Archive for September, 2009

XST Control, a comparision between initial jQuery and JavaScript implementations

As we already discussed in a previous article we started to rewrite one of our custom ASP Controls in order to improve server and network load. During this process we transformed most of old JavaScript functions to jQuery. Please bear in mind that the objective was not to improve script performance and jQuery scripts may [...]

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Posted in: Microsoft.NET | September 11, 2009
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Oracle SQL Tip – How to rank a data set and work with its top-ranked or bottom-ranked rows

In this article we will take a brief look at the Oracle SQL FIRST/LAST aggregate functions that allow you to select a value from the first or last row(s) of a sorted group, when the needed value is not the sort key. For example consider a table “PROJECT_COST” having the following structure and data:

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Posted in: Oracle | September 4, 2009
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Code Snippets

The Visual Studio Code Snippets feature allows very simple, common, code blocks to be reused without requiring the same thing to be typed out repeatedly, or copied and hacked. The Code Snippets feature allows inserting code, wrapping existing code and replacement of key parts of the Snippet.

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Posted in: Microsoft.NET | September 4, 2009
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Fix for Internet Explorer 6 duplicate characters bug

Internet Explorer 6 or any other version has been and still is every Web Developer’s nightmare when it comes to designing even the most basic CSS for a website. Fortunately, with the release of Internet Explorer 8, most of the IE6′s past bugs have been fixed and slowly, but sure, Microsoft is getting Internet Explorer [...]

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Posted in: Web Development | September 2, 2009
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