Category Archives: Technology

Looking for a good ASP.Net front-end developer in New York City

A client I’ve been working with is looking for a front-end ASP.Net developer to work on-site for them in their New York City (midtown) office.
The right candidate should be able to:

develop a complex ASP.Net solution using WebForms;
create web markup (HTML/CSS) from Photoshop mockups;
use ASP.Net Ajax, jQuery, or other client-side solutions, and know when to use [...]

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Want a better Menu adapter? Send me your menus!

As part of the rewrite of the ASP.Net Control Adapters (see the Google project at http://code.google.com/p/aspnetcontroladapters), I started working on a new Menu adapter. It’s got a long way to go — and you can help me get there!
The best way to engineer proper adapted menu markup is to visualize how the non-adapted Menu generates [...]

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Cleaning up the GridView’s EmptyDataTemplate (damn those tables!)

A project I’ve been working on makes frequent use of the ASP.Net GridView. However, as many people know, the GridView has one glaring issue: It wraps your <EmptyDataTemplate> in an HTML table — something that I don’t want, for two reasons:

My empty data template does not consist of tabular data.
My stylesheet has a default style [...]

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Outlining textbox input fields (and getting it to work in IE)

While using Google GMail today, I noticed that they put a blue highlighting around the text input boxes when they have input focus. It’s a nice touch that makes it just a bit easier for users to identify which field their typing in. (Safari users, of course, get this on all web sites out of [...]

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MochaHost: Subpar service and support

In exploring alternatives for low-cost hosting providers, I did some research and decided to give MochaHost a shot. They seemed to offer reasonably-priced plans with a solid set of features and a 30-day money backguarantee — can’t go wrong there.
After getting the confirmation e-mail that my account was set up, I went in, created a [...]

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