Cufón, a sIFR alternative

Been playing around with Cufon and it’s just so much easier to use then sIFR plus i don’t need a flash file.

Check out this nice little how to:
http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/2009/03/cufon_font_embedding/

Umbraco Force Redirect

In Umbraco I had a need to force the user to be redirected to another page, the easiest way is to create a asp.net control (macro) and put it on the template and there you go. But why this is expensive as it has to go all the way through the umbraco context which uses additional resources. So how do I get around this….

Multi Selectbox Transfer

I had a requirement where there was going to be a large list of checkboxes found on a single page, with other form fields. This is basically a no no as it takes up way to much real estate and also makes it complicated for the user to use. So what did i come up with a simple select box that allows me to select the items i wanted.

jQuery Style ASP.NET Form Validators

I cam across this great little blog about overriding the standard asp.net validators with jquery validators.

Have a read: http://www.delphicsage.com/home/blog.aspx?d=545

Mapstraction with jQuery

I came across this blog by Simon Willison about MapStraction which is a friendly little wrapper for various map solutions such as google maps, yahoo maps etc where he used jQuery to interact with the MapStraction library. What have i done well i’ve made it to a small plugin, well starter plugin at the moment.

Debug Umbraco running MSBuild Project

When i was writing my previous post on “Setting up Umbraco Correctly with MSBuild” i was thinking exactly how can we get the standard “F5″ debug functionality working, well here is a simple solution to the problem.

IETester

As always we have to develop a new site, web application etc and well to get it run and running in Firefox, Safari and Opera is quite simple and straight forward but when it comes to IE you some times have to do little hacks and let alone the different version of IE.

Found this little tool to help with this it’s called IETester and allows you to browse your page in the desired IE version, very handy.

Go ahead and download it: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

Setting up Umbraco correctly with MSBuild

I\’ve worked with MSBuild on previous projects and was introduced to this and the fullness of MSBuild by Alistair Deneys a few years ago on a very complicated project which required that little bit of automation to reduce the work load for developers.

He posted a great article on this blog which has some of the great features in which MSBuild can be used, but to go that little step further some times you need to actually separate out MSBuild tasks and the standard Project file as well as do different tasks based on the build conditions for this i supply the following solution. This is all just default behaviour but just helps in reducing those pesky repetitive tasks.

Delete Work Items in TFS

Just found this great little UI tool for deleting work items in TFS.

http://devmatter.blogspot.com/2009/04/deleting-work-items-in-tfs-ui.html

You will need Team Foundation Server Power Tools installed.

jQuery High Contrast Detection

I had some spare time and through i would convert over my High Contrast Detection over to jQuery.
The solution is actually quite simple once you know how to look for High Contrast Mode.

Introduction
High Contrast is a mode of accessibility for visually impaired users, and can be easily activated by pressing “ALT+LEFT SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN”.  This needs to be addressed and the easiest way layouts resolved and catered for.