Duncan Mackenzie .NET

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• Newly updated Oxite release available

  Sunday, February 15, 2009

  Erik pushed out a new release to Oxite today, the first since January 5th. This release is an important one, because it reflects a great deal of changes made in response to internal and external feedback about our initial release.

  From the release notes:

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• Chatting today amongst the EvNet team

  Friday, August 29, 2008
  Aug 29 10:20 AM Duncan M. source code formatting checked in Duncan M. http://localhost/posts/Sampy/PAX-Day-3-In-… Aug 29 10:25 AM Duncan M. Duncan M. Duncan M. I started out with overflow-x:auto ... which would add a scroll bar (at least in FF3), but then I went with white-space:pre-wrap; ... but IE doesn't like that :) Aug 29 10:55 AM Duncan M. Nathan, can you send me the link to those pre-wrap alternates? Aug 29 11:00 AM nathan h. http://users.tkk.fi/~tkarvine/pre-wrap-css… Aug 29 11:05 AM Duncan M. thanks Aug 29 2:35 PM Duncan M. I wonder if we should consider using this site to [read more...]
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• The new and improved Channel 9 has shipped!

  Wednesday, June 11, 2008
  When I joined my current team, it was called the Channel 9 dev team, because Channel 9 was the big site that they had built and was the center of all of their efforts. You certainly wouldn’t have known that from how we spent the last two years though :) We built a whole new code base for a video blog site and launched a new site (Channel 10) on that code, bringing some of the video style of Channel 9 to a new audience. We often discussed, as we shipped out revision after revision of the Channel 10 home [read more...]
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• Sidebar Gadgets for Channel 9, Channel 8 and more

  Friday, April 04, 2008
  We recently had Donovan West (LiveGadgets.net) build us a set of sidebar gadgets for Windows Vista. These gadgets use the RSS feeds from each site and let you see all of our new content as it gets posted, then (using Silverlight) you can even play our videos right there on your desktop.   You can check out the gadgets (for Channel 9, Mix, C8, Edge, and on10.net) by clicking on the appropriate image below: [read more...]
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• New Xbox Friends Gadget released and a Silverlight Gamercard Generator

  Thursday, April 03, 2008
  Adam Kinney, Silverlight dude and my colleague at work, has released an updated version of his Xbox Friends Watch gadget and a new standalone gamercard gadget for your website that uses Silverlight 2.0. [read more...]
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• ImageShack Toolbar causes incorrect results from ASP.NET's browser checking code

  Wednesday, January 09, 2008
  We 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...]
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• The Viewport Meta Tag and the iPhone

  Wednesday, January 02, 2008
  I'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...]
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• Looking for good examples of Mobile Interfaces

  Monday, December 31, 2007
  I'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...]
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• Xbox.com looks really boring without a flash plug-in :)

  Sunday, December 16, 2007
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• I'm planning to get rid of setting our Theme in ASP.NET

  Sunday, December 16, 2007
  The 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...]
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