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Posts from ‘June, 2009’

Corvallis .NET Users Group Talk: ASP.NET and jQuery

Tonight I’m presenting “jQuery and ASP.NET” at the Corvallis .NET Users Group June Meeting.
I’ve been having lots of fun developing with jQuery with or without .Net.  My first slide:
What is jQuery?

Lightweight JavaScript library
Fast (http://cli.gs/urQzG7)
Cross-browser
Cross-platform
Enables separation of behavior markup
Easy AJAX
Animation and interation API (events/DOM manipulation)
UI/plugin framework
Fun!

I have posted my jQuery and ASP.NET live demo and [...]

Top 5 Color Tools on the Web

I used to have a rough time coming up with web design color schemes. I would look through the color books in Photoshop and Illustrator and sort-of randomly choose colors that looked good, and do my best to apply the color theory I’ve learned. Problem is, you just can’t get a good sense of the [...]

No iPhone? How To Effectively Use Twitter On Your Mobile Phone

With all of the iPhone buzz over the last few days, I thought I’d give some tips to those of you that don’t have a 3GS in your future. I’ve been using a Sony Eriksson w810i to browse, check facebook, tweet, and generally browse the internet sucessfully for almost 3 years.  This post is for [...]

Make Twitter.com More Useful Than TweetDeck or Twhirl

The first thing I used to say to a Twitter noob was: “Get a Twitter client like TweetDeck or Twhirl because using it on the web sucks”.
After I discovered Troy’s Twitter Script I have a different outlook on the Twitter web client.  It simply does things that my Twhirl or TweetDeck client doesn’t do.  Here [...]