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I was trying to get a simple piece of jQuery to work and was running up against this error in Internet Explorer (IE): Microsoft JScript runtime error: object expected The problem turned out to be that I wasn't referencing jQuery to the correct path. The trick I discovered, if you're using Visual Studio...

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I was just using Google to search Stack Overflow and came up with the following search results: If you click on the second, third, or fourth items in the search results and then search the page for the term jscript you will find that it's not there. That's because when Google indexes the "hottest"...

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class : e.g. <p class="me"> text</p> jQuery: $('.me') id : e.g. <p id="me">text</p> jQuery: $('#me') element : e.g. <p>text</p> jQuery: $('p') elements inside id's : e.g. <ul id="me"><li><a>... jQuery: $('#me a') will select all the anchor elements...

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We have a team wiki for our development team. It's sometimes difficult to decided what goes into the wiki. I have a rule that after I've been asked the same question three times by a co-worker I put it in the wiki. How do you decide what goes in your team wiki?

I've noticed the following trailing URL logged as an error by IP's of dubious origin on one of my sites: /++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Result:+registered+(registering+only+mode+is+ON); The hacker-bot attempted the same URL about 20 times using proxies from the UK, Netherlands, Australia...

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When the internet is included in an architecture diagram of a system it is almost always depicted as a cloud. The cloud refers to applications and operating systems running on remote computers accessible locally and usually via the web. Previously cloud computing was called: Software as a Service (SaaS...

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This is a collection of LINQ to XML Resources that I've found useful. Daniel Moth has a great diagram and explanation of the System.Xml.Linq namespace . Hooked on LINQ's five-minute overview . Microsoft's LINQ to XML Overview . Hansel Minutes LINQ to XML podcast . Joseph Albahari's excellent LINQPad...

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Had an unusual problem with an MS Server 2003 today. The CPU was being pegged at 100% every 15 seconds for about 12 to 14 seconds. When I examined the Processes with Task Manager it showed that lsass.exe was the culprit and that its accomplices were sqlservr.exe and w3wp.exe. This happened shortly after...

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My amazingly talented co-worker Dan Esparza showed me the Object Test Bench in VS2008 which I never knew about until today. Looks like a productive tool: If you want to test an object and invoke its methods then you can instantiate a class directly from the VS2008 IDE and call its methods. Open the Class...

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