desalasworks | Steven de Salas | London Web Application Developer, Database Developer, Web Services and Interface Designer - SQL Server 2008, C# .NET Framework, Javascript

These are some the techniques I use for enhancing the performance of JavaScript, they have mostly been collected over various years of experience using the language for improved responsiveness of websites and web applications.

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Object-Oriented JavaScript Inheritance

September 29, 2011Code, UI

This is simple but crucial stuff in JavaScript. Its easy to forget how to do object-oriented inheritance from scratch when you are dealing with several JS frameworks and each of them has pre-built methods that support this functionality in a slightly different way.

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How to obtain SOAP Request body in C# Web Services

May 21, 2011Code

Microsoft left something out when designing web services, fortunately there is a nifty way to obtain the original SOAP request within a C# web service.

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SQL XML Performance in High-Volume Databases

May 12, 2011Code

XML may be a drag, but you can use it within SQL to turn your database server into a high-performance love machine.

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Mar5

Faster Web Applications with Indexed Views

Code, Web Applications

A short introduction into 'Indexed Views', a really handy performance-improvement tool available in SQL Server.

Oct28

AJAX database access in C# – The simple way

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Today, I’m going to throw the Microsoft textbook out the window and show you a really easy way to get your database records into a JavaScript application. Minimal hassle – maximum bang for your buck. First, I’m assuming you chose a JavaScript framework such as Ext JS, Dojo, Yahoo UI, JQuery or any other fine [...]

Oct20

iPhone & Mobile Support

Mobile

Desalasworks has been released (v1.2) and now comes ready with iPhone and Blackberry support thanks to WP-Touch a very nifty wordpress plugin. You can try it out by visiting http://desalasworks.com on your favourite mobile platform.

Sep15

5 tricks to sex-up your design

Graphic Design

Throughout the course of designing graphics for web interfaces I learnt a few tricks to improve the look of a screen-based image. Here are a few of my favourites: 1. The “Grain and Lightbeam” This effect takes advantage of the tendency for the human eye to always see plain colours in terms of grain and [...]

Jan19

Secure HTTP in IIS with SelfSSL

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A quick guide that shows you how to setup https functionality under IIS using Micrsosoft SelfSSL.exe utility.

Nov1

Logging SOAP Messages In .NET

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C# Web Services provide an easy interface to incoming SOAP data because the SOAP message has already been deserialised at the entry point of a WebMethod. The downside is that sometimes you’ll need to have access to the full SOAP request: body, headers and everything for tasks such as diagnosing any errors (which message broke [...]