Web Development in 2012: This Ain't Your Daddy's HTML
For the first 11 years of my professional career I designed and built applications using HTML. When I first started out, I mostly just specified the application design, having other people much smarter...
View ArticleJavaScript: Rise of the Single Page Application
Last month I wrote about the current state of HTML application development and how it has changed drastically over the past five years. In that post I mentioned a lot of technologies that have evolved,...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012, Extension Updates, and (417) Expectation failed
While running Visual Studio 2012 behind a proxy, I received the following error message when checking for extension updates in the Visual Studio Gallery:The remote server returned an unexpected...
View ArticleSingle Page Application Frameworks
Several months ago I started work on a new project that required a web-based user-interface. I had been out of the HTML game for several years, spending time instead on Windows Forms and Flex-based...
View ArticleDates and Time Zones in Javascript, C#, and SQL Server
An issue that always seems to plague developers who write software that is used in multiple geographically disperse locations is that of dates and time zones. If a user in the Eastern time zone updates...
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