Web Standards – a good thing, but won’t help with SEO
Update 30 June 2009: Added a couple of links at the end of this post for additional information from some recent research/experimenting. Web standards is generally a good thing. When done well, it can...
View ArticleCSS: inner elements breaking border-radius
On this page: The problem The solution Update: Translation to Ukranian Browsers such as Firefox 2+ and Webkit-based browsers (Chrome, Safari) support the useful css border-radius feature (via...
View ArticleXSLT Performance tip: don’t indent output
On this page: Summary: turn off xsl output indenting How is XSLT output indent turned off? What kind of savings do you get? Why can this make such a difference? But doesn’t this make the output harder...
View ArticleFirefox 4 change: input type image only submits x and y, not name when...
On this page: The problem change Example What does W3C spec say? Update: not a bug Workarounds (This post is partly a note to self, and a place to further describe the Firefox bug I raised.) Update:...
View ArticleSEOMoz’s intro to SEO
This is a great intro to SEO from SEOMoz: Introduction to SEO View more presentations from randfish. More info from the original SEOMoz blog post.
View ArticleBlog restart
Apart from a handful of posts in 2010 and 2009 I haven’t really blogged much since 2008. Unfortunately it has been a bad combination of a number of personal tragedies, being too busy at work, and lack...
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Book: Ext.NET Web Application Development
On this page: Get the book Discount codes for the book What is Ext.NET? About the book Chapter overviews Samples photos How I ended up writing a book on Ext.NET Shifting focus to highly interactive...
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Ext.NET 2 Released plus Ext.NET Book Discount
On this page: Ext.NET 2 released Ext.NET is promoting my book Discount codes to purchase the book on its own Ext.NET 2 released Ext.NET 2 has just been officially released by Ext.NET. It is a great...
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Ext JS TabPanel plugin for draggable tabs
On this page: Demo Subclass or Plugin? The Code Original subclass refactored into a plugin The accompanying DropTarget to implement the drop behaviour CSS for the drop arrow Example usage Limitations...
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SignalR with Ext.NET
I’ve just published a blog post over at Ext.NET about using SignalR with Ext.NET What is SignalR? Checkout this great video from Scott Hanselman: In the video there is an example there of a stock...
View ArticleExt.NET Ajax Requests: MVC, Web API or ASHX?
On this page: TL;DR version In more detail Test your own scenario When I wrote the book on Ext.NET 2, I often described using ASHX or MVC Controllers (amongst other techniques) for getting data from...
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Special offer: My Ext.NET book for $5 until 8th Jan 2016
Hi. Just a note that Packt Publishing, the publisher of my Ext.NET Web Application Development book, is running a massive sale campaign. All books, including mine, at $5 (in UK it is £4) until 8th Jan...
View ArticleHTTPS on this site
Not blogged here for what seems like an eternity! Finally got round to enabling HTTPS everywhere for this site. It was quite simple thanks to Dreamhost’s support for Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates....
View ArticleTweaking our Nancy unit tests to run in 5 minutes instead of 40
On this page: TL;DR version: We value fast, automated tests Nancy framework has a handy Browser testing component Server side UI test execution time was slowing down dramatically Solution: use...
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Why don’t academic papers follow online readability guidelines?
On this page: How do people read on the Web? The problem is everywhere Augment long-form content with shorter blog posts? Epilogue I recently came across a really interesting paper from Cambridge...
View ArticleAcademic papers readability follow up
Back in 2019 I wrote the post, Why don’t academic papers follow online readability guidelines?. I noted issues like huge walls of text preventing readability, lack of bullet points and other features...
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