Osvel Legon's Blog

Today the 1.4 version of jQuery was released.

When used correctly, jQuery can help you make your website more interactive, interesting and exciting.

When using the jQuery's load function there is a way to catch the errors

jQuery browser detection was working fine for me until recently.

Here's a great way to verify that your HTML code is an exact, pixel perfect match to the designs provided.

Using jQuery for html encode/decode is easy, just:

How does LINQ to SQL handle the nullable type in the where clause?

Cookie handling in JavaScript - or any language - can easily catch you out. Cookies are limited in number and size and they’re easy to block. However, here’s a fantastic idea that allows you to safely store up to 2Mb of session data without using cookies: Session variables without cookies.

Firebug is an extension for Firefox, but what happens when you need to test your pages in Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari?

A calendar control is always useful, and this jQuery plug-in jMonthCalendar looks great. I think that maybe we can extend it to work like this Backpack Calendar

When working directly with JSON serialized ASMX services, be it via jQuery, pure XmlHttpRequest calls, or anything else other than the ScriptManager, one question inevitably arises. That question is of the inexplicable .d attribute that appeared in ASP.NET 3.5.

Using jQuery image fading capabilities for web animations is cool, but when IE is the target browser, we must be careful using it.

As web developers we need frequently multiple browsers installed on our PC for testing purposes. Here there is one tip about having Firefox2 and Firefox3 on the same PC:

You might have tried writing a recursive LINQ function and run into problems. For instance, the following doesn’t work because ‘factorial’ isn't defined when the right-hand side of the assignment is being evaluated:

You can use Select with a two-parameter lambda expression. You know the version of Select that takes a single-parameter lambda well, but its counterpart is less known (and used).

Are you frustrated at Internet Explorer's insistence on using Notepad when you click View Source? This little application let's you use any text editor instead of Notepad. I'm using NotePad++ with Syntax Highlighting and Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting.

TredoSoft IE6 standalone is really is a great solution to running both IE6 and IE7 on the same computer.

ComponentArt Menu control automatically includes text in nobr tags, which force each item not to wrap. This can be undesirable with longer category names. To work around this, simply add the following property to the control

The safest way to clear the hash is location.hash = '#'.