Great JavaScript Debugging Article

February 3, 2009

When I first started digging deep into writing complex applications with JavaScript, one of the biggest hurdles that I had to overcome was figuring out how to debug my code. At the time, the tools available were (to say the least) lacking. Since then, the tools have improved dramatically. With the pre-release versions of Internet [...]

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Attending Web Directions North

February 2, 2009

I’ll be at the Web Directions North conference here in Denver today through Thursday of this week. If you haven’t heard about the conference yet, take a look at the schedule at the conference site. There are some great workshops and sessions, with some presenters that I highly recommend seeing. And, oh yeah, there is [...]

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ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for Microsoft Virtual Earth Bug: Cannot Dynamically Draw Polyline or Polygon in Internet Explorer 7

January 22, 2009

UPDATE: This was a bug. I reported it to ESRI, and they have fixed it in the latest release (1.3) of Virtual Earth JavaScript extension. Funny, I’m not sure if anyone is even using the extension, as there was a major lack of response about this issue in the ESRI forums. Are you using it? [...]

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Internet Explorer <a href=””></a> JavaScript Links

January 9, 2009

Using <a href=””></a> links to call JavaScript functions can be a bit trickier than you might think. The issues that I’ve run into are generally Internet Explorer-specific (aren’t they all?). While troubleshooting these issues, I’ve discovered a syntax that seems to solve all of the problems: <a href=”javascript:void(0)” onclick=”yourFunction();return false”>Click Here</a> Hopefully this helps someone.

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GIS Software Developer Position

December 18, 2008

There’s an opening for a GIS Software Developer position in Fort Collins, Colorado. I’m familiar with this position, and know that it involves working on some pretty interesting projects. Here are the details: Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1490 GIS Software Developer position (Research Associate III Special) available with the Center for Environmental Management [...]

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New Amazon iPhone App

December 5, 2008

I love Amazon.com. I buy my music from Amazon’s mp3 store. I buy books and newspapers for my Kindle from Amazon via Whispernet. I even buy my favorite nutrition shake (kind of hokey, yes, but delicious and good for me), mix1, in bulk from Amazon. So I was excited to see that Amazon had released [...]

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Free CDN Hosting for the Ext JS Framework

November 21, 2008

I’m a little late on this one, but I was just reading through some queued blog posts and discovered that Ext has teamed up with CacheFly to host their JavaScript library. This is big news. I still haven’t quite figured out why Google doesn’t serve Ext through their “AJAX Libraries API” (I assume it has [...]

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JSON Array to C# Using Json.Net

November 20, 2008

Json.Net is a great little library that “makes working with JavaScript and JSON formatted data in .Net simple”. I’ve been using Json.Net for quite some time now, but have restricted my use mostly to building JSON strings in C# and pushing them down to the client. It works well for this, although I’ll admit that [...]

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Migrating from BlogEngine.Net to WordPress

November 2, 2008

I finally did it. I pulled the trigger and switched nateirwin.net to WordPress. I’ve used open source Asp.Net blog engines (first dasBlog and then BlogEngine.Net) since the inception of this blog, but finally decided to move to the best supported blog engine out there. Why? Well, first of all I am ready for a simple [...]

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Virtual Earth 6.2 Release a Bit Late

September 24, 2008

I wrote about the 6.2 release of Virtual Earth on September 10th, saying that it was due to be released on September 22nd. Well, it’s now the 24th and we still haven’t seen the new code. There are signs, however, that it’s on the way, including a document on MSDN (you can get to it [...]

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