April 2010 Blog Posts

Working with both VS 2010 and 2008 on the team

With any software version upgrade, there are those that upgrade on day 1, and can't wait to get the beta bits of v.next, and there are those who wait-n-see, wait for a plugin to get upgraded, or just generally need some time to get comfortable with the change.  Upgrading to Visual Studio 2010 is no exception. When you've got a team of people and certain people fall into each category, things can get interesting.  In this case, there are some specific steps we can take to facilitate both groups of users simultaneously working on the same code base. Note that upgrading a...

Presenting jQuery

I had a great honor of presenting both an intro and advanced jQuery class at successive JavaScript Users' Groups.  We had quite a lot of fun discussing both what makes jQuery cool and how one can leverage it for really powerful uses.  Here's the slides for the intro, and here's the project for the advanced one. NOTE: Internet Explorer users will note that the download fails because the files are corrupt.  This is because my server felt the need to gzip the zipped file, and IE doesn't know how to handle that.  The fault is completely mine, but the files are...