Survey Using jQuery Star Rating Widget

by Bill Beckelman 30. August 2008 13:34
I recently built a survey using the jQuery Star Rating Widget. With a little work and jQuery magic I came away with a survey that looks good, provides the ability to add an explanation when the user selects a value on the the low end of the scale and degrades fairly gracefully when JavaScript is dis... [More]

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by Bill Beckelman 29. August 2008 17:52
I found these links useful. Hope you might as well.   Getting Things Done Control Your Computer with Shortcuts to Common Windows Tasks - I setup a hot key to put my laptop to sleep. http://lifehacker.com/5042245/control-your-computer-with-shortcuts-to-common-windows-tasks Fi... [More]

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Favorite Folders Disappearing in Outlook

by Bill Beckelman 19. August 2008 14:53
My favorite folders disappeared in Outlook the other day after a crash. It really bugged me because I like using favorites for my most used folders. It took a little searching but I found this post http://blog.palehorse.net/2007/09/26/outlook-ate-my-favorite-shortcuts/ which solved the problem. ... [More]

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Select All CheckBoxes in an ASP.NET ListView Control using jQuery

by Bill Beckelman 9. August 2008 14:54
I have been thinking about doing this since I started using jQuery about a week ago because it is so much cleaner on the client side instead of having to do a postback just to select some CheckBoxes. Turns out it is pretty easy to do if you get your selectors right. Hint: FireBug makes this a lot ea... [More]

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Enabling Dynamic HTTP Compression in IIS 6.0

by Bill Beckelman 5. August 2008 16:45
I tried multiple MS Articles and blog posts to attempt to get HTTP Compression of dynamic files (aspx) to work on a server at work before I finally found this post http://www.dotnetjunkies.ddj.com/Article/16267D49-4C6E-4063-AB12-853761D31E66.dcik on DotNetJunkies. I now have pages that are loading a... [More]

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Messing Around with jQuery

by Bill Beckelman 3. August 2008 13:13
The developers I follow (Berseth, Janko, & Mosa) have been doing a lot of stuff with jQuery lately. I got some time today to finally try some stuff out on my own. Checkout the two examples that demonstrate the code/plugins I tried out: Example One: Highlighting the active field ... [More]

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ASP.NET WYSIWYG Html Editor Controls

by Bill Beckelman 2. August 2008 19:44
I've been wanting to add an html editor control in quite a few places in the project that I have been working on for a while now. I finally got some time so I started out with a Google search in hopes of finding a free control to use. I ended up looking at three different controls: FCKEditor ... [More]

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