Over on the ASP.net weblogs, Microsoft has just announced that jQuery will ship with future releases of Visual Studio . The library will be supported with Intellisense code completion, and will work nicely alongside ASP.NET AJAX. Microsoft will also contribute tests and patches to the project, and will be shipping it “as-is”, meaning developers will be able to take advantage of all the existing jQuery libraries and samples.
Currently, developing Javascript on ASP.NET typically involves the ASP.NET AJAX framework , Microsoft’s own JS offering. While it’s certainly a powerful framework, it slots in as the Prototype of the ASP world, and lacks some of jQuery’s terseness and simplicity. On the announcement blog, Scott Guthrie identifies some jQuery samples to demonstrate the power of the library, and explain why it was chosen to be part of the platform. Scott Hanselman has an interesting demo on his Computer Zen blog, demonstrating the nature of the integration.
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Free Font: Blox Demo VersionFrom: bloground.ro
Post Date: 2008-09-19 12:38:36
bitbox.com is giving away a “demo” version of Blox font.
Hey everyone, I’ve got a free font for you to download, and before you start blowing up the comments, let me explain why it’s a “demo” version. I recently started to sell some fonts on MyFonts.com as a secondary source of income. I have a contract with MyFonts, and giving away a demo version is the only way to still be able to share something with you, without violating my contract. Make sense? Ok, anyway the demo...
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Post Date: 2008-09-19 12:16:44
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more WordPress.com Ad-Free and WordPress for iPhoneFrom: bloground.ro
Post Date: 2008-09-19 11:45:54
For those that are on WordPress.com, Matt and the Automattic team introduced their new Ad-Free version of WordPress.com for a modest fee of 30 credits per year or $0.08 per day. Matt explains the reasoning behind the existence of the ads on WordPress.com and Lorelle writes up us a nice tutorial on how to activate this feature and some information on the ads themselves.
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