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August 2, 2013 · 5 min read

AJAX without jQuery

When was the last time you wrote an AJAX request? When was the last time you did it without relying on jQuery? In this article we'll look at how do do just that, how do make an AJAX request without jQuery to better understand what's going on.

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April 20, 2009 · 5 min read

LINQ in JavaScript

Let me start by saying that I am aware that there is a LINQ to JavaScript project on Codeplex but this was done by me are more of an achidemic exercise/ challange. So while …

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January 29, 2009 · 2 min read

Comment feeding and more dogfood

Well I've been doing some more changes to my website (and not breaking it... much :P) and I've finally got round to adding a feature that Ruben was nagging for, a comment RSS feed. …

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December 13, 2008 · 1 min read

Microsoft Ajax <3 jQuery

All ASP.NET developers should know by now that Microsoft is officiall supporting jQuery as part of Visual Studio 2008 (and beyond). Well I've finally got to doing a project where …

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November 13, 2008 · 2 min read

Maintaining client sessions

In my recent blog browsing I came across an interesting post from Joel at See Joel Program on maintaining an ASP.NET session within an AJAX application. It's a very good post and …

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October 25, 2008 · 2 min read

When == isn't equal

Earlier this month I did a post about common mistakes made by developers new to JavaScript but there's a point I forgot to cover which I see a lot of. Nearly every language has a …

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August 28, 2008 · 4 min read

Optimising UpdatePanels

So it can be generally agreed that UpdatePanels are evil. Plenty of people have blogged about this, there's a good post here which goes over it in more details. To give a …

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August 28, 2008 · 4 min read

Paging data client side

So in my last post I looked at how to use an UpdatePanel to do data paging and then optimising the HTML to get the best performance from our requests, but it still wasn't optimal. …

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August 13, 2008 · 2 min read

ASP.NET Virtual Earth control

So I was going through my blog feeds the other and came across a post about the CTP release of an ASP.NET Virtual Earth server control (Channel9 video here). I'm doing quite a bit …

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