While in this current 'manic' article writing stage I thought I'd share a sensitive project I built for a charity during COVID. This is a very sensitive topic so I have gotten all applicable permissions and agreed to ONLY share the concepts which diverge and…
I’ve been putting together a proper filter bar for the blog list: language, date range, sort, and pagination that stays snappy with HTMX. It’s close now—but as always, the last 20% is the spicy bit: dates, caches, and “why does that work locally but not after…
Over the last few days I've been hammering away at the new blog filter bar: language selection, ordering, and a date range picker that tries very hard to be smart (sometimes too smart). This post walks through what I built, why a few things went sideways…
NOTE: This is part of my experiments with AI / a way to spend $1000 Calude Code Web credits. I've fed this a BUNCH of papers, my understanding, questions I had to generate this article. It's fun and fills a gap I haven't seen filled anywhere else. This post…
Me. a .net guy finally plucked up the courage to dip my toes into the world of npm packages! Mermaid.js is obscure enough and odd enough that I could actually deliver something useful! So enjoy. After building some really useful enhancements for Mermaid.js…
Found through a comment on Jon Galloway's blog (no relation), this site has a whole bunch of nice little client side controls including a particularly nice calendar control. Anyway, thought I'd post the link for future reference :-) - oh and here's Matt…
Reading this post from Stephen Sharrock reminded me about something I often overlook, the phenomenally powerful DHTML behaviours which IE supports using HTC files. The WebService behaviour for instance lets you pull information into your client from aribtrary…
This is one of the major UI problems which is essentially caused by ASP.NET's 'one form' rule, as Darrell points out there's a number of solutions out there but none of them really solve the whole problem (i.e., for all browsers), well now there's a great…
Also from the land of UserAgents, just discovered this, shows a map of the world with constantly updating blog entries...quite mesmeric actually!
OK umm, actually quite embarassed about this one...I just discovered this was possible...so I can emit a bit of Javascript which lets me disable validation on a control when some condition is met here's this bit from MSDN: Client-Side APIs Some additional…