Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in June 2008

Customers and POs from Hell
June 29, 2008 @ 2:42 am

I do most of my business with credit cards and while I realize that the CC companies and merchant banks are making a killing off my sales with merchant percentages, the convenience of having credit card processing fully automated to the point that I often have to do absolutely nothing other than review orders is well worth the extra expense.Credit card processing (or PayPal processing for that...

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Updated jQuery and WCF 3.5 JSON Samples posted
June 25, 2008 @ 5:58 am

I've updated my slides and samples for last spring's Devconnection's sessions to reflect some of the recent updates in jQuery and jQuery.ui, which now have been updated to release versions. In addition there have been a few bug fixes and better configuration documentation for the samples.

Crashing WCF 3.5 JSON Services with DateTime.MinValue
June 23, 2008 @ 5:53 am

Ran into some odd issues with WCF 3.5 and HTTP JSON services hanging up an ASP.NET application. It appears that there are a couple of problems with null serialization and small date value serialization that are causing this problem.

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What makes a Guru?
June 20, 2008 @ 2:19 am

Somebody called me a 'Guru' in recent conversation and I was well a bit embarrassed. What the heck is a guru or what makes one think of somebody else as a Guru?

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A jQuery Client Status Bar
June 13, 2008 @ 2:29 am

Status bars are very useful in client applications to display well status information and having a reusable and easily callable and configured status component to display messages is extremely handy. Here's an implementation that uses jQuery plus a bit of CSS to make short work of displaying status content.

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jQuery Code Magazine Editorial Posted
June 09, 2008 @ 4:45 pm

My jQuery editorial for the Code Magazine Newsletter went live today. It turned into a rather lengthy affair (what else is new?) even though it's a high level editorial and so doesn't show code. The piece discusses jQuery's functionality, benefits and some considerations for ASP.NET integration, but keep in mind that this is an editorial discussion rather than a 'how to article' (which will...

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Unwanted Padding in IE Image Rendering in div Tag
June 05, 2008 @ 7:17 am

I've repeatedly run into an issue where putting an image inside of a div tag as its only content causes IE to render a bit of padding that shouldn't be there. No problem in other browsers, but definitely an issue in IE.

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Levels of Enthusiasm
June 03, 2008 @ 4:15 am

I tend to go through various levels or stages of excitement when doing development and they tend to have fairly drastic effects on the quality and quantity of development work that I do. Here's a personal view of these levels and how they affect me.

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