Dan Maharry

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Oxford, United Kingdom , joined 15 Jun 2005

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• Using HTML5 History in an ASP.NET MVC Site

  by Dan Maharry

  Say that each time the user clicks on a menu item in your application, the entire page is refreshed. Not such a big deal if you have a high speed connection, but, if there is a lot of content on the page, this can be a problem. What we need is the ability to fill in the partial view of data and change around the styles on the page without refreshing the complete page. This is where the HTML5 History API comes in, and that’s what this article based on HTML5 for .NET Developers is all about.

• Using JavaScript Unobtrusively

  by Dan Maharry

  With a bit of thought and time, the JavaScript defining a page's behavior can be as quiet on a page as its CSS. In this extract from Professional jQuery, Cesar Otero and Rob Larsen demonstrate how.

• Android ListViews with Dynamic Data

  by Dan Maharry

  ListViews are a fundamental component in Android UIs and are used extensively. In this article, based on a technique presented in Android UI, the author discusses expanding the ListViews’ functionality so a basic list can be made into a really useful list.

• The HTML5 Drag and Drop API

  by Dan Maharry

  In this extract from Professional Javascript for Web Developers, Nicholas Zakas looks at the new Javascript Drag and Drop API in HTML5, its use and current level of browser support

• Understanding The Basics Of Roslyn

  by Dan Maharry

  The Roslyn API is a major step forward for developers who want that intimate view of code. In this excerpt from Metaprogramming in .NET, the authors explain how it works through executable code and then go deeper into more of its parts.

• Building Your First Data Cube

  by Dan Maharry

  In this extract from Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming, the authors demonstrate how to create a 'simple' OLAP cube using the AdventureWorks database as the data source

• Working with Mobile Devices in HTML5 and CSS3

  by Dan Maharry

  With an ever increasing number of mobile devices demanding we code our websites to look good at any number of resolutions, this extract from Murach's HTML5 and CSS3 present some rules of thumb for developing websites that work nicely with every device

• Handling Page Orientation in Windows Phone 7

  by Dan Maharry

  Windows Phones, as with other small form factor devices, are able to deal with both landscape and portrait modes. In this article, based on Chapter 10 of Windows Phone 7 in Action the authors explain how a Silverlight page declares its supported orientations.

• Debugging Javascript with Firebug

  by Dan Maharry

  In this extract from the book JavaScript & Query: The Missing Manual, David Sawyer McFarland demonstrates how to use Firebug to identify and fix three types of errors: syntax, runtime and logic.

• Memory Ordering for Atomic Operations in C++0x

  by Dan Maharry

  The operation that writes a value happens before an operation that reads that value. With the default atomic operations that’s indeed true (which is why this is the default), but it does need spelling out: the atomic operations also have other options for the ordering requirements. In this article, based on chapter 5 of C++ Concurrency in Action, author Anthony Williams discusses the memory-ordering tags used for atomic operations and how they relate to the synchronizes-with relation.