Developer's Desk

Checking for Query Strings in ASP.NET

mdrisser — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:37:48 +0000

Introduction: I am a PHP developer who has recently begun learning ASP.NET. Its an interesting journey to say the least. I’ve decided to share with you ways I’ve found to do things in ASP.NET that are second nature to me in PHP. They may not always be the most effective, or the most correct, but [...]

Rule of Thirds Sketch Sheets

mdrisser — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:30:09 +0000

Dividing a medium and placing content/objects within or on a third provides for a pleasing balance

jQuery Filtering Tip

mdrisser — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:12:09 +0000

I was adding some jQuery to a sight I’m working on, code that would append the little “External Link” icon to a link, when I discovered a small problem. The code would, quite naturally, append the icon to links that were images themselves. After a few minutes of digging around and trying different filters, this [...]

Vendor-Specific CSS Extensions

mdrisser — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:01:05 +0000

the specification referenced specifically allows vendor-specific extensions

Getting the Original Web Site Graphic

mdrisser — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:50:51 +0000

Setting a negative text indent is a great way to hide text, for animations, etc., and should be a part of a web-designer's repitiore.

Review – Microsoft Expression Web 3

mdrisser — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:45:13 +0000

As part of the WebsiteSpark initiative from Microsoft, which I talked about last time, you receive a licensed copy of Microsoft Expression Web. There are 4 parts to the Expression Web Family: Expression Blend Expression Design Expression Encoder Expression Web I’ve taken a little time to play around with them, so I’ll share with you my impressions. Overview “Microsoft® Expression® Studio opens [...]

Free Windows Software for Web Developers?

mdrisser — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:28:20 +0000

I recently began learning ASP.NET to expand my Web Development repitoir and consequently began searching out blogs about ASP.NET. In my search I’ve stumbled across several posts about a new Microsoft initiative to help small web design and development firms and freelancers. WebsiteSpark is an initiative by Microsoft that aims to help these small firms and [...]

jQuery Table of Contents Plugin

mdrisser — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:13:02 +0000

I found an interesting short post by Doug Neiner over at Fuel Your Coding about a jQuery plugin to generate a Table of Contents, this could be very useful for a documentation system, long article, tutorial, etc. You can find the post here.

Freelance Web Developers List

mdrisser — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:20:44 +0000

I’ve seen a couple of great posts for freelance designers to add themselves to a list (Minervity, Woork), a kind of “get your name out there” thing. I think its a great idea, but what about freelance web developers? I mean the back-end coders, PHP, RoR, JSP, etc. So to that end I’ve decided to [...]

Adjunkt Development to Begin

mdrisser — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:25:53 +0000

I think I’ve gotten about as many feature requests as I’m going to get, I put out a last call on Twitter yesterday and received zero responses. In all honesty I’ve only received 3 feature requests, Justin C. Velthoen (@JVelthoen on Twitter has asked for gCal/Outlook ingeration; Jordan Brown (@Jordanbrown on Twitter) has asked for it [...]