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Code Smell Summary and Refactoring

I saw this nice Code Smell summary at Berkeley thanks to Diederik Krols’ anti-pattern blog. The Code Smell Summary (or maybe it’s a cheat sheet) gives nice overviews of bad code […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- December 18, 2006
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AJAx Timeline Widget

MIT has a cool timeline widget under open source. Unfortunately I can’t really stick it inline here, but you can visit the link to check it out.

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- December 1, 2006
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Import Email Addresses and Contacts into your Web Site

Maybe you’ve seen some of the new cool web sites that automatically let you import people from your Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail, or other contact lists. That way your users don’t […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- November 29, 2006
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Moving ViewState for Better SEO

Mads Kristensen posted an article about an HttpModule to move ViewState to the bottom of the page. It’s based on Scott Hanselman’s similar blog post. The nice thing about moving […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- November 28, 2006
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Free Screen Reader Testing Tools

Some good comments at accessify.com about screen reader testing tools: http://www.screenreader.net/ has a free reader called Thunder http://www.standards-schmandards.com/index.php?show/fangs – Fangs is a screen reader emulator http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/ – FireVox is a FireFox […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- November 21, 2006
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Accessible pages: screen readers and hidden content

When developing a web site for screen readers and other accessible browsers, you often have to wrestle with the demands of Section 508 compliance and a nice design. One WCAG […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- November 21, 2006
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Subversion in Visual Studio .NET — AnkhSVN

http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/screenshots.htmlRC4 of AnkhSVN, a Visual Studio plugin that works with Subversion, was released yesterday. From the site: AnkhSVN is a Visual Studio .NET addin for the Subversion version control system. […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- October 30, 2006