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Myself and Simone have been in discussions about creating a jQuery plugin for many months now.  With real life, time on both parts hasn’t been on our side. Simone has co-authored a MVC book entitled “Beginning ASP.NET MVC”. I’ve been busy with work, getting fit, holidays, and other projects (more details coming soon). We've both now managed to make a start on the plugin which resulted in me looking at unit testing frameworks for JavaScript. I was quite surprised to find the amount I did hence this short and sweet post. List of JavaScript testing frameworks QUnit -...

We all take our computer, laptop for granted.   We turn them on, we do what ever it is we want to do and then turn it off.  What would happen if it didn't turn back on?  What would happen if the hard drive decided to call it a day or a nasty virus wipes everything? Realisation sets in you remember that you have photo's/iTunes albums on there that you don't have another copy of. It's all happened to us at some point, just depends on the extent of the damage.  Unfortunately I learned the hard way many years ago,...

After installing Visual Studio 2008 on my laptop and having some spare time I decided to look at the ASP.NET MVC framework.  The framework is an architectural pattern based on model-view-controller.  I'm not going to re-invent the wheel and go into more detail about the framework as there are quite a few good articles dedicated to the subject.  Where can I get it ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions Preview ASP.NET MVC Introduction to the framework What is the MVC pattern (Wiki) Scott Guthries - ASP.NET MVC Framework ...