By far the #1 complaint I hear from users of various web applications is that printing a page is not WYSIWYG.  It’s really a simple problem that the industry has sort of swept under the rug for most of the history of the Internet.  Browser printing in the current versions of IE and Firefox is simply horrible, and...

I was just poking around some of my old blog posts, and was reminded of a series of cartoons I made back in 2004.  I’m not sure if they’re funny or not, it’s one of those blog things that I probably should have just kept inside my head, instead of putting it out there for the world to see. There was one cartoon that I...

I was just poking around some of my old blog posts, and was reminded of a series of cartoons I made back in 2004.  I’m not sure if they’re funny or not, it’s one of those blog things that I probably should have just kept inside my head, instead of putting it out there for the world to see. There was one cartoon that I...

Using ASP.NET 2.0’s new GridView control with the new ObjectDataSource allows you to properly layer your applications.  You can create strongly-typed collections of your business objects, and quickly bind them to the new Grid.  The hype sounds good.  Real good, in fact: From Move Over DataGrid, There's...

Using ASP.NET 2.0’s new GridView control with the new ObjectDataSource allows you to properly layer your applications.  You can create strongly-typed collections of your business objects, and quickly bind them to the new Grid.  The hype sounds good.  Real good, in fact: From Move Over DataGrid, There's...

Today we added Rod Paddock to the CodeBetter.Com crew.Rod Paddock is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA. Dash Point Software specializes in application architecture, development and software training. Clients include Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, The US...

Today we added Rod Paddock to the CodeBetter.Com crew.Rod Paddock is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA. Dash Point Software specializes in application architecture, development and software training. Clients include Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, The US...

You could fill your entire week at the conference, going to the scheduled MSFT events and parties, eating lots of chips, stuffing your backpack with free Schwag, and riding escalators around the conference.  There’s never a shortage of things to do at TechEd.  Personally, I can only stand so much pre-arranged...

You could fill your entire week at the conference, going to the scheduled MSFT events and parties, eating lots of chips, stuffing your backpack with free Schwag, and riding escalators around the conference.  There’s never a shortage of things to do at TechEd.  Personally, I can only stand so much pre-arranged...

Sometimes an irrelevant site gets listed at the top of a Google search, due not to the page's relevance, but because Google's page rank algorithm bases it's page relevance partly on inbound links. Take for example a simple Google search for "sinks."  The number 1 result?  Cats in Sinks.  A funny site, but it's completely...

Sometimes an irrelevant site gets listed at the top of a Google search, due not to the page's relevance, but because Google's page rank algorithm bases it's page relevance partly on inbound links. Take for example a simple Google search for "sinks."  The number 1 result?  Cats in Sinks.  A funny site, but it's completely...

As you may know, one of our bloggers, Raymond Lewallen's son Drew recently passed away.  You can find out more about Drew's story here.The Lewallens Need our HelpThey have set up a fund in Drew's name through Oklahoma University Children's Hospital Volunteers. This will allow all donations for Drew to go to a central location and the...

As you may know, one of our bloggers, Raymond Lewallen's son Drew recently passed away.  You can find out more about Drew's story here.The Lewallens Need our HelpThey have set up a fund in Drew's name through Oklahoma University Children's Hospital Volunteers. This will allow all donations for Drew to go to a central location and the...

To me, you can’t get too far into the whole Web2.0/Ajax/Mashup/Whatevr discussion without coming up with a method of handling long running web requests.  Yes, AJAX is about providing a responsive UI while you’re posting back to the server, but the more we begin to mash together all these remote webservice...

To me, you can’t get too far into the whole Web2.0/Ajax/Mashup/Whatevr discussion without coming up with a method of handling long running web requests.  Yes, AJAX is about providing a responsive UI while you’re posting back to the server, but the more we begin to mash together all these remote webservice...