, and Safari 3).
- Slide.Show - Slide.Show shows off some of the latest Silverlight technologies while also providing an elegant and simple photo sharing user experience.
- Video.Show - Show provides Silverlight 1.0 video controls, Silverlight Streaming hosting integration, leveraging Expression Encoder's ability to handle most popular video formats. We’ve set things up so you can be uploading videos within minutes, and we’ve added in some cool features like time-based video comments, so your comments will be synchronized with the video playback.
- // Posted on Feb 7, 2008 by
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I've wanted to build a BlogEngine.NET extension to display a photo gallery since I first starting using this product. Vertigo has made my job easier with Slide.Show, a rich Silverlight application that provides an elegant and simple photo sharing user experience. It also supports direct Flickr integration that I have included as a part of this extension. All you have to do is change one configuration value in the configuration.xml and you are all set to hook into your Flickr account.
A live demo can be found at http://dannydouglass.com/page/photogallery.aspx. My website offers a popup version of this gallery (click the "photos" tab above) that I would be glad to explain in a follow-up post if there is any interest. [Requires Silverlight 1.0]
- // Posted on Feb 5, 2008 by
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This is the first in my series of posts to my toolbox (links and resources) generally focused on Windows, ASP.NET Development, Handy Websites, Blogging Resources, and much more. Feel free to send an email with any resources you would like to share!
Today's links are focused on Subversion Hosting Solutions that offer common functionality such as source control, bug/issue tracking, comparison tools, and more...
- // Posted on Jan 31, 2008 by
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For years I have found useful tools & tricks from online collections of links and resources and I recently decided I wanted to be able to easily do this in BlogEngine.NET. Much like the QuickerLinks extension from ckincincy I envisioned collecting my links in one centralized area and being able to easily distribute them through posts. However, I also had a few other features in mind...
- Link Categories
- Link Category Descriptions
- Link Descriptions
- Centralized Links Toolbox Page
Enter my new Toolbox extension! You can view a live example of this extension on
my toolbox page.
- // Posted on Jan 28, 2008 by
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I was catching up on the news I missed this weekend while attending a hockey tournament that left me sore and disappointed when I came across a story from ESPN.com announcing the release of the NFL widgets. Despite that poor timing (the season ends in less than a week), these widgets are pretty dang cool. I have embedded the NFL Top Story Widget at the bottom of this post to show an example.
- // Posted on Jan 24, 2008 by
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After just releasing a social bookmarking extension that included a generic user control and BlogEngine.net version I stumbled across a new widget provided by AddThis.com. I had noticed the widget on sites like dezinerfolio and a post on a game being delayed from ign.com, but never really looked into it. Well, turns out the beat me to the punch and offer a nice little service that allows you to create an account and grab a widget for RSS feeds and/or social bookmarks for individual posts. They offer several different button styles, and even a javascript dropdown-style beta widget which you see on each of my blog posts at DannyDouglass.com. Take a look at the different button styles that are offered...
- // Posted on Jan 15, 2008 by
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I set out early today to add a few social bookmarking links to my blog, but then decided that I'd take this task one step further and create an extension for BlogEngine.NET. I also created a generic version that will allow you to plug this code (via a UserControl) into your blog as long as you have control over the source code. The extension is very configurable and allows you to choose between several different ways to display them. The image included in the full post shows an example of each of the display types. Another nice feature with the extension is that you can decide which links to display and the order they appear - all which can be configured with the new Extension Manager featured in version 1.3. All images are obviously included in the download.
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