css styles (success, notice, and error div styles)

here are some nice looking css div styles for messages

this is success

this is notice

this is error

<div class="success">this is success </div>
<div class="notice">this is notice </div>
<div class="error">this is error</div>

.label { font-weight: bold; }

.error, .notice, .success, .help { padding: .8em; margin-bottom: 1em; border: 2px solid #ddd; }

.error { background: #FBE3E4; color: #D12F19; border-color: #FBC2C4; }

.notice { background: #FFF6BF; color: #817134; border-color: #FFD324; }

.success, .help { background: #E6EFC2; color: #529214; border-color: #C6D880; }

.error a { color: #D12F19; }

.notice a { color: #817134; }

.success a, .help a { color: #529214; }

.error ul { margin:10px; padding:10px;}

.notice ul { margin:10px; padding:10px;}

.success ul  { margin:10px; padding:10px;}

.help ul { margin:10px; padding:10px;}

http://drycodepages.googlepages.com/cssdivstylespart2

The Science of a Great User Experience

dnrTV (Dot Net Rocks TV) presents Mark Miller on The Science of a Great User Experience

Mark Miller on The Science of a Great User Experience Part 1  and here is Part 2

Halloween ladybug

here is elli as a ladybug

silverlight deep zoom

http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
hardrock memorabilia
press the 'v' key and zoom out from there

asp.net handlers serving xml

your handler code

namespace XXXX.TourAdmin.Web.Admin

{

    /// 

    /// Summary description for $codebehindclassname$

    /// 

    [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]

    [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]

    public class VideoHandler : IHttpHandler

    {

        public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)

        {

            //context.Response.ContentType = "text/plain";

            context.Response.ContentType = "UTF-8";

            context.Response.Write(this.GetVideoXml());

        }

        protected string GetVideoXml()

        {

            VideoContext vc = new VideoContext();

            var videos = from v in vc.Videos

                         select new 

                         {

                             VideoClip = v.FileLocation,

                             Title = v.Title,

                             Date = v.VideoDate,

                         };

            XDocument xmlDoc = new XDocument();

            XElement xEleVideos = new XElement("videos");

            xmlDoc.Add(xEleVideos); 

            foreach (var v in videos)

            {

                xEleVideos.Add(new XElement("video",  new XAttribute("VideoClip", v.VideoClip),

                    new XAttribute("Title", v.Title), new XAttribute("Copy", v.Date)));

            }

            string s = xmlDoc.ToString();

            return s;

        }

        public bool IsReusable

        {

            get

            {

                return false;

            }

        }

    }

}

here is the data:

Title	FileLocation	VideoDate	active
Miami, Florida	20080914	2009-02-12 00:00:00	1

now put the url in the address bar
http://localhost/XXXX.TourAdmin.Web/Admin/VideoHandler.ashx

<videos>

  <video VideoClip="20080914" Title="Miami, Florida" copy="2009-02-12T00:00:00" />

<videos>

Props to Lewis

populating a database in ruby

Ruby in has a ton of cool database processes. There are Gems you can include that will randomly populate your database with test data. This free screencast shows how it is done.
http://railscasts.com/episodes/126-populating-a-database

Linq to xml

Linq (Language Integrated Query) works on xml too

<content>

  <gallery Name="All Videos">

    <video VideoClip="20081014.flv" Title="Orlando, Florida" Copy="Feb 12, 2009"/>

    <video VideoClip="20081121.flv" Title="Atlanta, Georgia" Copy="Feb 12, 2009"/>

  </gallery>

</content>

protected void LoadGallaryList()

{

    string xmlFile = this.Server.MapPath("~/Flash/_xml/video.xml"); 

    XDocument xmlDoc = XDocument.Load(xmlFile); 

    var videos = from v in xmlDoc.Descendants("video") // .Elements("video")

                 select new 

                 {

                     VideoClip = v.Attribute("VideoClip").Value,

                     Title = v.Attribute("Title").Value,

                     Date = v.Attribute("Copy").Value,

                 }; 

    foreach (var v in videos)

    {

        lblCurrent.Text += "title:" + v.Title + " VideoClip:" + v.VideoClip + " Date:" + v.Date + "<br/>";

    }

}

output:
title:Orlando, Florida VideoClip:20080914.flv Date:Feb 12, 2009
title:Atlanta, Georgia VideoClip:20081121.flv Date:Feb 12, 2009

jQuery in ASP.NET on Alt.NET

Alt.Net podcast is now on my regular playlist. This one episode gives a pretty good insight on how microsoft is changing with the times. Listen here.

ASP.NET MVC Storefront Starter Kit Videos

I have been watching these videos on asp.net presented by Rob Conery. Rob does an awesome job of showing you his thought process. You can check them out here.
The videos cover

• ASP.Net MVC framework
• The Repository Pattern (sort of)
• Pipes and Filters
• Linq To Sql
  
• Routing
• TDD (test driven development)
  
• Mocking
• Dependency Injection
  
  

TableMaker

http://www.bagism.com/tablemaker/
copy sql results to this page to create an html table like this

142	BISMARCK, ND	BIS	3	Central States
66	CEDAR RAPIDS, IA	CDR	3	Central States
129	COLUMBIA, MO	CBM	3	Central States
15	Denver, CO	DEN	3	Central States
114	DES MOINES, IA	DSM	3	Central States
143	FARGO, ND	FAR	3	Central States
104	FORT SMITH, AR	FSM	3	Central States
59	GRAND ISLAND, NE	GDI	3	Central States
138	GREAT BEND, KS	GRB	3	Central States
16	Kansas City, KS	KCY	3	Central States
133	LA CROSSE, WI	LAC	3	Central States
105	LITTLE ROCK, AR	LRA	3	Central States
139	MASON CITY, IA	MAC	3	Central States
92	MILWAUKEE, WI	MWK	3	Central States
17	Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN	MSP	3	Central States
113	AUSTIN, TX	AUS	4	Gulf-States