Andy Edinborough
Blog
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I present you with the CSS Stress Test bookmarklet. Now let me explain: I have been losing my sanity over the oddest issue. The project I’m working on right now has a fairly complex stylesheet. Performance for the site is absolutely critical. I’ve done my best, best …
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I may be a nerd (that is, a geek who get’s paid), but I don’t enjoy writing stored procedures. However, in working with the Entity Framework, I’ve found that doing complex and often repeated queries of my Entity Framework sets is rather inefficient. My complete round, round …
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Sigh. These are text-based services… it’s not that hard, and yet all the projects I found out there were nasty—bloated and severely error prone. So, I rebuilt one. This is based heavily on xemail-net. I simplified it quite a bit—created standard methods, methods …
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There are a TON of awful date pickers out there. For a who’s who of the worst, check out Date Time Picker Competitive Analysis. jQuery UI’s Datepicker control is by far the best looking and most intuitive picker. In light of maintaining a uniform UI, I wanted, wanted …
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AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!I had to get that out of my system. I’m not familiar enough with the exact specification of OAuth to know whether it’s Yahoo or Yedda that can’t read a spec, but the Yedda implementation of OAuth available on Google Code, doesn’t even begin to work, work …
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The lack of late-binding in C# has been one of my biggest gripes about C#. Finally, in the .NET Framework v4.0, the dynamic keyword has been introduced (it could be argued that it is too loose—allowing for variant types). But until it is released, the need still exists, exists …