Archive for May, 2005
Accessibility for newbies
In her recent post, Heidi writes about the incomprehensibility of accessibility material on the web. To an extent, I agree. On the other hand, the concept itself is far from being cut-and-dried: Start defining accessibility for starters! While she goes on to recommend quick testing lists for accessibility, I'd be a bit more constrained on [...]
May 19, 2005
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Designing .NET Class Libraries
If you're into developing .NET APIs, take a look at Microsoft's excellent video series Designing .NET Class Libraries. Although aimed at Microsoft's internal developers, the videos provide quite a bit of thought food for anyone seriously into developing class libraries.
A funny part of the sessions is that they have Word transcripts of the presentation. I [...]
May 15, 2005
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Beta 2 installation fun
I finally got to the point of installing Whidbey beta 2 on my home computer. I was afraid of this in advance as I knew the uninstallation tools for pre-beta CTP releases have traditionally been abysmal. Well, it was easier than I expected… until I got to the point of installing SQL Server 2005 April [...]
May 5, 2005
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More CSS coolness
Take a look at this map with a modern CSS-enabled browser (at least IE6 and FF1.0.3 seem to work). Mouse over it. Now, perhaps that's not the greatest innovation in the world, but it certainly works for me. That particular feature (dynamically adjusting the clip property) would also be useful in demonstrations that have nothing [...]
May 5, 2005
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What about Whidbey beta 2?
Unless you've been missing all the recent news on Microsoft development world, you must have heard we now have .NET Framework 2.0 beta 2 out as well as beta 2 for Visual Studio 2005 family. So what?
One thing you should understand is that a beta 2 coming from Microsoft is not just another beta. While [...]
May 1, 2005
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