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• IE Browser Detection for CSS (Using Conditional Comments)

  12 March 2009 - 1:00 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 3 Comments for IE Browser Detection for CSS (Using Conditional Comments).

  Technical Article - A simple, reliable way to perform browser detection for Internet Explorer browsers, in order to serve certain CSS or JavaScript files (or even HTML mark-up) to specific versions of IE, while ignoring other browsers. If you have to serve a certain style sheet file to a specific version of IE to steer your way around CSS browser rendering bugs, then this may come in handy.

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  • CSS
  • HTML
  • JavaScript

• Misc Updates: Twitter and ASP.NET MVC

  7 March 2009 - 11:30 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 0 Comments for Misc Updates: Twitter and ASP.NET MVC.

  Personal Blog - Some miscellaneous updates. You can now find me on Twitter. I’m also learning ASP.NET MVC (Model, View, Controller) and in the process of converting this blog over to MVC.

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  • ASP.NET MVC
  • Personal
  • Twitter

• Add Silverlight Tracking to your Google Analytics

  28 February 2009 - 11:40 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 1 Image for Add Silverlight Tracking to your Google Analytics. 1 Comment for Add Silverlight Tracking to your Google Analytics.

  Technical Article - Use this handy JavaScript to add Silverlight Tracking to Google Analytics, and see what percentage of your users have Silverlight installed, including which versions.

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  • Google Analytics
  • JavaScript
  • Silverlight

• Photo Mosaic Generator - Fun Adventures With Silverlight

  30 January 2009 - 2:30 AM / by Dominic Pettifer. 2 Images for Photo Mosaic Generator - Fun Adventures With Silverlight. 3 Comments for Photo Mosaic Generator - Fun Adventures With Silverlight.

  Personal Blog - I've been learning Silverlight and have decided to write a Photo Mosaic Generator with it. Check out some of the cool Mosaics I've made already.

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  • Personal
  • Silverlight

• Dynamic/Conditional Order By Clause in SQL Server/T-SQL

  25 January 2009 - 5:42 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 4 Comments for Dynamic/Conditional Order By Clause in SQL Server/T-SQL.

  Technical Article - This article shows you how to achieve a conditional Order By clause in your SQL Server Stored Procedures, without having to resort to inline SQL in your applications, or Dynamic SQL (yuck!) in your Stored Procedures.

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  • Code Quality
  • SQL Server
  • Stored Procedures

• GZip compress your website's HTML/CSS/Script in code

  15 May 2008 - 2:23 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 13 Comments for GZip compress your website's HTML/CSS/Script in code.

  Cool C# Snippets - Dynamically GZIP compress the HTML response of your website in code, without having to configure IIS directly. Make massive savings on your websites bandwidth.

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  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • Optimisation
  • Performance

• Using Namespace Aliases

  11 October 2007 - 1:43 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 1 Comment for Using Namespace Aliases.

  Cool C# Snippets - Ever get tired of prefixing class names with the fully qualified namespace to avoid class name and namespace conflicts (eg. System.Namespace.AnotherNamespace.User). Well there’s a way around it using Namespace Aliases.

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  • .NET
  • C#

• JavaScript/CSS and Custom Controls

  18 December 2006 - 1:00 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 3 Comments for JavaScript/CSS and Custom Controls.

  Technical Article - This guide will show you how to implement JavaScript code in your custom ASP.NET server controls, and implement them in such a way to decouple your custom control from the web application implementation. We’ll also look at CSS for your custom controls.

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  • ASP.NET
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • SEO

• Get a<HEAD> with ASP.NET 2.0

  11 December 2006 - 11:43 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 9 Comments for Get a<HEAD> with ASP.NET 2.0.

  Technical Article - New in ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to add runat="server" to the pages <head> tag. This lets you programmatically modify the head element and other elements inside it such as, Title, adding JavaScript code and style attributes, plus many more. Here I show how this is done.

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  • ASP.NET
  • SEO

• Ajax Chat Rooms Almost Ready

  1 December 2006 - 3:08 PM / by Dominic Pettifer. 2 Images for Ajax Chat Rooms Almost Ready. 1 Comment for Ajax Chat Rooms Almost Ready.

  Technical Article - I'm just putting the finishing touches to my Ajax powered chat room application (see Chat Rooms link in the About section, bottom left). Still a few bugs left to deal with, but you can use it, well sort of. Though it's amazing how the XmlHttpRequest object can be harnessed to build such an application.

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  • Ajax
  • JavaScript

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