Fridathon: unstructured learning or hacking you can opt-in to do on any random Friday.
  • XSE Initial Release

    After the introduction, some use cases and other stuff that can be done with it, I’ve finally uploaded the NMatrix.Xml project containing XSE (I will unify Schematron here later). You can download it from the ASPNET2 incubator: .NET 1.x version .NET Whidbey version [Read More]
  • XPath vs pseudo-XPath

    Oleg commented on my XSE (Xml Streaming Events) implementation. He has a nice code snipped with something called an XmlUpdater. Really cool. I’d like to see that code! [Read More]
  • While we wait for Whidbey visualizers...

    I’m as excited as almost everybody else with the ability to write custom visualizers in managed code, so that at debug-time I have a better experience and interaction with variables and their data. However, there’re a couple things you can do right now to improve the debugging experience. Here’s my favorite list of “tips”: [Read More]
  • Calendar buggy styles, and the OOP fix!

    VGA found a recurrent problem most developers and users of the MS Calendar control seem to have, namely, its poor integration with CSS styles. Being an OOP fan, I clearly see an easy way to solve this problem. Inherit Calendar and change its behavior! That’s the cool thing about .NET and the new ASP.NET. It’s all too easy: [Read More]
  • RssBandit, XML rendering and <xmp> element

    For those showing XML in a post, you surely know how annoying it is to be forced to convert all the tags to the corresponding escaped sequence in order to get it properly rendered. That is, change the < and > characters. There’s a cool element, [](http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/1998/htmlguide/tags4.html#1424741), which allows arbitrary markup and tells the browser to show it as-is, without any processing. It's a kind of <pre> but better because you don't have to escape reserved characters. [Read More]
  • Damn!!! I broke the whole thing!!! :S

    I’m the one to blame for breaking the site. Sorry guys! Inadvertently, I placed an XML element on the title, and it broke everything. What’s more, I couldn’t even delete the post afterwards because the Admin UI was broken too. I had to dump the Admin page to disk, fix the problem by hand, reload it and finally delete the post. Sorry!!!! [Read More]