• DotNetNuke 6.0.1 Released

    Updated: 2011-08-25 12:55:49
    Register Login Home Projects jQuery WebTour Home Wednesday , August 31, 2011 Home Projects jQuery WebTour DotNetNuke 6.0.1 Released Aug 25 Written : by Joe Brinkman 8 25 2011 6:55 AM I am pleased to announce that DotNetNuke 6.0.1 is officially released . 160 This maintenance release was focused on resolving a number of issues that were found in the 6.0.0 release . 160 Given the extensive set of changes in DotNetNuke 6.0 we recognized the need to quickly identify and resolve issues discovered by our customers as they tried the new release in production environments . 160 This maintenance release further improves what many customers have already told us was a pretty stable release . 160 Below is a summary of the major changes for this release . For more information about a specific issue

  • Experimenting With A Stateful Class For Stateful User Interface (UI) Widgets

    Updated: 2011-08-24 17:00:00
    After going back and forth with Dan G. Switzer, II in the comments of my blog post on Finite State Machines and UI widgets , I wanted to try and factor out the "stateful" aspects of my code into some sort of reusable, lightweight framework. Furthermore, I wanted to create a way for states to have acce ... ead More raquo;

  • Using Four-Sided Positioning In CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

    Updated: 2011-08-22 15:41:00
    Typically, when it comes to positioning elements with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), I am used to using two-sided positioning; that is, I define two of the four offsets on a given element. This is most often "top" and "left"; but, I make frequent use of the "bottom" and "right" offsets as well. Recently, however, as I was going through some of the code that Ryan Jeffords was working on, I noticed that some of his UI (User Interface) elemen ... ead More raquo;

  • Using JQuery to dynamically add form fields to a page

    Updated: 2011-08-18 22:51:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 18 A U G 2011 Using JQuery to dynamically add form fields to a page Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Javascript JQuery I'd seen a few different ways of dynamically adding form fields to a web page but hadn't ever tried it . I was interested in seeing how exactly you can do this at a technical level , but also how you can manage the users interactions , allowing them to keep adding fields as they complete the previously added . ones Firstly lets define a few : goals 1. I want to add new form fields to an existing form , and they must have unique ids . names 2. I want to make sure that a user can keep

  • Treating Complex User Interface (UI) Widgets Like Finite State Machines

    Updated: 2011-08-18 17:11:00
    Yesterday, I looked at treating user interface (UI) widgets like Finite State Machines . In a simple widget, this is rather straightforward as the state of the widget easily defines the morphology of the user interface. In a more complex user interface widget, however, the relationship between the states of the widget and the morphology of its UI is not quite so "fi ... ead More raquo;

  • Using the DotNetNuke Azure Accelerator

    Updated: 2011-08-18 01:52:48
    Register Login Home Projects jQuery WebTour Home Wednesday , August 31, 2011 Home Projects jQuery WebTour Using the DotNetNuke Azure Accelerator Aug 18 Written : by Joe Brinkman 8 18 2011 7:52 AM Late last year , I began work on getting DotNetNuke to run on Windows Azure . 160 After a few months of research and numerous dead-ends , I finally had a fully working prototype . 160 During this same period , David Rodríguez was also doing some work with DotNetNuke and Azure as well . 160 After working through a few dead-ends of his own , David found the Azure Accelerator project from Slalom Consulting and decided to use this as a base for developing a DotNetNuke version . 160 David has extended the original project to include an installation wizard which greatly simplifies the installation

  • Treating User Interface (UI) Widgets Like Finite State Machines

    Updated: 2011-08-17 17:09:00
    Lately, I've been thinking a lot about JavaScript-heavy, thick-client applications and Finite State Machines . I've seen the way that Finite State Machines can take a large, complex tasks and break it down into smaller, much more manageable states. I've even tried to apply this kind of mentality to ... ead More raquo;

  • Super small JQuery / JavaScript image mouseover script

    Updated: 2011-08-16 22:23:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 16 A U G 2011 Super small JQuery JavaScript image mouseover script Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Javascript JQuery I've been developing more and more rich content using JQuery JavaScript and today I spent a little time researching and putting together an image mouseover . script Sure , there are loads of them already , but I really wanted to see how compact and efficient I could get this simple bit of . functionality Ok , so I know i'm going to be loading images based on a mouseover effect , so I don't want to leave the user with a delay when they hover over the item . So the first thing to do is

  • Creating a baseline HTML 5 document

    Updated: 2011-08-14 17:11:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 14 A U G 2011 Creating a baseline HTML 5 document Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Browsers HTML Best practices Browser standards and cutting edge web design are not great bedfellows . I've heard the arguments from creative designers that you have to write specific browser CSS styles to accommodate the multitude of browsers and their own unique way of rendering CSS . I disagree . I firmly believe that with a good understanding of the structure of CSS elements and how they interact with each other you can develop a completely cross-browser non JavaScript baseline template . This article explains how I

  • What's with all the kittens? -Discovering the Easter Eggs in www.wdyl.com

    Updated: 2011-08-11 23:43:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 11 A U G 2011 What's with all the kittens Discovering the Easter Eggs in www.wdyl.com Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Google Javascript Google recently released What do you love' com . It is a site that pulls together a whole raft of services and themes their content based on your search criteria . It performs a book search , video search and a whole load more , you can give it a try here : www.wdyl.com In typical Google fashion they have not left the site in a merely working' state , they have added a whole load of Easter Eggs hidden features This article explores some of them and how they . work

  • Three simple team-working rules

    Updated: 2011-08-10 00:04:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 09 A U G 2011 Three simple team-working rules Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Best practices Project Management There are three relatively simple team working rules that I stick to within the office , and if you are in a team with me I expect you to adhere to them too . These aren't just rules I just get team members to use , I do them myself as well , and I believe they make a massive difference to a team's ability to work well together as a cohesive . unit 1. Asking questions is always ok If something in a brief is not clear , or you need more information about a job ticket , then please ask as

  • I can has cheezburger (Why we?)

    Updated: 2011-08-04 20:45:05
    We received this (unaltered) email this morning. And while we get similar ones constantly, the grammar used in this particular one was simply too atrocious to not share it. Names, email addresses and phone numbers were removed to preserve some dignity. I bets they offers copyrighting service, too Enjoy. ++++ original email ++++ We are a leading [...]

  • Empty SRC And URL() Values Can Cause Duplicate Page Requests

    Updated: 2011-08-04 16:54:00
    Yesterday, I spent a good four hours trying to track down a super frustrating problem. I had a page that needed some additional security features added to it. Basically, I wanted to make sure that once the given page was loaded, only one link on said page could be used. To do this, I stored a random value in the user's session. Then, I would pass that value through each link and compare it to the stored session value. On each target link, I would then clear the random session value, rendering ... ead More »

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