HTML/CSS-Only Data Pager Control

2009-03-17T23:50:53Z

After reading these two articles I thought it would be interesting to see if I could this technique to create a HTML/CSS-only (i.e. no background images) data pager control. Here are some screen shots of what I came up with (the second and third screen shots show the roll-over states) …

You can check out the live demo here. I tried it in the major browsers (FF, Opera, IE7, Safari and Chrome) and it worked great. Unfortunately it looks like crap in IE6 …

If you didn’t know it was possible to render angled shapes using straight HTML/CSS - I recommend checking out the following articles …

That’s it. Enjoy!

.Net Developer Survey - Results

2009-03-06T02:15:56Z

I just closed the survey a few hours ago. Below is a quick break-down of the results. I plan on digging into the numbers a little bit further, but at first glance the following responses surprised me …

71.5% of responses indicated they don’t see a problem with blogging while at work.

That seemed incredibly high to me. I would have guessed the yes/no percentages would have been flipped. I think every boss I have ever had would have fired me on the spot if they caught me blogging at work.

45.31% of responses indicated they don’t use social bookmarking sites.

That seemed a little low.

Over 75% of the responses indicated they have been at their current job for 4 years or less.

I am not surprised by this, but I still think this is really high (or wish it would be lower).

Twice as many people use linkedin as twitter. And just about as people use linkedin as facebook/myspace.

I wouldn’t have guessed linkedin was that popular.

Lot’s of DEV III’s and Architects out there (56%)

	Yes	No	Didn’t Answer	Total
Do you Blog?	39.12%	59.48%	1.40%	1,002
Would you consider it unethical to publish a blog post while at work?	26.34%	71.50%	2.16%	972
Do you use twitter?	30.58%	67.96%	1.47%	955
Would you consider it unethical to twitter while at work?	27.57%	69.57%	2.86%	943
Do you have a facebook/myspace account?	69.05%	29.67%	1.28%	937
Would you consider it unethical to update your facebook/myspace page while at work?	56.00%	42.08%	1.93%	934
Do you consider it unethical to send personal emails while at work?	11.03%	87.14%	1.84%	925

	Yes	No	Didn’t Answer	Total
Do you use linkedin?	61.13%	37.89%	0.98%	921
Has linkedin ever helped you with finding a job?	6.70%	90.22%	3.08%	910

	Yes	No	Didn’t Answer	Total
Do you use social bookmarking sites (delicious, digg, reddit, dotnetkicks, etc ...)?	53.47%	45.31%	1.21%	907

	None	1 - 5	6-10	More than 10	Didn’t Answer	Total
How many online communities do you belong to?	9.07%	71.00%	12.09%	7.05%	0.78%	893
How many online communities are you active in on a daily basis?	31.38%	65.13%	1.35%	0.56%	1.57%	889
How many online communities are you active in on a weekly basis?	17.42%	71.49%	7.69%	1.70%	1.70%	884

	Architect	DEV I	DEV II	DEV III	Other	Didn’t Answer	Total
What best describes your current job title?	21.32%	13.34%	20.98%	35.01%	8.67%	0.68%	877

	Less than 2 years	2 - 4 years	5 - 8 years	9 - 15 years	More than 15	Didn’t Answer	Total
What best describes your current job title?	38.42%	36.93%	14.79%	6.77%	2.06%	1.03	872

	Yes	No	Didn’t Answer	Total
Are you currently looking for a job?	19.54%	79.54%	0.92%	870

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Didn’t Answer	Total
On a scale from 1 to 10, rate your current job	1.15%	1.04%	2.88%	3.69%	13.82%	7.26%	21.31%	24.77%	12.56%	10.71%	0.81%	868
On a scale from 1 to 10, rate your current boss.	3.01%	2.66%	3.24%	5.20%	13.41%	5.55%	15.03%	19.19%	14.10%	16.53%	2.08%	865

	Less than $50,000	$50,000 to $75,000	$76,000 to $100,000	More than $100,000	Didn’t Answer	Total
What is your current salary range?	26.49%	28.24%	25.55%	17.04%	2.68%	857

	Younger than 25	Between 25 and 35	Between 36 and 45	Between 46 and 55	Older than 56	Didn’t Answer	Total
How old are you?	10.06%	60.70%	22.81%	4.91%	0.94%	0.58%	855

.Net Developer Survey

2009-03-03T00:52:41Z

So I recently switched jobs (again!). And during my time off, I had an interesting conversation with a couple of colleague’s about how ‘internet social’ the average developer is and if that has anything to do with their productivity. Our opinions varied so I thought I would ask for some help. I came up with a survey that captures the essence of our conversation. If you can spare a few seconds, here is the link to where you can take it –> survey.

I’ll post the results in a few days …

Update 3/3/2009: Getting a lot of responses (~400 completed surveys so far) – so thanks everyone. Also, if you don’t feel like answering a question, or if it doesn’t apply, you can skip the question by clicking the next button.

Update 3/5/2009: I have received about 1,000 responses so I have decided to close the survey. Checkout the results here

Matt Berseth

HTML/CSS-Only Data Pager Control

.Net Developer Survey - Results

.Net Developer Survey