In my previous post I mentioned that I was looking for an answer to the age-old question of how to manage common CSS and JavaScript across multiple projects (specifically ASP.Net projects). Using T4 templates, I was able to not only create a common location for CSS files, but to take it a step farther and use Less in ordr to simplify that common CSS even further.

For the past few months, I have been looking for a way to define some JS and CSS files that would be shared between multiple projects in an ASP.Net solution. The intent is to define common scripts and CSS in one place instead of trying to keep multiple copies of it in sync or implementing an internal CDN with a versioning scheme. The challenge is finding a way to do this with a minimum of impact on the development, deployment, and production processes.

Recently I decided to start doing JavaScript code katas. I've been using JavaScript for around ten years, but there there are still a lot of aspects I don't know well or that I could use more practice in. Case in point, I had never used a unit testing framework with javascript.

All the way back in 2010 Google realized that JavaScript is a dead end programming language. Here is what was posted on the com.googlegroups.google-caja-discuss list Javascript has fundamental flaws that cannot be fixed merely by evolving the lan…

What is a web developer? Recently I was involved in a discussion about the skills a web developer is expected to have and how interesting it has been to watch common bad practices (like table layout and SQL injection) continue to spread. So in the nature of Denis's What does a SQL Server developer need to know? post, I present the web developer breakdown.

In an attempt to overcome by perfectionism I've decided to open source my long term side project Machete for the world to see. Machete is my own dialect of the ECMAScript 5 standard or as it is more commonly called JavaScript. The compiler is wr…

Now here is some exciting news if you are a web developer in a MSFT shop. Microsoft will ship jQuery with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio.

John Resig writes:

Microsoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Their JavaScript offering today includes the ASP.NET Ajax Framework and they’re looking to expand it with the use of jQuery. This means that jQuery will be distributed with Visual Studio (which will include jQuery intellisense, snippets, examples, and documentation).

Additionally Microsoft will be developing additional ...