Jason N. Gaylord's Blog : Tips and Tricks

Technology Related Links for May 13th

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:07:01 GMT

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the Hot Links tag. Series Post #12...(read more)

Technology Related Links for May 11th

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:14:21 GMT

Technology Related Links for May 8th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:10:13 GMT

Technology Links for May 7th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:49:54 GMT

Technology Related Links for May 6th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:37:39 GMT

Technology Related Links for May 4th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:49:49 GMT

Technology Related Links for May 1, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:55:33 GMT

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord Series Post #4 I’ve streamlined the categories a bit more. I’m also going...(read more)

Technology Related Links for April 30, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:28:34 GMT

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord Series Post #3 Architecture and Design Patterns Agile Project Management...(read more)

Technology Related Links – Post #2

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:07:32 GMT

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord Books Beginning ASP.NET MVC – FREE CHAPTER Cloud Computing Bumping into a...(read more)

Technology Related Links – Post #1

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:07:25 GMT

I’m going to try to put together a list of links I grab and post them to intermittent blog posts. I’d like to do a post like this once a day or at the very least once a week, but let’s see where things go. :) Anyway, here’s the first batch of links summarized...(read more)

Minifying HTML and JavaScript Using Microsoft Expression Web

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:07:29 GMT

I don’t get an opportunity to use Microsoft Expression Web that often, but when I do, I always discover new features. I was looking for a way to compress HTML and JavaScript files that I was generating for one of our affiliations. In Expression Web, simply...(read more)

Getting Started with Web Slices for Internet Explorer 8

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:45:51 GMT

What is a Web Slice? One of the most interesting features in Internet Explorer 8 is the ability to subscribe to information you frequently check on a website. This is called a web slice ( ). I find myself frequently checking sports scores and news on...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:29:07 GMT

Stephen Walther has posted a great list of Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks . I found 3 or 4 that I didn’t realize when checking out his post. The two I’ll likely use the most are number 1 and 3. Great stuff Stephen! Read More......(read more)

MVC: From Start to Blog

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:16:54 GMT

I gave a talk this past weekend at the Philly.NET Code Camp 2008.3 . I’ve uploaded my slide deck , project , and a few additional files (used in the demo) in case anyone would like to review again. I was also able to find another way to fake HttpContext...(read more)

My Syndication at FeedBurner – Using Your Domain

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:01:41 GMT

Awhile back, one of my friends over at Telligent , Scott Watermasysk , posted a message regarding FeedBurner and hosting your own RSS feeds . FeedBurner is a web application owned by Google that hosts syndicated feeds and provides statistics based on...(read more)

Debugging ASP.NET MVC Routing

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:40:54 GMT

One of the most critical pieces to MVC is routing users to the proper controller. During the development process, you must keep in mind that routes will take users to the first pattern that matches. It’s not that difficult to create patterns that are...(read more)

Web Site Performance

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:02:00 GMT

I came across a post on StackOverflow.com regarding web site performance . Quite often you can take a look at your application and find 10 different ways to make it more efficient. Depending on your environment, you may have many different ways to increase...(read more)

Velocity Podcast

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:58:08 GMT

Want to learn more about Microsoft Velocity and how this distributed caching system can improve your web applications? Then you'd better check out the new Velocity podcast at ASP.NET Podcast. You can download the MP3 at http://www.aspnetpodcast.com...(read more)

How to Override Cassini's Virtual Path in Visual Studio

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:01:23 GMT

On one of the email lists that I'm on, someone had posted a question about running a website using the root path "/" or a different virtual path than the project name that is populated by default. James Crowley pointed out a blog entry from...(read more)

Tip: Set the SelectedValue on a DropDownList that is populated by a CascadingDropDown

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:05:25 GMT

When using a DropDownList, you can set the selected item by using the SelectedIndex property. However, if your DropDownList is being populated by the CascadingDropDown control (from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit), that doesn't work. Instead, you...(read more)