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How to easily get rid of Vista and install XP

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

I gave it a chance, but my patience wore out. Vista is no more on my laptop, back to XP pro, but the trip was bumpy and filled with alot of pinched foreheads.

In my scenario, I had an XP Pro ISO which when I made bootable, and attempted to boot and install, was missing […]

ASP.NET Web Services from Javascript with jQuery (without the ScriptManager)

Friday, November 28th, 2008

How to get AJAX functionality out of your ASP.NET web pages, without the javascript bloat of the ScriptManager / Ajax.NET.

Calling web services from javascript with ASP.NET was made easy with the ScriptManager object, but that has the nasty habit of adding over 100k of javascript just by its mere inclusion. Such a price to pay […]

Sharepoint is the new Lotus Notes.

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Could their ever be a more flame-worthy title? Yet, what makes Sharepoint the new Notes is not only what is does well, but also what it does not do well.

Those that have read my work over the past few years know that I am an ex-IBM Lotus Notes consultant/developer that has had alot of recent […]

Drag and Drop Data Entry

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

A recent need at work was to find a way for assist users in data entry tasks so as to help eliminate common data entry mistakes (transposition, wrong data, etc..). Although copying and pasting was the first thought, we eventually decided to use drag and drop technology.

The scenario is something like this; we get […]

Is AJAX.NET worth it?

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

With our application go-live scheduled for this Monday, I am entering a retrospective mood on everything that we have accomplished, and the hurdles that hurt us. Although scope-creep is always the most painful hurdle, I would place the implementation model of Microsoft’s AJAX.NET as a solid second place pain in my butt.

With AJAX technologies […]