The Problem Developing web applications on a local machine under IIS means that the majority of the time we use the typical localhost/{appname} convention. There are times when this is less than satisfactory to fit in with your URL pattern and sometimes when it just looks plain crap. The adv... [More]

Last week I came across a tag cloud implementation on Damien du Toit's blog that I had never seen before. The tag cloud itself is a wordpress plugin that was created by Roy Tanck. Now my first thoughts were that the flash based implementation was an excuse to add something aesthetically appeal... [More]

jQuery has made client-side development with Javascript much less painful. Function chaining in particular saves a great deal of time by allowing multiple operations to be chained together. But the most exciting feature for any developer has to be the extensible plugin construct. Having looked aro... [More]

The standard RadioButtonList control that ships with ASP.NET has a minor flaw (in my opinion) in that it doesn't allow the developer to do anything else but add text to each radio button list item. This is essentially down to the fact that the RadioButtonList control, along with the CheckB... [More]