Using ASP.NET AJAX Extenders Part I

Posted on December 1, 2008
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AJAX Extenders are great when used in ASP.NET web pages. ASP.NET AJAX Extenders are part of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. You can download the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit from here.

What is ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit?
The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is a shared source project built on top of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework. Microsoft and the ASP.NET AJAX community has made it possible to develop sophisticated AJAX web applications using the AJAX Control Toolkit.

How does ASP.NET AJAX Extenders fit into the ASP.NET AJAX picture?
ASP.NET AJAX extenders are controls that enhance Web UI server controls using AJAX to create an interactive web experience.

Here are two AJAX extender examples to elaborate the point of interactive web experience.

The first example is using the CalendarExtender and the second example is using the PopUpExtender.
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Download the Art & Science Of CSS e-book now

Posted on November 22, 2008
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Another great giveaway from SitePoint.com. For 14-days, they are allowing you to download a free copy of The Art & Science of CSS e-book if you follow @sitepointdotcom on Twitter

Here is preview of the Table of Contents.
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The Lost Identity

Posted on November 21, 2008
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This is the winning entry for the Extreme Makeover Photoshop Contest. Very impressive creation.

The Lost Identity by ~NKeo on deviant ART

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Finally a fix for what Facebook broke

Posted on November 19, 2008
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Before Facebook released the new change to its look and feel, we could publish a post in WordPress and the feed will be displayed in Facebook. This was made possible using a WordPress plug-in called Wordbook. Since the upgrade, Facebook could no longer receive WordPress blog feeds.

When you publish a post in WordPress, the following error message appears.

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The Revelation of Google Insights for Search

Posted on November 19, 2008
Filed Under Search engine, Websites | 1 Comment

Google Insights for Search is a search tool that shows you search volume patterns across specific regions, categories and time frames. I decided to try out Insights for Search to see for myself. I did a search on WordPress Theme, applying a worldwide filter and looking at a time frame range between 2004 - present. The search result was quite interesting.

If you look below, you will see a steady growth between 2004 and now which is as expected considering weblogs become popular in recent years but what is more interesting is to see that the majority of regional interest in WordPress Theme is from the Asian region, mainly Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Singapore, etc. (Take a look at the screenshot no. 2).
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