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ImageInfo: reading image metadata (EXIF) with JavaScript

Blogs - 4 days ago

Jacob Seidelin finishes up his binary meme with a post on reading image metadata with JavaScript via a library that groks EXIF data.

It tries to detect the format of the image file and then reads the header and pulls out information about dimensions and color depth among other things. If read more

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Sizzle: John Resig has a new selector engine

Blogs - 5 days ago

John Resig is working on a new selector engine called Sizzle:

This is a new selector engine that I’m working on.
It’s a work in progress! Not ready for use yet!
It’s definitely not ready yet (got some minor outlier bugs in the standards-compliant browsers - an read more

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AJAXWorld RIA Conference - Speaker Mike Girouard's JavaScript Design Patterns, #2

News - 5 days ago

Load time configuration is the process where a JavaScript application configures itself as it is being loaded. This pattern is most commonly found in libraries in which they configure themselves at load time to be optimized for a particular browser. Load time configuration is also known as load tim read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo Attracts Top Faculty

News - 5 days ago

RIAs offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is currently still open, specifically encourage read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo - The UX Meme Is Reaching the Enterprise at Last

News - 6 days ago

In SYS-CON's annual round-up of technology predictions earlier this year, Brad Abrams, a Group Program Manager at Microsoft, highlighted the likelihood of what he called 'the UX meme of the consumer facing world [leaking] into the enterprise' and noted: 'The days of the battleship gray, forms of da read more

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How Do I: Determine Whether to Use a Web Site or a Web Application Project

Videos - 7 days ago

In this video Chris Pels will contrast the differences between an ASP.NET web site project and a web application project. Learn the considerations for using one type of project or the other. First, learn about the major attributes of a web application project including its folder basis. Next, see t read more

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Creating User Accounts with the Create User Wizard

Videos - 7 days ago

In this video, Joe Stagner shows how to create users with the Create User Wizard that comes with the Login Control Collection in ASP.NET and Visual Studio. For additional information about this video, read the "Creating User Accounts" security tutorial (C#, VB). read more

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Creating User Accounts Programmatically

Videos - 7 days ago

In this video, Joe Stagner demonstrates how to create a custom create user web form programmatically while not using the Create User wizard. For additional information about this video, read the "Creating User Accounts" security tutorial (C#, VB). read more

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Validating Users Manually

Videos - 7 days ago

In this video Joe Stagner shows you how to create your own web form and process the authentication request manually. For additional information about this video, read the "Validating User Credentials Against the Membership User Store" security tutorial (C#, VB). read more

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Validating Users with the Login Control

Videos - 7 days ago

In this video, Joe Stagner explores an alternative method of user authentication rather then creating a custom form and calling the API to authenticate a user. He uses the Login Control that ships with ASP.NET 2 and above. For additional information about this video, read the "Validating User Crede read more

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