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  • Facebook is down!

    As of approx. October 6, 12:30 AM EST GMT -5 Facebook HTTP services seemed to have gone down. Ping tests were successful during this time, however, attempts to load the website resulted in timeouts. More updates tomorrow morning after some… Continue reading

  • Using jQuery and ScriptManager to update dynamic page elements

    I recently came across a situation where an element on the page was not updating dynamically after post backs. It was quick and easy to add an update panel and the necessary logic to use the built in asp .Net… Continue reading

  • Get Current Page Name in ASP .NET

    The code snippet below is a quick, easy to use function which allows you to get the current active page in an asp .net website/application. There are similar functions for getting header information about a page, however, after some research… Continue reading

  • Why Geeks Should Love the iPad

    After reading a similarly titled article on Forbes, I was inspired to write a counter-argument. The author of the Forbes article implies that the stringent security of the iPad and this line of Apple products is limiting users freedom to… Continue reading

  • Programmatically fire an event handler in ASP .NET

    I recently came across a situation which any web application developer may face where an assembly reference containing the code-behind for each ASPX page was deprecated and the original source code was no longer available. Since this code also includes… Continue reading

  • Javascript Security

    Little code snippet a colleague of mine stumbled across.. Go to any site, then in the address line of your browser for that site, replace the entire URL with the code below. Watch as you can now edit any content… Continue reading

  • The Truth About Microsoft

    I must admit, I haven’t been the largest fan of Microsoft products and policies. (With the exclusion of Visual Studio and the .NET and XNA platforms.. and Silverlight and Excel…) However, it’s very easy to jump on the “anti-MS bandwagon”… Continue reading

  • The “Iron man interface”

    While researching some technical and design patents, I stumbled across a very cool/interesting little patent reminiscent of something you might see in one of the recent “Iron Man” movies. Although “Tony Stark”, especially in his latest installment, is working with… Continue reading

  • Disable button on AJAX Postback

    Many different implementations exist for disabling a button on AJAX post-back. I find the following code snippet to be very simple, clear and effective. Although this example applies to ASP. NET, with small modification this would work for PHP as… Continue reading

  • Beyond Compare

    If you’re a web developer managing multiple websites and web-applications, you are probably already comfortable with an application or set of applications and scripts for uploading and changing content. If you’re up for trying new things however, try out this… Continue reading