Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in May 2008

jQuery Books Review
May 27, 2008 @ 2:10 am

Here's a review of three jQuery books I've read over the last few months.

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Ending a Response without Response.End() Exceptions?
May 26, 2008 @ 12:36 am

There's not really a clean way to end the current Response output and then keep on processing an ASP.NET request. Here's a scenario and a few observations on Response closing behaviors.

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Non ASPX Extensions and Authentication in the IIS 7 Integrated Pipeline
May 23, 2008 @ 3:54 am

Ran into an issue where IIS 7's integrated pipeline exhibits different behavior authenticating non ASPX extensions. Looks like IIS 7 only authenticates mainline files resulting in Context.User==null or Context.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated==false. For example hitting CustomHit.axd doesn't provide user credentials where an ASPX url does.

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My first DotNetRocks Interview
May 19, 2008 @ 9:58 pm

I did my first interview on DotNetRocks today with the topic of jQuery and Client Web Development. It went well, but I was a little nervous - eek, don't know why. I should be used to talking - but if I get nervous all that does is get me talking MORE which is NOT always a good thing, he he. I've been reluctant to do an interview actually. Richard's been been bugging me for a while, but I've been...

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A Kindle Story
May 14, 2008 @ 2:11 pm

Ok, I'm afraid to take out my Amazon Kindle in public now. I just got back from dinner here in Geneva and I was literally swamped by the entire staff of the Italian restaurant trying to get a look at the thing. First there were a few shy glances, then one of the waiters came over and practically demanded to look at it. I even got a free beer out of it for letting him play with it for a minute...

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:hover behavior in IE 7
May 13, 2008 @ 2:35 pm

Ran into an odd problem today with :hover CSS styling that wouldn't work in IE 7. It turns out that I accidentally wiped out my doctype, but even after restoring the doc type I still ended up with problems in large lists.

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Twitter this, Twitter that...
May 10, 2008 @ 9:53 am

So I recently started using Twitter (I'm RickStrahl in case you want to follow me). Late I know - Twitter's been around forever, but when I first heard and thought about Twitter the first thing that popped into my mind was "So what?". The concept of getting blasted with small disconnected messages detailing the minutiae of life of other people didn't sound terribly appealing to me. I'm still not...

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jQuery puts the fun back into Client Scripting
May 10, 2008 @ 3:18 am

jQuery is a small, yet very powerful and extremely addictive JavaScript library, that's rescued me from my JavaScript phobia I've had for many years. Although I've dabbled for years off and on with JavaScript I've not really had any joy with it until I started using jQuery. Here is my take on why this library is such a kick ass tool to have in your Web development toolkit.

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Amazon Kindle on the Road
May 07, 2008 @ 4:08 pm

So I broke down and got myself an Amazon Kindle reader last week before I left for an extended trip to Europe. I've been reluctant to spend this kind of money ($399) on an electronic reader, but since I'll be spending a good deal of time on the road this year in Europe I thought it'd be a good idea to stock up on reading material before I hit the road and not have to deal with keeping stacks of...

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ASP.NET Connections Slides and Samples Posted
May 02, 2008 @ 3:22 am

I've posted my session slides and samples from my ASP.NET Connections sessions last week in Orlando. I did three sessions at the conference and you can check out the slides and samples here. All three sessions had extensive samples (and I didn't even get to them all) so if you attended my sessions be sure to take a look at the samples as there's lots of extra stuff that didn't get covered in...

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Reusing old Laptop SATA Drives via USB
May 01, 2008 @ 1:32 pm

Since I travel around with a spare SATA drive all the time anyway (one too many 'surprise' drive failures) I finally decided to put that spare drive to use as a backup device by using a USB to SATA cable. Handy and maybe enough for me to ditch the shitty process of DVD backups.

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