We have been using ABCpdf to generate PDFs on the fly of the page currently being browsed. It has given us years of service, but now with the new version of our site I have had to find an alternative solution as my page body gets styled out of sight and then moved into position [...]

I previously wrote a post outlining a simpler method of making asynchronous calls with jQuery. It turns out that in practice that method was exactly that – too simple. It works fine when you only need one value back, but if you need to work with something a little more complex then try out my [...]

What a full day – to be honest its all a blur. But fear not I tweeted up a storm and will revisit this post and update once the dust has settled. Suffice to say there were some awesome talks (and some not so awesome ). I seized a gap in lectures in the afternoon [...]

So here I am, Durban by the sea, for the 09 instalment of Microsoft’s Tech-Ed. I have not been in Durbs for many years, but there’s something about the place that agrees with me, stepping of the plane you are welcomed by a thick blanket of humidy – and it’s the middle of winter. I [...]

I am not a fan of the classic method of implementing ajax in .net – scriptmanagers and updatepanels. The load on the front end is pretty big (100kb+), especially considering local bandwidth restrictions and challenges. So I set out to find a better way as one does when one feels that something is not quite [...]

So recently I needed to take an image uploaded by the client and embed it into an email as part of a ‘send to a friend’ type piece of functionality. After much trial and error I managed to put all the pieces together – the tricky bit is taking an image that only lives in [...]