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Custom Yahoo Pipes functionality using WCF

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:59:50 GMT

I have been fascinated by Yahoo Pipes ever since I found out about it. Using drag and drop you can visually create a data flow that processes data and returns the result in multiple format such as JSON and XML. I kept wishing for a way to implement m...

Deep Connections

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:33:46 GMT

I haven?t seen anybody talk about how to set up your data layer so it will connect to a centrally defined connect string variable. I have found that with LINQ it is quite easy, and with Typed DataSets it is slightly more complex. In my data layer cl...

Calendars and Mashups

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:25:27 GMT

I have become a fan of Google?s Calendar, and already used its widget in two web sites I made. The API documentation is a bit weak in some spots but I found that in the end it saves me a lot of coding. I recently discovered a service that ca...

Double Postback Mystery

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:34:03 GMT

I had been seeing a strange error come up on one site. Every so often, the logs would show a person going to a registration form, successfully creating an account, then less than a second later attempting to create it again but failing because a foreign key constraint in the DB stopped it due to a blank field the second time.

Using a shadowbox inside an updatepanel

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:22:57 GMT

When a shadowbox-enabled link stops working inside an updatepanel.