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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Code review from 10,000 programmers
A recent post to my Telnet80 blog found its way onto the Reddit Programming page. Here is the result: I received just shy of 10,000 visitors over the course of 2 days. Overall lots of great insightful comments. Based on … Continue reading
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Address Validation using the Google Maps API
I’ve never been a fan of address forms that look like this; From a data entry perspective, it forces users to hit TAB constantly. Furthermore, users who are less web savvy will transition between the mouse and the keyboard to … Continue reading
Doing client-side address validation with the Google Maps Geocode API
Update: If you look at the comments down below you’ll see a comment from Thor Mitchell. Thor is the product manager for the Google Maps API. His comment informed me that the technique I demonstrate below (using a server-side proxy … Continue reading
jQuery does not have an ‘exists’ method
As developers, we’ve all solved problems only to forget the solution (and the problem) many months (or years) later. We’re then forced to rediscover the solution to the old challenge. I recently encountered this phenomenon while attempting to use jQuery … Continue reading
Web Governance has moved and cannot be found!
Does your organization have strongly defined trashcan governance methodologies? If not, this could pose a serious risk to your organization’s waste disposal processes. This could result in disease and even death among employees. Trashcan governance helps combat this risk by clearly … Continue reading
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Blogging with Google Docs
Blog posting from Google Docs is very simple to setup, simply click the publish button in Google Docs and follow the instructions. via lgr.ca I just learned that Google Docs supports the MetaWebLog API for publishing docs to a blog. … Continue reading
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Fixing Entity Framework Model-First SQL Express Errors
Microsoft’s Entity Framework 4.0 includes the ability to generate databases from the models being defined. This feature is also sometimes known as forward-mapping (Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM has supported forward-mapping for awhile). This enables developers to start with models, instead of … Continue reading
Turning an internal wiki into public documentation
My co-workers can attest to my love of wiki’s. Specifically, my desire to use wiki’s for product documentation. Wiki’s have set the bar for easy to edit for years. By creating easily editable online documents, Wikipedia managed to surpass respected … Continue reading