Teehan+Lax have posted another useful mock up toolset. This time they have created an Adobe Illustrator file with sketch versions of the iPhone interface. Great for storyboarding and creating instructional material for applications. http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2010/05/17/iphone-sketch-elements-ai/ iPhone_Sketch_Elements_v1.zip

Teehan+Lax have done it again and updated their iPhone GUI Photoshop file for the iPhone 4: http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2010/06/14/iphone-gui-psd-v4/ iPhone_GUI_PSD_4.psd.zip

On of the useful things you can do with GridViews in ASP.NET is to run code during the rendering of each individual row. This allows you to change aspects, such as visual appearance, of each row based on the values of the cells. For instance, you can change the background color of the cell based [...]

One of the pain points with developing AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery, and other client-side behaviors is that JavaScript doesn’t allow for cross domain request for pulling content. For example, JavaScript code on www.johnchapman.name could not pull content or data from www.bing.com. One way to overcome this issue is by using a server-side proxy on the site [...]

When designing high traffic websites, it is important to ensure the pages load quickly and not make excessive use of server resources. One of the biggest culprets to slow page loads and exessive use of server resources is images. There are many instances where images used for design and layout purposes could be replaced with [...]

When working with buttons in C# for ASP.NET, it is often helpful to add JavaScript actions programmatically to the button that trigger when clicked in addition backend C# code. This can be used to generate pop-ups, create alerts and confirmations, disable buttons, etc.

The Developer Dashboard is a new tool in SharePoint 2010 that displays diagnostic information gathering during the loading and rendering of the SharePoint content. The dashboard, in conjunction with FireBug or the IE Developer Toolbar, help developers and designers identify issues and such in their custom projects. This can be set to always display or to only display on demand. To turn the developer dashboard on or off, run the following commands from the command prompt on the SharePoint server:

Steve Jobs just gave his keynote address that the Apple WWDC conference and as usual Engadget was there with their live blog (http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/07/steve-jobs-live-from-wwdc-2010). Here are the highlights: No Verizon announcement (kind of surprising) The iPhone 4 to be available June 24th with pre-orders starting June 15th “AT&T is going to make an incredibly generous upgrade [...]