Peter Eysermans

Visual Studio Redesign: lose the designers, add a command prompt?

There has been a clear shift in the way I use Visual Studio lately. Visual studio has a lot of built-in panels to help you develop the next killer application. There are a lot of panels I hardly ever use. Most of my time I spend, not quite surprising, in

Compressing and combining files with JavaScriptMVC

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress This is the third article on JavaScriptMVC, so if you’re interested in more these are my previous posts on the subject: * Finally found what I have been looking for: JavaScriptMVC * The MVC of

Getting the element that has the focus via JavaScript

This is one of those things that you only need on very specific occasions. I needed to get the element that has the focus on a page. Went to Google and found the answer somewhere deep into a forumthread. So for future reference here goes: Internet Explorer supports the document.

The MVC in JavaScriptMVC

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress DISCLAIMER: I recently started using JavaScriptMVC and got to like it a lot. These blogposts are a way for me to document my learning process of the framework. There is the possibility that I

Finally found what I have been looking for: JavaScriptMVC

I’m very passionate about the code I write, and with the coming of jQuery I really began to love Javascript. But the Javascript I wrote was more of the procedural kind. I tried to split it up per page or user control but it still felt bad. For pages

Book review: jQuery in Action

I started reading this book about 6 months ago. After reading it half way through I stopped and start reading a newly purchased book. The reason that I stopped reading was because I was excited and impatient to start reading the new book, it’s a problem I have every

Sequentially download multiple files (with jQuery)

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress On my previous job, I was working together with a colleague on a file transfer application which lived in the browser. We were up -and downloading multiple files at the same time and needed

One tool to test them all: Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress A new tool was launched by the Expression Web team at MIX09. Multibrowser testing these days is still a real pain in the ass. But as a web standards fanatic I want my websites

Why learning CSS is important in a (web) development world

I notice that a lot of development effort is going into creating a nice back end. Creating a GUI is a matter of using the designer – better known as system.draggy-droppy – and setting the right colors via the properties panel. But lately a shift has happened which forces developers to

Posting code on your blog

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress If you have a technical blog it’s very important that you can somehow easily post code snippets to your blog. I was using the Visual Studio plugin Copy source as HTML for a