Fixing Strange Home Route Behavior in ASP.NET MVC

Navigating to the home page in an ASP.NET MVC application sometimes just doesn't work. Here is a short article on how to make the ASP.NET MVC home controller's index action do the right thing.

jQuery Slideshow Demo using prettyPhoto

I created a jQuery slideshow demo with jQuery, of course, and prettyPhoto, an easy-to-use and feature-rich plugin for creating slideshows. In this case, the images used are from "afield-afloat," by Hank Andrews, an early 1970s newspaper column of hunting and fishing tips.

ZIP Code Lookup with the Google Geocoder

My simple, kind of raw REST demo of using the Google Geocoder for ZIP code lookup is working. Useful and simple, take a look.

Make Your Own Twitter Badge with jQuery

For the geekily inclined, you can easily make your own Twitter badge using jQuery and the Twitter API and display your latest tweets on your website. Step-by-step instructions. Do it now!

Flickr - Google Maps Mashup and Google Geolocation Demo

I created two more demos using the Google Maps API, a mashup of my Flickr photostream plotted on a Google map and a simple geolocation demo using jQuery and the Google Maps API. I can't stop...

jQuery REST YouTube Demo and Who is my Representative Demo

I created two new demos, a jQuery REST YouTube Data API demo and a jQuery REST Who is my Representative demo. These both illustrate how to get and manipulate data from yet more sites that have public APIs.

My FeedServer.ashx handler (click on the Show/Hide Code button on the above demo pages) allows me to do this pretty easily now, and since I've proven a lot of the concepts I was curious about, maybe it's time to move on. However, AuthSub is another thing I want to illustrate, along with some more interactive examples of using the web as a big database (i.e. mashups), so I'll probably continue a little longer until I'm out of gas.

jQuery and jqGrid Plugin Demo

I created a simple jQuery jqGrid Plugin demo. This illustrates how to bind jqGrid to a JSON data source. I wrote a simple handler to return JSON data from my sample database using SubSonic. More to come using this nice grid plugin.

Patagonia Likes our Backyard Adventure

After reading all these great accounts on the Patagonia blog, I was shocked last week when they published my backyard adventure, of my wife and I taking a walk in our backyard. I think we stuck to the spirit of the rules, a real "backyard" adventure. Enjoy.

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jQuery Autocomplete

I created a standalone jQuery Autocomplete Demo. Since I used the jQuery Autocomplete plugin in the jQuery RSS demo with preview, I figured I should pull the autocomplete part out and create a separate demo for it. This illustrates how to trigger the retrieval of data from this server (the RSS URLs in the jQuery preview example) as well as examples for getting the top headlines from Reuters and my own delicious bookmarks.

Using jQuery to Retrieve RSS Feeds - Round 2

After yesterday's demo showing how to retrieve an RSS feed using jQuery, I wanted to do the same thing but with a single line display of each post's title, then a preview when you hover over the item. The jQuery RSS demo with preview shows how to do this.

Using jQuery to Retrieve RSS Feeds

The jQuery RSS demo is working. This uses a server-side handler to retrieve, parse and display the RSS feed you specify. It supports RSS but does NOT yet support ATOM. I'm working on it when I get some time...

Code Snippets Syntax Highlighting

After exploring Google's Code Prettify and Syntax Highlighter for syntax highlighting of code examples, I decided on the latter. While I like the performance and clean style of Google's highlighting, Syntax Highlighter is just much richer looking and structured. Also, the clipboard, plain view and print features are very nice. See the Code and Demos for examples.

REST Demos using jQuery and JSON for Google, Twitter and Flickr

I created a few examples using jQuery to get data from the Google AJAX Search, Twitter and Flickr APIs. These are very basic examples but hopefully useful. Tracking down even the basics is sometimes a pain, so once found I'm squirreling them away on the Code and Demos page.

This History of this Website

A visual tour of this site's evolution over the past four years, done with the help of jQuery and the lightbox plugin.

This Site has a New Look

Hey, new year, new look. Plus no one's been here in a while, judging by the Google Analytics stats. I'm aiming to change that a little this year. Just a small bit.