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Avoid non-FireFox browser issues with Firebug’s console object

21 January 2010, 6:57 pm

The Firefox Firebug add-in is a superb JavaScript debugger. If you’re writing, learning, or debugging JavaScript (and if you’re doing the first two, you’re certainly doing the third!), Firebug should be in the top drawer of your JavaScript toolbox.
One of the Firebug features I use a lot is its console object. The console object [...]

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Using jQuery to work with ASP.NET-munged HTML elements

7 October 2009, 12:13 am

ASP.NET (pre-ASP.NET 4.0, that is) makes it a point of munging control IDs by forcing a fully-qualified naming scheme on both the resulting HTML element’s ID and Name attributes. For example, a TextBox named textboxName, when placed in a user control used on a content page with a master page gets rendered like this at [...]

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JavaScript: The Joe Walsh of programming languages

14 July 2009, 11:21 am

When ASP.NET debuted one of the improvements it brought to Web development was the way in which it hid away lots of painful, aggravating JavaScript. For a long time we thought that was a virtue. None of us liked JavaScript back then. It was fiddly, hard-to-debug, and required (or at least seemed to require) black [...]

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Great resources to help you learn JavaScript

15 May 2009, 12:08 am

Here are some of my favorite and most frequently-used resources for learning JavaScript. I’ll update this list on a recurring basis.

Resource
Description

JavaScript Tutorial
JavaScript Tutorial
JavaScript Reference Series
JavaScript Reference
JavaScript Closures

There are more online references and tutorials for JavaScript on the Web than there are naked pictures of Paris Hilton. To find them (the JavaScript stuff, you perv), you [...]

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