Blog Title: Brennan's Weblog

Twitter Bookmarklet: I Just Read (IJR)

There are lots of social networking sites like Digg that let you tell others about what is a good read. But you can bypass these sites and directly tell everyone about good reads using Twitter. So I created a simple bookmarklet that you can click to send set the title and link to the page read more..

Modern JavaScript Techniques

In my interview with The Thirsty Developer podcast I mentioned some modern JavaScript techniques. It is hard to explain these techniques in a podcast so I wanted to post them here. Learn more about JavaScript and jQuery at BootWorks, Wednesday, April 22. [ Details ] The biggest problem area I work to avoid when working with JavaScript read more..

Embracing jQuery and Learning JavaScript All Over Again

Now that ASP.NET MVC has been released and jQuery is included it is time for every ASP.NET developer to start embracing jQuery. I personally have been using jQuery and other JavaScript libraries for the past few years. Ever since JavaScript became popular again thanks to the likes of the Google Mail interface in 2004 and read more..

Packer for .NET 4.1 Released

Packer for .NET has been updated to version 4.1. A major new addition is a new MSBuild task called UpdateWebConfig which makes it easier to prepared your web.config file during deployment. There is also the new Combine mode. Packer for .NET Download Note: Version 4.1.1 has been released with a fix to the targets file. Breaking Change With this release read more..

Browser Upgrades, IE6 and ESPN

Back in 2004 I wrote A Great Example of CSS and Javascript in Action which explained how to use CSS and JavaScript carefully due to the varying browser experiences at the time. The situation has changed quite a bit since then. We no longer have to support Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer 5. Now there read more..

The End of IE6

Internet Explorer 6 was released in August of 2001. Since then Microsoft delayed any new releases after achieving dominance in the browser market which effectively ended the browser wars of the late 90's. In a previous post I suggested the dominance of IE6 and lack of releases over several years was bad, but also good read more..

Packer for .NET 4.0.3 Released

Packer for .NET has been updated to provide an easy way to return the minified content directly for a web request. Until now the process of "minifying" content was done either on the command-line or with with MSBuild. Packer for .NET Download The task of creating the compacted content can easily be forgotten during a deployment. And when read more..

Packer for .NET 4.0.1 Released

Packer for .NET has been updated to include a CSS Minify mode which does the same for CSS that JSMin does for JavaScript. Thanks for this addition goes to Chris Lienert who updated the open source project with work done by Daniel Crenna and Michael Ash to port YUI Compressor. Packer for .NET Download Why Minify CSS? CSS can read more..

Presentation: Embracing jQuery

Tomorrow in Milwaukee and Wednesday in Fox Valley I will be presenting "Embracing jQuery." The presentation is made up of four parts: The Basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript JavaScript Tools jQuery Basics jQuery Advanced Last week I gave this presentation in Madison and it was very well received. And this presentation is not .NET specific, so if you have read more..

Torrent Servers in the Cloud

New hosting services in the cloud like Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure could make for solid torrent servers. Podcast and screencast services like .NET Rocks and dnrTV produce content which is pulled down primarily with torrent feeds. Typically services which release new content do so on a schedule and hit suddenly with a considerable read more..