vldtr is up and running

JK | Wed, 2009/08/12 - 23:55

vldtr validates your html pages, css files and rss or atom feeds against W3C standards. And you can save your lists to easily revalidate them later. See http://vldtr.com/?key=vldtr for an example.

jQuery 1.3.2 Bugs

JK | Sat, 2009/05/16 - 22:43

After moving a project from jQuery 1.2.6 to 1.3.2 - because I needed UI/Sortable, which is part of UI 1.7, which depends on jQuery 1.3 - I found several parts of of the jQuery-related functionality broken.

Since I had a set of testcases anyway, I made a page out of it to check the status of the bugs. You can see the result here: http://kruisit.nl/jquerybugs/
Interesting to note: the Sibling selector bug does not occur in WebKit.

Speeding up debugging with Firefox and VS2008

JK | Thu, 2009/02/19 - 12:25

I can't imagine doing web development without Firefox and Firebug. Unfortunately, debugging a VS2008 project with Firefox is much, much slower than debugging with IE or any other browser if you use the built-in webserver.

Luckily, a fix is available. All I needed to do was go to about:config in Firefox and set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true. A full load for a rather large and complex page went from 30 to 3 seconds!

from: http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2007/06/17/fixing-firefox-slownes...

Merging collections

JK | Thu, 2008/12/04 - 14:44

ICollection does not offer a method for merging two collections. As merging collections was exactly what I needed, I wrote a bit of code for it. An extension method seemed to offer the most elegant solution:

public static ICollection<T> Add<T>(this IList<T> self, IList<T> input)
{
	foreach (T item in input)
	{
		self.Add(item);
	}
	return self;
}

Because I've overloaded the Add method, this will now work:

IList<string> list1 = new IList<string>();
IList<string> list2 = new IList<string>();
string name = 'J2';

list1.Add(list2);
list1.Add(name);

For the license to this code, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

More applications

JK | Sat, 2008/04/26 - 01:24

It has only been a week since Taggl has gone live, and already we have added support for Blogger (blogs), MetaCafe (the second largest video site after YouTube) and del.icio.us (social bookmarking).
There is more on our list, so keep an eye on Taggl.

Taggl is online!

JK | Fri, 2008/04/18 - 22:41

Almost four months after the idea was born Taggl has gone live. We are happy.

Just one more week

JK | Sat, 2008/04/12 - 23:05

In just 7 days Taggl will go online.

Taggl is almost done

JK | Mon, 2008/03/31 - 23:59

After three months of development, we're nearing the point where we want to show the world what we have created. We expect to have our first version online within the next two weeks.

A New Design

JK | Wed, 2008/02/20 - 23:21

As Taggl is nearing completion, some parts of the design have influenced this new design for j2solutions.nl. The new design is simpler to maintain, but primarily clearer and prettier. We hope you like it as much as we do.