Ajax View: Remotely Monitoring Web 2.0 Applications
Today Microsoft demoed their AjaxView application in one of the Mix07 sessions. It acts as a proxy and monitors requests, as well as execution time for each javascript function that gets executed....
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Earlier today (some would say way too early after a long night at Pure) I attended the session "How to make AJAX Applications scream on the client". This turned out to be more about general patterns...
View ArticleSilverlight managed code vs. JavaScript
I finally had a chance to play with Silverlight today. The managed code capabilities is very interesting, so I set out to create a simple performance tester. I created two basic managed methods in...
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Profanity usage
Inspired by xkcd, here's my take on it as a javascript developer:My Profanity Usage by BrowserTo be fair to the numbers above, I first of all base my JavaScript on the Microsoft AJAX client library, so...
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Tools I use for JavaScript and AJAX development
Below is a list of some of my most used features in various web developer tools. The tools can do so much more than I described here. Many of the features are somewhat hidden, so perhaps there’s a few...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2008 JavaScript Intellisense…
…well maybe not for webcontrol users. One of the most spoken-of features of Visual Studio 2008/Orcas is the new JavaScript Intellisense that helps the client-side developer. I’m very excited about...
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Checking browser version in IE8
IE8 comes with an "Emulate IE7" button, which will revert the page back to run as IE7. This is great for developers who can quickly test their apps in both versions (I just wish we could have an IE6...
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Internet Explorer 8 whitepapers
I was looking into some of the IE8 issues we are having, and found this great site full of Microsoft white papers on IE8. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ie8whitepapers There are a lot of nice tips and...
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