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My name is Ross Hawkins and I'm a developer, consultant, business owner and writer based in Auckland, New Zealand. My current work revolves around ASP.NET, C#, Azure, jQuery, Ajax, SQL Server, and a mix of other Microsoft development technologies. I also have about 15 years of experience with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and associated technologies.
I own and run 2 businesses - Ignition Development and Hawkins Consulting Services.
The .NET 2.0 framework changed the way clientside JavaScript is delivered to the browser. Previously, ASP.NET 1.1 used the aspnet_client directory whereas now 2.0 uses WebResource.axd.
Published on October 8, 2006
I wrote about jQuery wildcard selector syntax briefly back in 2009, and since then that post has received a lot of views – way more than a post that brief should ever have seen..
Published on October 14, 2011
One of the breaking changes which was made with the 1.0 release of the Microsoft Ajax Extensions was the renaming of the 'Debug' class to 'Sys.Debug' for reasons of compatiability with other frameworks. Breaking changes like this can often be a source of frustration..
Published on May 22, 2007
A textbox character counter is a pretty simple piece of functionality, and there's a lot of different ways to apply one to your application. The following method is nice and simple, and can be done using only clientside JavaScript if required, or combined with server side code in order to create a more dynamic effect
Published on December 4, 2006
A quick update to my previous character counter article adding some changes for those using it with Master Pages.
Published on February 7th, 2009
As the title says, this is a very simple but dynamic way of achieving tooltip text on a header column. It's not overly flash, but it's lightweight and quick to implement.
Published on April 15, 2007
A fix for another AXD related issue, this time with the SQL Server Web Report Viewer Control which was being served up via IIS7 on a Windows 2008 server.
Published on June 2, 2007 Updated on April 10, 2008
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