August 2006
Continuing with the theory that everyone lives in Zurich, doing a talk tonight: “Scripters UTF-8 Survival Guide”. More detail here – feel free to drop by (will post the slides... Read More
Get tired of using FindControl() and being tied to an ever-changing control heirarchy? Well, here is a trick for creating strongly-typed Page-level references to controls buried in the various... Read More
If you think the W3C guidelines are your ticket to an accessible site, think again! While the W3C guidelines are important, if you want your web site to be truly accessible, you'll need to venture... Read More
Amy Hoy is the author of a Ruby on Rails- and design-oriented blog, Slash7. I was amazed to see how packed this session was. They propped the doors open, and people were actually standing around... Read More
A. Elein Mustain is a veteran developer of Ingres, Illustra, and Informix, and is the author of the weekly PostgreSQL General Bits column. Elein showed how to use timestamps to keep an audit trail of... Read More
Theo Schlossnagle is a principal at OmniTI Computer Consulting, working in the areas of scalable internet architectures, database replication, and e-mail infrastructure. This talk was on converting a... Read More
Dave Thomas runs The Pragmatic Programmers company with Andy Hunt. He and Hunt co-authored The Pragmatic Programmer and Programming Ruby (AKA ‘The Pickaxe Book’). Mike Clark is co-author... Read More
Just thought I’d throw up a quick post to introduce myself. I’m Matthew Eernisse, and I’ll be blogging here at SitePoint occasionally — mostly on Web-related stuff like... Read More
The good people at SitePoint have been kind enough to indulge my request to conduct a marketing benchmarking survey of SitePoint readers. It is not scientific, it is a bit biased, and it may not even... Read More
This week Microsoft has released two new CTPs. The first is the initial drop of Sandcastle, their .NET 2.0 documentation compilation tool. The second is yet another release of the ASP.NET Atlas... Read More
I just signed up with www.carbonite.com, a web-based backup solution. The process meets almost every criteria I can think of for a positive web-based ecommerce service: - First, I heard about the... Read More
