Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps

This tutorial examines the different layout properties available in CSS: position:static, position:relative, position:absolute, and float.

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Web Services Enhancements 3.0 Hands-On Labs Available

Microsoft has released a series of Hands-On Labs to help developers learn how to implement solutions using WSE 3.0.

The first set of labs has examples of how to implement ASMX web services in a console app, how to use MTOM for binary data, and how to build your own peer-to-peer messaging program.

The second set are centered around implementing secure web services.

Microsoft Enterprise Library 2.0 Released

Another item I meant to post ages ago (probably around January)!

Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices Team has released Microsoft Enterprise Library 2.0.

Enterprise Library is a collection of application blocks including data access, logging, configuration, cryptography, exception handling, caching, and security. This version has been updated to work with .NET 2.0 and includes some significant changes.

Google Maps API Basic Tutorial

A tutorial to help you create your own interactive maps using the Google API.

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Learn how to write Greasemonkey scripts

Greasemonkey is still one of the coolest things running on Firefox. If you’re programmatically inclined, you too can write your own Greasemonkey scripts for the betterment of us all. Mark Pilgrim has written a book on the subject – Dive Into Greasemonkey – and released it under the GPL

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Altova announces new version of XML suite

The latest release of the Altova XML Suite has several significant enhancements for building Web services, integrating with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005, managing XML Schemas, and working with the latest XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery specification drafts.

Visual Studio 2005 Uninstaller

In the barrage of various CTP releases of Visual Studio 2005, installing the latest version is difficult and always requires that previous CTPs be uninstalled. Microsoft has released an updated utility to remove previous versions of Visual Studio 2005 in preparation for the eventual commercial release.

This utility will uninstall all Visual Studio 2005 components including WinFX SDKs, Visual Studio Tools for Office, .NET Compact Framework, and SQL Server 2005 Developer tools.

Dates in Javascript

Have you ever been annoyed that the JS Date object doesn’t include the nice addXXX and subtractXXX methods? The Date Extras Javascript Library adds these methods and a few more to the JS Date object.