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

Testing the OnActionExecuting event of a Controller

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress I was doing a bit of refactoring on an ASP.NET MVC web application and was using the OnActionExecuting event in a controller to do authentication. I had not yet written a test for

VMWare Fusion vs Parallels

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress I have been using a Mac as my main development machine for over a year now. I have been very happy with it, you could call me an Apple fanboy. Because I develop in

Austin and Kaizenconf Part 2

Using and abusing ASP.NET MVC for fun and profit Being a huge fan of ASP.NET MVC, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to see guys that are much smarter than I am show off how they use the MVC framework. Jeremy and Chad showed real code of how

Austin and Kaizenconf Part 1 - workshops

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress It's finally there, Jan and I departed from Belgium to Austin, Texas to attend Kaizenconf. I have been looking forward to this for quite a while. It didn’t start out good when I

Creating a menu for your ASP.NET MVC website using HTML helpers

I've been working with ASP.NET MVC for a few months and it has been quite a ride. I'm working on a website where the menu is loaded from the database. It should be rendered as an unsorted list and a CSS class should be added to the active item.