one zombie in a billion

Just something I’ve noticed with the Asp.Net label control that a few developers don’t seem to have when I check the source code.

In the attempt to make Visual Studio web development more like Application development, text can be added to a page by developers using a label control, which renders out a span tag with a custom id created at runtime. I want to stress, that these aren’t required everywhere you want text…the amount of asp.net apps I’ve seen online that over-use this element is just crazy, it clutters up source code and will no doubt bloat your build time.

The other thing is when you’re developing forms, please add a label with AssociatedControlID before each form element, this makes the label render out as an html label element for the text box, it’s just good mark up folks.

Minor quibbles as I say. The major ones are to do with the compilation and deployment of .Net websites as a bin library of dll files, which is a nightmare when you just need to do minor changes, you need to upload the entire site every time. I really need to look up a solution for that.

I know it’s on a random cycle, but it still put a wee smile on me face when I visited the @Media website and saw this:

In retrospect, something more insightful would have looked better, but I’m still well chuffed at making the website.

So it’s conference booking time for me at work, so far I’m liking the look of the local Highland Fling day on Progressive Enhancement, lots of great speakers there, also of course @Media 2007 looks really interesting, couldn’t quite come up with a good reason to go to the San Fransisco one rather than London other than “San Fransisco would be awesome” but London looks ace too, in particular I’m looking forward to the Microformats session as I think we could benefit from using these practices at work and the Javascript session because I love javascript basically.

We’ve also got an in house workshop with Andy Clarke lined up to help the troops work with structural markup, css and design theory, should be awesome.

Playing around with the new K2 on my dummy blog, love the widgets features, might spend some time this weekend migrating this site over to the new version.

Okay, so I know of the whole tracking issues, but I decided I wanted a new ipod nano to go with my new spiffy Nike+ trainers.

Nano is so cute and dinky, it’s going everywhere with me from now on, sound quality is great and the earphone have a nicer shape than my 2004 ones, which tended to hurt my ears if I wore them for too long.
It has photo viewing capabilities built in, but I don’t see me using that much with the screen so small. The games though, translate better to the small screen than I would have thought.

Nike+ trainers are so comfy, I’ve been wearing converse for so long I forgot how ace nike air feels on the feets. I’ll type up about the integration with the Nike+ module when it gets here, had to order it from the Apple store because apparently Nike have only approved a certain elite of retailers to stock the item, which is a bit wanky really.

Really need to give this site a spruce, something about the layout of the text doesn’t sit right with me…