It is time for this month’s Auckland Web Meet Up on Thursday 11th September at 6pm and I’m really looking forward to it. I have had to miss the last two events, however, this one looks like it will make up for that. A very brave guy from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team in Redmond will [...]

I am well overdue to post about about this project we have been working on since the beginning of the year. We were involved in the launch of a site called InfoConnect by NZTA (previously Transit New Zealand). This explains it best: InfoConnect is an initiative to help ensure road users have access to timely [...]

If the shinyness and world-record-breaking hype of Firefox 3 had you upgrading last week, you will have noticed a few things. One: FF3 is pretty bad ass. Two: Some of your plug-ins are not going to work in FF3, especially if you use some obscure ones. And then there is the old web development mantra [...]

We are currently looking for .NET web developers to join the team at our Auckland office. If you are interested or can recommend someone for the following roles, please let us know. We will happily pay $1,000 cash for any successful referrals to both the referrer and the successfully appointed referee. Development Team Leader This [...]

With the Adobe AIR runtime become more popular for porting web apps to the desktop, freshAIRapps.com have released a great list of some of the best Adobe AIR apps available at the moment. Some of the more noteable ones include the desktop version of Google Analytics Reporting Suite and the desktop version of Google Reader.

Update panel is probably one of the first thing that you will use once you get your Ajax toolkit with the .net Framework. Other than the basic button in the panel, I’ve just recently found a few other ways of triggering an refresh in the panel,which wasn’t obvious to me before. Other than placing an [...]

With the more work I am doing on the Ajax.Net frame work, the better I am thinking of, but what I found is that sometimes even though the functionalities are all there, they seem to be hidden and you have to really dig deep to find out how to get it working. Just recently, I [...]

All to often I’ve hear the development team saying ‘it’s an IE6 specific problem’ or an IE7 issue, so it was interesting to read on Microsoft?’s MSDN IEBlog that IE8 “will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can” Previously Microsoft had said otherwise so good to note they are [...]

I previously posted about the new features to be supported in Firefox 3 from a session I attended with Robert O’Callahan from Mozilla. One of these was support for APNG or Animated PNG graphics. This provides an option for animation on a web page beyond Flash or animated GIFs. This is good news for web [...]

Turning data into pretty charts and graphs has never been an easy task for web developers. For some reason, this has never been a standard part of any of the major web frameworks. We have always had to buy third party software or more recently leverage a reporting system like Crystal or Microsoft Reporting Services. [...]