http://fivefiguresalary.marcwoolfson.co.uk Diary of your average web developer Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:56:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Microsoft released the ASP.NET Charting Control for .NET 3.5 SP1 on Tuesday and it looks very promising indeed. This isn't entirely surprising seeing as this control was bought from Dundas before being released as a free download, rather than developed my Microsoft in-house. Downloading and viewing the Samples Pack reveals ... http://fivefiguresalary.marcwoolfson.co.uk/2008/11/13/free-aspnet-charting-controls/ We use a lot of Virtual Machines at work (mostly using VMWare) and unfortunately they are not always configured with sufficient disk space. If you need to increase the space allocated to an existing drive then check out the following article for step-by-step instructions: HOW-TO: Increase the size of an existing ... http://fivefiguresalary.marcwoolfson.co.uk/2008/11/02/increasing-the-size-of-vmware-hard-disks/ Google will today release the beta version of their first foray into the browser arena with Google Chrome. Apart from a pretty lame name, what is the search giant offering in the first of its planned iterative product release? Proper multi-processing, allowing JavaScript (for example) within tabs to execute separately from ... http://fivefiguresalary.marcwoolfson.co.uk/2008/09/02/google-chrome-a-properly-multi-process-web-browser/ The next version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer looks like it will be the most 'compliant' yet, with full CSS 2.1 even partial CSS 3 support promised in IE8. But the general public don't really care about Acid2 and the like. What they want are USPs such as Visual Search, which actually ... http://fivefiguresalary.marcwoolfson.co.uk/2008/08/28/funky-feature-in-ie8-beta/ A work colleague of mine made me aware of the rather useful CacheDependency class the other day and I've been implementing this in various places since. It is useful when you wish to store some data in an ASP.NET web application's Cache but wish that data to remain in the ... http://fivefiguresalary.marcwoolfson.co.uk/2008/08/27/implement-better-caching-through-cachedependency/ Don't you hate it when you need to do something so basic that you just can't fathom the best way to achieve it? No? OK, it's just me then. What if you've just got a basic HTML anchor that you want to run some JavaScript event off, such as onclick, but ... http://fivefiguresalary.marcwoolfson.co.uk/2008/08/26/empty-a-tags-for-javascript-event-handling/ Hello and welcome to my new technical blog! This is where I'll be posting various useful findings that I would like to share with the world during my time as a web developer. "Why have you waited 12 years?" I hear you ask. I cannot answer that. No excuses. http://fivefiguresalary.marcwoolfson.co.uk/2008/08/25/welcome/