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Setting a focus on load
This may not be new for everyone, but I just learned it today. In webpages, to set focus to a control after a page has loaded, you handle the body’s onload event and then call the focus method off of the control.
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FeedBurner
I recently moved my feeds over to FeedBurner, so if you’re subscribed to my feed, please point over to my new FeedBurner address at http://feeds.feedburner.com/DavidMohundro.
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Generic Fun!
Thanks to a post from Jeff Atwood, I discovered the blog of Francesco Belana. He’s the author of some great books including Programming Visual Basic.NET, which my company has been using to get our developers up to speed on .NET.
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Thread-safe GUIs in .NET 2.0
Roy Osherove posts today about different ways to accomplish thread-safe GUIs using .NET 2.0… and C#.
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Open Web Design
Check out Open Web Design.
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Microsoft Branding Police!
What would happen if Microsoft had branded the iPod instead of Apple?
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WPF is amazing!
If you’ve never seen some of the posts from Kevin Moore regarding WPF (commonly pronounced Avalon), you should definitely check them out. In particular, some of the things you can do with ListViews and XAML are incredible! He points to this post to show some of the XAML that is required and, really, it doesn’t look that bad. To get something like that out of the built-in ListView in .NET 1.1 or .NET 2.0, you would have to do some owner-drawn madness… or do the entire thing yourself.
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Which language do YOU like better?
Larry O’Brien talks about the myth of better programming languages and how “there is not a shared psychology of computer programming.” Seriously, it really does have to do with how you think about things. I work with people who can type all day and then compile and run their program without any errors… in COBOL. Does that mean that it is a better programming language? Maybe for them. Most definitely not for me.
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Icons AND Text!
Jeff Atwood posted a very interesting article today detailing the effects of icons, text, and combinations of the two in toolbars. I particularly liked his comparison of using different icon sets for toolbars. The image of Word with all possible toolbars displayed was particularly horrifying, though.
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Performancing Firefox Add-in
I just installed the Performancing Add-in today and it is pretty snazzy. It seems to work fine with dasBlog, which is exactly what I need. It supports categories and will also pull in previous posts and allow you to edit them. It also has some pretty good formatting capabilities. If you can read this post, then I can highly recommend Performancing!
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