Coding Conundrums

Today I will be giving a lecture on using Master pages in an ASP.Net website. I will also be talking about the importance of separation of style and markup. Download the sample website

** UPDATE – New zip containing “Basic Master Page” setup and styling **
Download the “Basic” website

Like a lot of you out there, I am a windows developer with an iPhone. This limits me to using libraries like jQTouch to make my App idea as iPhone targeted web apps. Well I have found a nice way to test my iPhone Web Apps on my PC using Safari 4 thanks to the nice people @ Apple.
Read the rest of this entry »

I have come to the conclusion that I need to learn PHP and MySQL. At work we are on a Microsoft stack. And while I am comfortable with this and confident that neither technology is better than the other, I feel like knowing only the one is hindering my growth as a developer. Not to mention my ability to get on interesting projects that use the open source stack.

So over the next few months I will be taking on the task of learning PHP and MySQL. I am very excited as I am sure it will help me grow and also get better at customizing wordpress themes. Check back later to see how it is going.

So I have been using bookmarklets for a while and decided I would like to make one of my own. So first I decided what action I do a lot that I could make a bookmarklet for. I came up with creating one to search Amazon products.

Bookmarklet Here – Drag bookmarklet into your bookmark bar to add.

. The idea is to see a product name on a page.

Highlight the name.

Then click the bookmarklet to open a window to search amazon.