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ImageShack Toolbar causes incorrect results from ASP.NET's browser checking code
Wednesday, January 09, 2008We recently updated a few of our web sites with code that would provide a 'nicer' experience for browsers that were not compatible with the ASP.NET ATLAS (AJAX) scripts we were using. For some reason though, a few users who were running a fully compatible browser (Firefox 2.0.0.*), were seeing the no-script experience. We were puzzled, but one of the users figured out that their ImageShack toolbar might be causing the problem. Sure enough, after I installed that same toolbar myself I was able to test and confirm that it truly is causing the confusion. Using a little test page, [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Code Metrics in Visual Studio 2008 and the EvNet project
Monday, January 07, 2008I don't know if this is good or bad, but I thought it was neat that I could right-click the main project (excluding all our client script and HTML) that runs behind on10.net, pick code metrics and see cool #s like "23,442 lines of code" :) Lately though, I've seen us reducing that number while adding features, so this might the highest result I'll ever see for this project :) [read more...]Share this -
The Viewport Meta Tag and the iPhone
Wednesday, January 02, 2008I've been fiddling around with mobile interfaces for both my personal site and for the various sites I work on (http://on10.net, http://channel9.msdn.com, amongst others) and I noticed the use of <meta name="viewport" content... /> on some other mobile sites. A quick search and I found a great discussion of the viewport meta tag on furbo.org (the apple developer site provides the same info in a more reference format). Turns out this simple meta tag helps Mobile Safari determine how best to scale your site for the smaller screen of the iPhone (relative to a desktop that is). I don't have [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Looking for good examples of Mobile Interfaces
Monday, December 31, 2007I'm part of a dev team that builds blog/forum software and I've been thinking about mobile interfaces lately... so I'm trying to find a good example of site like ours that provides a good (enjoyable, useful and usable) mobile interface... one that will work across a variety of browses. It seems 37 Signals is thinking about the same thing these days and they've made a blog post looking for exactly the same thing I am, examples of good mobile interfaces. I'm looking for sites that are some combination of text and video blogging and are usable via a relatively modern [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
I'm planning to get rid of setting our Theme in ASP.NET
Sunday, December 16, 2007The auto inclusion of all our CSS files has finally become too annoying. We'll still use the app_theme directory, as it is a handy way to store our stuff... but I'm really hoping to not set the theme, and to add the appropriate CSS for the situation (mobile vs desktop for example) while also combining our CSS files and 'minifying' them all through a simple 'css.ashx' style handler. This should make it easier to do that combining at run time, while leaving them nice and separate for debug and development purposes. We might still have it set in development [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
The code for my blog site is now available on codeplex.com
Tuesday, October 23, 2007For anyone who is interested in using the code behind this site for their own blog, or who just finds reading code to be a fun pastime, you can go to http://www.codeplex.com/oxite to check it out. Of course, there are other blog engines up there, including blog engine .NET (which appears to be very highly supported and recommended by many folks), if you are in the market for some free blogging code. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
The Channel 9/Channel 10 team is hiring
Thursday, June 28, 2007Hey folks, I work as the dev lead for Channel 9, Channel 10, Mix Online and other sites. We build community sites for Microsoft using video, audio and text blogging and we build them using the latest .NET technologies. If you are into web development, if you have a passion for design and user experience, and if you really rock at AJAX, Javascript, CSS, C# and ASP.NET .... then this is the job for you :) The Developer and Platform Evangelism Team is hiring a software design engineer to join the team that builds and extends Channel 9, Channel 10 [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Internal Microsoft tool, eScrum, is available to the public...
Friday, June 22, 2007We (the dev team behind Channel 9, Channel 10, Mix Online, and others...)been doing scrum-ish development for a few sprints now, but we recently switched to using eScrum. This is a set of templates and tools for use with Team Foundation Server and it really rocks. There are few less-than-polished elements about the install and the web interface, but I'm glad they shipped it out for general use. You can read a good summary of eScrum on the blog 'A Developer's Life', which is also a good resource for lots of other Visual Studio related news. [read more...]Filed under | 3 comments »Share this -
Need to write a parser of your own?
Tuesday, June 12, 2007I haven't had to write a parser since university, but if I had to write one now I'd definitely be checking out Tommy Carlier's 10 part series showing how to write a parser for a demo programming language of his own creation. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
If you are wondering where I get my Xbox Live info...
Friday, June 01, 2007A few people have emailed me or posted comments wondering how I grab the Xbox Info for the Twitter app and for my services. It is not from scraping and it is not from any publicly available source. I joined the Xbox Community Developer Program (XCDP), which is an official program designed to support folks who are building community sites (forums, reviews, blogs, etc...) around Xbox related topics. Many folks who want Xbox info, are not working on a large site like the people in the XCDP, which is exactly why I created my service. This way, people who are [read more...]Filed under | 7 comments »Share this
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