Speed up Azure Site

When you deploy onto the Microsoft Azure cloud platform you may have noticed that by default the system will not produce cached or compressed output for the user. This has been designed this way to assist those developers that well don’t know to much about deployments and site optimizations (Not having a go, sometimes you don’t need to worry about this as its someone elses problem).

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/

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.

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.