jQuery Ajax uploader plugin (with progress bar!)
Do your web applications ever involve letting the user upload a file? If so, how’s the end-user experience: do you show a nice progress bar during the upload, or do you just leave the user waiting for minutes, with no clue when (if ever) the upload will complete? Read More
Speeding up communication between Firefox and Visual Studio’s built-in web server
Has anyone else noticed that, during development, if you use Firefox to browse a site hosted in Visual Studio 2005/2008’s built-in web server (WebDev.WebServer.Exe), it’s really, just, so, excruciatingly … slow?
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App Areas in ASP.NET MVC, take 2
So the discussion continues: How do you partition an ASP.NET MVC application into separate “areas” or “modules” (e.g., blog module, e-commerce module, forums module), then compose a finished app from those areas or modules? Read More
DDD7 talk: “ASP.NET MVC – Show me the code!”
Just a quick announcement for UK readers: if you’re going to DDD7, you might be interested in the following session I’m presenting. Read More
Partial Output Caching in ASP.NET MVC
The ASP.NET platform provides two major caching facilities: Read More
Partial Requests in ASP.NET MVC
In your ASP.NET MVC application, it can be tricky to combine multiple independent “widgets” on the same page. That’s because a WebForms-style hierarchy of independent controls clashes awkwardly against a purist’s one-way MVC pipeline. Widgets? I’m taking about that drill-down navigation widget you want in your sidebar, or the “most recent forum posts” widget you’d put in the page footer. Things that need to fetch their own data independently of the page that hosts them. Read More