Justin Cooney

Web Development Tips and Examples

  • JQuery DatePicker JavaScript Error
    JQuery DatePicker JavaScript Error

    In this article I’ll cover some of the strange behavior I’ve noticed when working with JQuery/JavaScript for Internet Explorer.

    In my tests, this behavior spans various versions of IE ranging from the older IE7 and IE8, and the more modern IE9 and IE10. (more…)

  • I’ve been looking at various tools that allow you to see your Web site’s statistics and that will try to give you an approximate valuation based on various criteria such as search engine rankings, site age, and estimated traffic to the site.

    Some of these tools work quite well and have impressed me with the level of detail in what they analyze. However others seem to either do very little, serve incorrect statistics, or sometimes even not work at all.

    The Good

    Here are the good site statistics and valuators that I have found (more…)

  • When working on binding a SQLDataSource to a GridView control one goes through a series of steps in the Visual Studio DataSource configuration wizard. A step that I often use but do not look much into is that of associating a parameter source with the parameters being passed to the database.

    This step is quite important and ends up saving me a lot of time when I’m hooking up a WebForm that I have built to a datasource, but although I regularly use a few of the parameter sources, for a long time I was not familiar with what some of the parameter source options even do.

    For instance,  the Form parameter source really didn’t seem very clear to me when I first looked at it and it took a bit of looking into to find out what it does.

    If you are not sure what I’m talking about, here is a screen-shot of the Visual Studio wizard where I am selecting a Form parameter source: (more…)