This morning, I had the chance to play around with another ASP.NET AJAX control: the CascadingDropDown control. Like the name implies, it's a nifty little AJAX-enabled control that dynamically enables and populates a DropDownList based on the value selected in a previous list. Kinda like the coding version of those old skool "Choose Your Own Adventure" books.
You've seen this kind of thing in action plenty of times, I'm sure. Remember the last time you filled out a registration form that had you pick a country, then ...
From time to time, I get the chance to take off the "database guy" hat I usually wear around the office and pretend I'm a developer. A good deal of that coding involves some sort of web-based tool or another so, being a Microsoft shop, I figured it was time for me to get up to speed on their implementation of AJAX. For the last couple of weeks, I've been playing around with the AJAX Control Toolkit for ASP.NET (http://www.asp.net/ajax/) and today had the chance to put one of those controls (the Auto...
Just stumbled across this bit o' news that hit the street a little while ago:
Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion
First of all.. Holy hell, that's a lot of money. As the Bloomberg folks said:
Steve Ballmer is attempting the biggest-ever technology takeover after failing to compete with Google
I don't use any of Yahoo's services, not since I cured my online cribbage addiction about 10 years ago anyway, so I frankly do...