Friday, January 23, 2009
John
Norton
Developer
Sometimes you just can’t figure it out on your own. That list picture that doesn’t want to play nice and line up. Boy, have I got a browser for you!
It’s been around long enough to fire a nerve in your brain when I mention Firefox. The open-source poster boy that slowly steals Internet Explorer uses with every fun new feature is more that a pretty face you know. Hidden among the countless pointless add-ons there’s hope for the developers yet. More...
Posted by John on Friday, January 23, 2009 at 3:24 PM in From the Dev Team
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
John
Norton
Developer
What better way to spend the holidays than buried in new and exciting code?! I’m talking about JavaScript here. JavaScript has come a long way in the past few years, especially with its integration with the ASP.NET framework, AJAX. But as you’re plugging away, I’d like to share with you some ways to get around my favorite Internet Explorer bug.More...
Posted by John on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 1:22 PM in From the Dev Team
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
John
Norton
Developer
So this week we had a client come to us with a challenging request. They wanted a Phish filter on their blog to filter out vulgar words. I spent a few hours searching to see if someone had already written an extension for BlogEngine.Net, but couldn’t find one! So after a Google search and ten minutes of “that’s a real word?!”, I began writing a phish filter. More...
Posted by John on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 11:49 AM in From the Dev Team
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
John
Norton
Developer
Hooray for Windows! No, I’m not about to bash Microsoft..I’m thankful for a different kind of window. Back when the use of windows first hit that threshold where multiple windows was a reality, they made use of a cool little thing called the “modal window”. This is an application window which forces a user to do something with it before they resume what they were doing. It prevents the user from touching anything else until they’ve appealed to the window's needs.
Now I’m not sure when it was, but recently there has been a big breakthrough in web, popup-like windows.
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Posted by John on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 at 9:34 PM in From the Dev Team
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