Facebook-Style Expanding Textboxes With jQuery

I was recently asked to create a textbox that would vertically expand depending on how much was written in it. This style of text box can be seen in the Facebook news feed for writing comments under peoples feed items. When I receive this type of request, I usually begin by researching what existing systems … 

 

Thanks for Breaking Things ASP.NET 3.5 Team

I have just spent an intense few hours crawling all the JavaScript files in our application (and there are a quite a few) fixing an issue introduced with our upgrade to the .NET framework 3.5. The entire afternoon in fact was spent fixing a single issue: our AJAX calls had stopped working. The first hurdle … 

 

Do You Speak HTML?

Ever since I have been living away from my home country of England, I have noticed myself picking up on what I would consider misuses of the English language. On the most part, they are Americanisms, for which I take great pleasure and amusement in refusing to understand, until the person uses the English pronunciation. …