Dave Ward wrote his first computer program in 1981, using good ‘ol Microsoft Color BASIC and cassette tapes for data storage. Over the years since then, he has had the opportunity to work on projects ranging from simple DOS applications to global telecommunications networks spanning multiple platforms. 
As jQuery’s popularity in the .NET community has risen over the past year, one recurring theme I’ve seen is the desire to refactor away the details of using it to call ASP.NET AJAX services. Whether through helper function or specialized jQuery plugin, I’ve seen numerous methods propos...Jul. 21, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,384
When you’re working with JSON, performance and security are often opposing, yet equally important concerns. One of these areas of contention is handling the JSON strings returned by a server. Most JavaScript libraries do a great job of abstracting away the details, but the underlying p...
Hot on the heels of the recent ASP.NET AJAX roadmap, Bertrand and team have released a limited preview of the new AJAX functionality coming in ASP.NET 4.0. To see how the new functionality stacks up, I decided to recreate my recent jTemplates example, using only ASP.NET AJAX and its ne...
