Tuesday, May 26, 2009

jQuery 1.3 Cheat Sheet

Looking for a handy cheat sheet of jQuery objects and methods? Here is a pretty good two page guide in PDF format.

jQuery 1.3 cheat sheet (2 pages, 8.5" x 11")

Sunday, May 24, 2009

How to install MVC 1.0 on a web server

Eventually you are probably going to want to install MVC on a web server. Assuming you do not have Visual Studio on that server, the command to install the MVC installation package is (all on a single command line):

msiexec /i AspNetMVC1.msi /q /l*v mvc.log MVC_SERVER_INSTALL="YES"

You will need to execute this command in an elevated command prompt window.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Learn jquery

Tired of your websites looking years old? Want a bit of that "Web 2.0" look-n-feel?

I highly recommend web developers learn jquery. The overhead of the included JavaScript (15K) and the learning curve are both so minimal that there shouldn't be an excuse for not using it.

There are not a lot of books out there on jquery yet (at least not around May 2009), but I would recommend this one.

Learning jQuery 1.3.

It's a pretty good book. The index is bad, but the coverage of jquery in the book should be well worth the read.

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