Comment Feed for BobTabor http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png BobTabor en Sun, 26 May 2013 05:49:36 GMT Sun, 26 May 2013 05:49:36 GMT Rev9 Re: JavaScript Functions - 07 @shondralynn: Absolutely, I'm betting most real estate sites use it in some capacity ... the question is, what functionality do you need and can JavaScript address it?  That's something only you can answer.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/JavaScript-Functions-07#c635049445824565662 Thu, 23 May 2013 22:23:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/JavaScript-Functions-07#c635049445824565662 BobTabor Re: Part 34: Where to go from here? @Edmilson: Very nice!  Thanks for reaching out, and good luck with Windows Store apps.  Let me know once you get an app in the store, I'd love to check it out!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-34-Where-to-go-from-here#c635049428153748316 Thu, 23 May 2013 21:53:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-34-Where-to-go-from-here#c635049428153748316 BobTabor Re: Where to Go From Here - 21 @ulyssesmm: No, thank you for watching and the nice comment.  Smiley

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Where-to-Go-From-Here-21#c635047423729460221 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:12:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Where-to-Go-From-Here-21#c635047423729460221 BobTabor Re: Where to Go From Here - 21 @JohnC: I'm in Austin occasionally.  How about we make it a cup of Starbucks and you have a deal.  Smiley  Good luck with JavaScript!   

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Where-to-Go-From-Here-21#c635046735515987041 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:05:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Where-to-Go-From-Here-21#c635046735515987041 BobTabor Re: Series Introduction - 01 @Teja: This is it:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/9df7/?rkgid=275668648&cpg=ogpla&source=google_pla&device=c&network=g&matchtype=&gclid=CITurszxpLcCFclr7Aodvk4AFQ

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Series-Introduction-01#c635046567325910054 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:25:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Series-Introduction-01#c635046567325910054 BobTabor Re: Series Introduction - 01 @Raphael:  Big Smile

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Series-Introduction-01#c635044067222901283 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:58:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Series-Introduction-01#c635044067222901283 BobTabor Re: Styling Your First HTML5 Web Page with CSS3 - 03 @KrishMosaic: Thank you!  I'll see your Smiley + 1 and raise you +1 ... thanks for taking the time to write!  Smiley

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Styling-Your-First-HTML5-Web-Page-with-CSS3-03#c635043988072880890 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:46:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Styling-Your-First-HTML5-Web-Page-with-CSS3-03#c635043988072880890 BobTabor Re: Part 1: Series Introduction @David Nealey: Thanks for the nice post!  (And timely ... I needed a pick-me-up.)  Honestly, I don't have anything to recommend to you as far as a next course.  I'm sure they're out there ... just nothing pops to my mind.  Perhaps someone else in this thread could recommend something?  Do you want to learn how to work with a data store like Azure as the back end?  I know some have used client-side databases, even HTML5's local storage feature.  Or are you looking for media-type examples that usually don't have "data" per se?

re: Code in Word ... agreed ... I don't have that today, however in future series I'm definitely taking steps to include more textual resources for easy review, translation, copy & pasting, etc.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-JavaScript/Part-1-Series-Introduction#c635043036504524658 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:20:50 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-JavaScript/Part-1-Series-Introduction#c635043036504524658 BobTabor Re: Creating Your First HTML5 Web Page - 02 @Ebony:Very nice, thanks for watching!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Creating-Your-First-HTML5-Web-Page-02#c635042234589415656 Wed, 15 May 2013 14:04:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Creating-Your-First-HTML5-Web-Page-02#c635042234589415656 BobTabor Re: Part 9: Data Binding to the RecipeDataSource.cs @Coolrw3: I'm sure there are some examples out there, but I don't know of any.  I would have to spend some time on Bing.com and pour over a lot of code to find what I needed.  If you're a C# developer, chances are, you already have the skills to do this ... you simply need to decide HOW you'll do it ... how will you store the data?  How will you dynamically add the data to the project?  How will you retrieve the data and deserialize it into objects in your app.  I'll bet you could figure it out if you don't have an example to pull from.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-9-Data-Binding-to-the-RecipeDataSourcecs#c635042206440348649 Wed, 15 May 2013 13:17:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-9-Data-Binding-to-the-RecipeDataSourcecs#c635042206440348649 BobTabor Re: Part 9: Data Binding to the RecipeDataSource.cs @Coolrw3: I believe you can limit the number of items you display.  The Windows Store (C#) Grid App Template does this by default ... see the SampleDataSource.cs, beginning in line 133 ... here they create a public property that will ONLY reveal 12 items, and spend a lot of code managing which 12 items will be displayed (you may not need all of that complexity).  You could limit that to just 6 or 1 if you like.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-9-Data-Binding-to-the-RecipeDataSourcecs#c635041586112419222 Tue, 14 May 2013 20:03:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-9-Data-Binding-to-the-RecipeDataSourcecs#c635041586112419222 BobTabor Re: Series Introduction - 01 @M Sirait Freddy From Porsea: Hi Sirat, thank you!  I'm glad you find my work helpful.  

re: Java, no, I know absolutely nothing about Java.  There's so much opportunity and so much to learn in the  Windows development and web development world that I can barely keep up with that!  So, unfortunately, you can't know it all and I've decided to go "all in" on Microsoft.  Smiley

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Series-Introduction-01#c635040532328694749 Mon, 13 May 2013 14:47:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Series-Introduction-01#c635040532328694749 BobTabor Re: Where to Go From Here - 21 @Andy: Good question.  I justify it like this ... Bootstrap is meant to work on all browsers TODAY.  Tomorrow (in the future) as market share for browsers dwindle, and HTML5 & CSS3 is more common place, I would hope that Bootstrap would deprecate / refactor its implementation.

Also, from a practicality standpoint, I speak in terms of ideals.  To achieve more complex layouts, some DIVs are inescapable.  And, there's nothing wrong with the DIV per se ... it DOES have a semantic meaning in HTML5.  I don't think it should be your "go to tag" when in doubt ... I think that is what div-itis is addressing.

Check out this example page:

http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/examples/hero.html

(View its source)

Clearly there are a lot of Divs and Spans around that top-most navigation area.  It has to be built using something, and I'm not sure there's a good semantic tag for all that stuff, like the drop down list, etc.

Below that, there are columns with a heading and text.  Perhaps there's something better for that, but it seems like a valid use of Divs in that case.

So, I agree with you (and with myself from this series) ... you should attempt to reduce the abuse of the div tag, but you're going to need it.  I wish I had a better answer.   Perplexed

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Where-to-Go-From-Here-21#c635036385379586292 Wed, 08 May 2013 19:35:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Where-to-Go-From-Here-21#c635036385379586292 BobTabor Re: Part 1: Series Introduction @karabo: Is this a project for a class or something?  I'm not familiar with that exact terminology ... can you describe the functionality you want to build?

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-1-Series-Introduction#c635036131270547942 Wed, 08 May 2013 12:32:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-1-Series-Introduction#c635036131270547942 BobTabor Re: Part 15: Enabling Semantic Zoom @alice: I'd be happy to help if I can, but I'll need more details.  Was your project working correctly prior to this lesson?  Can you isolate the code you wrote and verify that you typed it in correctly?  An errant curly brace or CSS selector could make a big impact on how things appear on screen.  Can you check your work against the actual Hands On Lab document that I'm following to make sure your code matches theirs?  Again, I will try to help you get past this ... just let me know.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-JavaScript/Part-15-Enabling-Semantic-Zoom#c635035314347120794 Tue, 07 May 2013 13:50:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-JavaScript/Part-15-Enabling-Semantic-Zoom#c635035314347120794 BobTabor Re: Styling Your First HTML5 Web Page with CSS3 - 03 @KevinTalley: Wow, thanks Kevin.  You rock!  I just tested the site ... chose the Text Field option and it pre-populates the text area with boilerplate HTML5.  I clicked the validate button and all works fine.  Just do *that* first to see if you can get it to work.  If you can, then try the next part ... substitute your HTML5 in and see what result you get.  If you still have a problem, please feel free to write me personally and we can walk through it.  bob at ... you know the rest. Wink

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Styling-Your-First-HTML5-Web-Page-with-CSS3-03#c635034689089140772 Mon, 06 May 2013 20:28:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Styling-Your-First-HTML5-Web-Page-with-CSS3-03#c635034689089140772 BobTabor Re: Form Validation and Other Future HTML5 Form Enhancements - 11 @mobell32: Hmm... Take a look at this page on IE 10:

http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/inputs_misc.html

... it works for me.  Are you sure you / I have them typed in correctly?

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Form-Validation-and-Other-Future-HTML5-Form-Enhancements-11#c635034488055392872 Mon, 06 May 2013 14:53:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Form-Validation-and-Other-Future-HTML5-Form-Enhancements-11#c635034488055392872 BobTabor Re: Getting Started with jQuery - 14 @starforce: I think that's a good point ... JavaScript / jQuery does have it's limitations insomuch that there might be other factors on the user's computer that could prevent it's proper function.  Therefore, it is always best on real websites to limit its use to "nice to have features" and not "must have features".  The exception would be a jQuery-based app.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Getting-Started-with-jQuery-14#c635031991467569062 Fri, 03 May 2013 17:32:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Getting-Started-with-jQuery-14#c635031991467569062 BobTabor Re: jQuery Selectors - 15 @starforce: Glad you like the series!  Be sure to read through the comments below each video ... there's a spot or two where jQuery 2.0 (recently released) deprecated some of the methods I was teaching / relying on.  There's usually a good alternative, but just wanted to give a "heads up" nonetheless.  Smiley

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/jQuery-Selectors-15#c635031922872438323 Fri, 03 May 2013 15:38:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/jQuery-Selectors-15#c635031922872438323 BobTabor Re: Series Introduction - 01 @Juan Pablo: Hi Juan, it's great to hear that the videos can help you pursue certification.  You said you are dedicating your life time Software Engineering ... that's what it takes -- a lifetime of dedication.  But don't forget to have a little fun with  the important things of life, too.  Smiley

As fars as ASP.NET videos go, I have some of that on my personal website, and will be adding even more in the summer.  Check it out.

Good luck!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Series-Introduction-01#c635031850646945998 Fri, 03 May 2013 13:37:44 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Series-Introduction-01#c635031850646945998 BobTabor Re: Form Validation and Other Future HTML5 Form Enhancements - 11 @Jerry: Great feedback!  You're absolutely right.  These are legit nits.  Smiley  Thanks Jerry -- bt

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Form-Validation-and-Other-Future-HTML5-Form-Enhancements-11#c635030525753014509 Thu, 02 May 2013 00:49:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Form-Validation-and-Other-Future-HTML5-Form-Enhancements-11#c635030525753014509 BobTabor Re: Part 31: Detecting Trial Versions @Ben: Thanks Ben, good solution!  Thanks for writing - bt

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-31-Detecting-Trial-Versions#c635030524793300142 Thu, 02 May 2013 00:47:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-31-Detecting-Trial-Versions#c635030524793300142 BobTabor Re: Series Introduction - 01 @woodbury55: Thanks for the nice words.  Here's the other series I've already created:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Beginner

As far as ASP.NET MVC ... I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but I do have some of that on my own website.

And yes, I hear the Steve Martin thing occasionally.  I've decided to tell a joke in exchange for a coffee.  Send me a Starbucks gift card and I'll tell you a Steve Martin joke.  Wink

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Series-Introduction-01#c635030425261236296 Wed, 01 May 2013 22:02:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Series-Introduction-01#c635030425261236296 BobTabor Re: Part 15: Implementing Type Converters @aki: Good to hear ... were you missing a XAML namespace declaration associated with the d: prefix?

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-15-Implementing-Type-Converters#c635029509212361985 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:35:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-15-Implementing-Type-Converters#c635029509212361985 BobTabor Re: Series Introduction - 01 @Adriana: The great thing about software development is that it's a meritocracy: nothing matters except your knowledge and skill.  There's no personal politics in software development ... the computer discriminates against us all equally.  Smiley

You may want to briefly jump to the very end of this series ... in the final video, I suggest a few things you can do to build your skill.  Find any web page (start with a simple one!) and try to re-create it from scratch.  JUST FOR PRACTICE copy the images down from the original web page (right-click, Save Image As ...) and then write the HTML5 and CSS3 yourself, not looking at what the original author did.  After you've challenged yourself for a few hours, undoubtedly you'll get stuck and then you can look at how the original developer created that given page.  There may be a lot of JavaScript in the page for things like tracking or other dynamic functionality, but ignore that and only look at the HTML5 and CSS3.  Websites for small businesses might be a good place to start, OR purchase a SIMPLE HTML5 template (for under $10) from here:

http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/personal

... to see if you can re-create it, or modify it, or just understand what and why they did what they did.

But yeah, perhaps I should create a series of "challenges" for HTML5 / CSS3 developers to learn specific techniques.  Good idea.

Best wishes to you!  Stick with it ... baby steps and patience.  No one learns this stuff in a few days.  It takes weeks, months, even years to master it a little at a time.

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