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 [...]