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All posts published in October 2006

Blog of latest news, updates, and stories for developers

Where thumboo is already used?

My new started service for creating screenshots of any web page is used more and more. http://www.sharepointkicks.com/, http://www.dotnetkicks.com/ (those two sides only used it while WebSnapr was not working) and http://www.worldwidirectory.com/ [1] are using the thumbnail service to visualize outgoing links on their web site.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, October 27, 2006


How to create screenshots from web sites? thumboo.com is the answer!

From the idea of Juan Xavier of websnapr [1] I started yesterday to write my own screenshot capture engine, and it is working already very nice. I registered a new domain called thumboo [2] (thumbnails and a cool "oo" as it is in Google or whatever).

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, October 24, 2006


Google Search for AjaxPro

Google offers a new search engine service that can be personalized. I have created a first test that will only return results for AjaxPro (hopefully):

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, October 24, 2006


Avoid using Impersonation in ASP.NET

Scott Hanselman [1] is writing on his blog [2]:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, October 24, 2006


More MS Ajax Pain

Rick Strahl is writing about his experience about the new Atlas files:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, October 24, 2006


Who is linking me?

I added a new page where urls are listed that are linking to http://www.ajaxpro.info [1]. The web page is updated frequently and will show small captured screenshots. This service will be available for your web site and blog end of this week.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, October 23, 2006


PRIO Conference and Ready for a New Day

I will attend the PRIO Conference [1] in Baden-Baden/Germany, the conference will be held from 15-16th November. Next, on 1st December I will attend the Ready for a New Day [2] Windows Vista and Office System 2007 product launch in Frankfurt. I would be happy to meet you or have a lunch together.

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, October 16, 2006


Yahoo! JavaScript Library and AjaxPro

There are a lot of great JavaScript libraries available that are used be developers to add Ajax and Web 2.0 to their web sites. While AjaxPro [1] is optimized to run on all web browsers including Windows Mobile devices I got some requests on supporting the Yahoo! JavaScript libraries [2]. I have done some internal changes that will allow you do use the Yahoo! JavaScript files instead of the generated files from AjaxPro. Because there is no JSON parser in the Yahoo! lib I'm using the json.js written by Douglas Crockford [3]. But first have a look at the ASP.NET page (C#):

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, October 6, 2006


Google Search for Source Code

Google offers a great way to search for source code: http://www.google.com/codesearch [1]. If you search for RegisterTypeForAjax [2] (which is the method to create the JavaScript proxies for AjaxPro [3]) you will find a lot of examples:

Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, October 5, 2006