Taking Advantage of HTML5 Today
The web's new golden child I was asked in a formal situation recently, “If you were to build a new web site from scratch, which doctype would you use?”. Me: “Commercial site for a customer?” “Just a site for the open web” “Well, then I guess I’d have to say <!doctype ht

Deploying ASP.Net MVC Applications to Your Hosted Environment
I found myself in a very frustrating position last week as I tried to deploy my first ASP.Net MVC application to my own hosted web server.  If you’re building MVC apps for in-house use or for deployment to servers over which you have full control, you may have found the process to be quick, painless and generally quite enjoyable.  Similarly, if you’re deploying to servers running IIS7, then you may also have had a pretty good experience. My hosting provider however, is running IIS6 and does not have configurations for MVC pre-prepared.  Customers need to raise a Tech Support ticket to request their site to be MVC-enabled on a case-by-case basis.  Not realising that

Working With Tables in jQuery
Possibly one of the most frustrating or confusing tasks a developer may find is retrieving information from within a table.  Getting references to cells, rows and columns often seems like it should be a doddle with jQuery, but getting just the right combination of selectors and commands can sometimes be more elusive than it would seem at first blush. Let’s have a look at how to get the right information from your tables first time, every time. Basic Tasks Typically, your most basic tasks are going to be finding the column or row number

IE8 Developer Tools Need Love Too!
I attended a Microsoft Unplugged session the other day where Giorgio Sardo presented a discussion on creating cross-browser compatible websites using IE8’s Developer Tools and Expression Web SuperPreview. While I went in as a skeptical developer expecting to hear the usual rhetoric around some misguided enthusiasm about a new feature set that other browsers have been doing for years, I came out highly surprised and impressed with some of the tools that are bundled as part of the embattled browser. Internet Explore