I had the privilege of presenting jQuery at Desert Code Camp today.  jQuery is the do more, write less JavaScript library.  Because it runs client-side, it can be used easily with any server framework.  There's nice support for intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 as well (with a bug-fix update). jQuery basically breaks down into two operations: picking things, and doing something with those things.  Picking things is done via a CSS / XPath strign describing the DOM nodes you want to do.  This returns an array of DOM elements (wrapped nicely in a jQuery object) that get passed into each of...

Ok, I've been after this one for quite a while. I want to include stuff like Moth.Linq and ExtensionAttribute in .net 2.0 compilations, but exclude them from .net 3.5 compilations. In effect, I want to cross compile to .net 2.0 and .net 3.5. Not only do I want to do this from within Visual Studio, I also want the Continuous Integration server to do it too. Tall order? Yes. A bit of background: - Moth.Linq is a mechanism for producing LINQ functionality in assemblies compiled in Visual Studio 2008 targeted to the .net 2.0 framework. You...

I had the great honor of presenting 'Thinking in JavaScript' at the Java Users' Group last night. I love leading a discussion of learning, and this was a great example of it. I was even asked during conversation afterwards if I was a member of 'the club' [the Java Users' Group -- JUG]. Well, do I have to know Java to be part of the JUG? I guess not. What a fun and welcoming crowd. Our premise was thus: you know object-oriented development. You know C-style syntax from either C, C++, Java, C#, or any...