Although I have been guilty of such in the past, I have to come to the point where I will avoid creating a UI client for a business process if it is at all possible.
Back in February and March I was in the process of developing a back-end process to manage a certain subset of […]
The warning prompt; the last ditch effort to make a user aware of an action they are about to take. Yet over the years we, as developers, have thrown up so many warnings, cautions, and advisories, that users really do not take notice. So how do you secure an application button from inadvertent clicking? […]
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 […]
His vector graphics Javascript library is one of the easiest to work with and now Walter has surpassed himself with the easiest Tooltip / Help bubble javascript library.
I first used Walter’s Work with my Javascript AJAX testing application where his vector graphics module made client-side charting a piece of cake. Recently when I was […]
Database triggers are a great thing, and using them to create an audit trail is pretty simple. Yet when you want to pass some custom values to the triggers, like user name when you are using a single DB login for your application, things get tricky.
In the process of building a robust audit trail for […]
The Yahoo User Interface libraries are now at version 2.3.0 with six new features.
* Rich Text Editor
* Base CSS
* YUILoader
* ImageLoader
* ColorPicker
* YUI Test Utility
* Skins
I am […]
As a creator of business applications, I always need to be cognizant of how a user interacts with my applications, and even more so when the application is being ported from an older version. In the world of browser development, matching the keyboard shortcuts that users have come to rely on in window based […]
Alot of heads down code work with our Sharepoint Content Management application, so from that comes alot of lessons learned. Why seven? Because it is lucky, and that is all I got (which is enough!!!).
Besides a few quirky issues, I am pleased with the ASP.NET Ajax ToolKit, and I definitely find value in how […]
How many Microsoft developers does it take fix a light bulb? None, they just declare darkness to be the new standard. <rant=enabled >
I mentioned in a previous post that I was having some fun with the new AJAX.NET toolkit extensions, but that was with a stand-alone ASP.NET project. While coming back into […]
Although I have been somewhat under-impressed by the ASP.NET AJAX library, I have been pleasantly surprised by the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, and especially with the masked edit boxes.
The idea behind the masked edit boxes is to provide a visual queue to the user as to how their input should look. This visual queue […]