http://www.dotnetfrenzy.com An ASP.Net Developers Blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:04:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just finished doing some talks on geo hacking (slides are available here) and how to use some of the Geo technologies Yahoo and Google provide as part of a University gig in Atlanta. As a lot of the students liked the idea of APIs like GeoPlanet and Placemaker but ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/4d9UHS2adjk/yql-geo-library-all-your-geo-needs-in-pure-javascript Erik Dahlström and Vincent Hardy have put together a cool website, called SVG Wow!, that showcases SVG doing things you didn’t expect SVG can do: There are alot of unique demos on there. One of my favorites uses SVG, HTML5 Audio, Web Fonts, and YUI to play music accompanied by flying animated ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/CgfloplT8cM/svg-wow The Ext JS team have announced the 3.2 beta which includes new components and goodness. Take the animated DataView transitions for example: On top of that, the release includes: Multiple sorting and filtering on Ext.data.Store Composite Fields Slider improvements Toolbar plugins: ToolbarReorderer and ToolbarDroppable New Accessibility Theme: compliant with Section 508 of the Disabilities Act. Quality Assurance: ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/8BQGkiJoWb0/ext-js-3-2-beta-stores-components-transitions-and-themes Paul Irish and Jonathan Neal have created a fun example of various CSS tweaks that you can make, and see the results instantly. CSS3, Please! lets you play with fancy new rules such as: border-radius box shadow gradients rgba support in backgrounds transforms font-face Really nice way to make tweaks inline in the page….. nicely done. Hope to ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/mDpzAA5hJ38/css3-please-instant-results-thank-you Good old Kangax has been playing with HTML minification and has shared his new tool in an early stage. What does it do? Kangax has forked John Resig’s HTML parser which parses the HTML and sends that into the Minifier. This has rules that do things like whitespace optimization, comment removal, and ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/GqOvRXjR1wY/html-minification Harmony is a new drawing tool, a HTML5/Canvas experiment with great potential. It provides some unique brush styles, and can produce some great-looking charcoal pencil style sketches, among other things. Better to try it out than explain it in words. Creator Mr. Doob (Richard Cabello) explains how he used Canvas ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/9ASJDZ59k9Y/harmony-canvas-drawing-tool The HTML5 specification introduces the and media elements, and with them the opportunity to dramatically change the way we integrate media on the web. The current HTML5 media API provides ways to play and get limited information about audio and video, but gives no way to programatically access ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/tVWFXrUtupI/spectrum-visualization-with-the-html5-audio-data-api Continuing my series of posts about ASMX services and JSON, in this post I’m going to cover two common mistakes that plague the process of getting a project’s first ASMX ScriptService working: Installing System.Web.Extensions into the GAC and configuring your web.config. System.Web.Extensions (aka ASP.NET AJAX) The ability for ASMX services to return ... http://feeds.encosia.com/~r/Encosia/~3/KWSmeXAYY6A/ modulr is a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaScript Ruby? what does that have anything to do with it? Ah, its from one of those Prototype guys isn't it.... Yup, Tobie is at it again, this time with modulr: modulr accepts a singular file as input (the program) on which ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/88WWc8yFtWU/modulr-a-commonjs-module-implementation-in-ruby-for-client-side-javascript [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] We are continuing to make progress on shipping Visual Studio 2010.  I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has ... http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/03/08/some-vs-2010-rc-updates-including-patches-for-intellisense-and-web-designer-fixes.aspx