I just found an interesting article on 15seconds, Creating a Server Control for JavaScript Testing by George Masselli. It shows you how to create a control that verifies whether Javascript is supported and enabled. Apparently it is not easy to determine if a user disabled Javascript support for security reasons.This Blog Hosted On:...

Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple. Just copy/cut whatever you want to the clipboard, click on the PureText tray icon, and then paste to any application...

Microsoft Internet Explorer’s response to Firefox: the IE Marketplace.This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/

This is hilarious. Short version – a guy suits up as a storm trooper and goes to Wal-Mart.This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/

From here: The file association Web service in Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 (SP1) extends the scope of information stored locally by the operating system about file name extensions, file types, and the applications or components to use when opening a particular file type. Assuming that .123 filetype is unregistered in your...

Jiho Han, Scott Hanselman, and my fiancé are all having ergonomic problems, so I wanted to post a little ergonomic 101 refresher for all you computer workers out there! Ergonomics.com in Australia (what a name, huh?) has this page on how to sit at a computer. – read time: 5 minutes PageWise has some tips on ergonomic exercises to...

As anyone can see from the DNJ weblogs home page or the ASP.NET weblogs home page, comment spam is a problem. Jay we understand how you feel! Of course, feeling that I am obviously smarter (ha ha) than the hundreds of super-intelligent people working on this problem, I’d like to offer my two suggestions. For a short-term fix, disable any...

Over my vacation I read Steve McConnell’s Software Project Survival Guide as a sort of retrospective of our recently completed project. In the book McConnell suggests a complete, somewhat minimal development process targeted at medium-sized applications, that is, non-safety-critical applications that take from 6 to 18 months to complete...

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I’m off for 5 days to vacation in Myrtle Beach, SC. Before I go though, here’s an awesome announcement from Josh Ledgard: Combined RSS Feed for Leadership Team Blogs Earlier I posted about the Developer Division organizational leads blog page. One of the complaints we received was that the page did not have an RSS feed that combined...

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I’ve remained quiet on the political front, allowing others to show either their ignorance or brilliance depending on whom they supported in relation to your candidate. :) All I have to say is that Kerry went out with class (unlike his predecessor), and the American population woke up with a record turnout. Now let’s all work...

Now for this week's Friday Fun Post: President Bush's Daughters Senator Kerry's Daughters Keep it clean or I turn off the comments!This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/

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I was skeptical of the “Windows Genuine Advantage” program, seeing no real, er, advantage. But apparently 828,000 people have visited the site, according to Mary Jo Foley.  And now Microsoft is (finally) offering $390 in free/reduced price software, like Photo Story.This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/