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posted February 24th, 2010

One of the most apparent aspects of both my professional and personal life is that I am always learning. As my friends and family can tell you, I constantly have my nose in something and am very eager to share what I just learned. As I have written about what I have learned here, I have realized that I have been holding back on something important: how do I choose what I want to learn next.

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Wordpress Custom Field Search Plugin

by John Hoff on August 25th, 2010

James, You are correct that my code is only accepting a single search input and searching over multiple fields. Logically the search is selecting the

Wordpress Custom Field Search Plugin

by James Maabadi on August 25th, 2010

Hi John, first of all, Thank you for this code! I love seeing examples on making WP a more powerful CMS. I was hoping to get

Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by Simon on July 9th, 2010

This is great, thanks so much for posting. I was having problems using the wp_enqueue_script('media-upload'); - I was getting the properly sized editor but my custom

Apache Optimization and NGINX

by John Hoff on June 2nd, 2010

Tom, Two other reasons besides mod_php quickly come to mind on why I use prefork apache--mod_perl and mod_python. The solution of using NGINX as a

Apache Optimization and NGINX

by Tom D on June 2nd, 2010

Hi, Thanks for a good article. I realize most people use apache prefork because of thread safety issues with worker (or more likely because that's how

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jQuery and ASP UpdatePanel Integration

posted June 1st, 2010 by John Hoff

With my latest gig sending me back into the .NET world, I have been busy migrating quite a few of my tools and experience to play nice with ASP.NET sites. One of my favorite open-source tools that is gaining popularity in .NET is jQuery. For several years now, I have been using jQuery heavily to provide rich interaction on websites. When faced with the basic UpdatePanel in ASP.NET, I was presented with a challenge. I wanted a solution that would automatically call jQuery so that new content was properly parsed and updated.

Tags: AJAX, ASP.NET, jQuery