Ran Wahle's blog

AJAX and Dates While AJAX in general, and Data-Services in particular becomes more and more in use, you may encounter a problem of sending / receiving dates when you don't usually share the same Time Zone settings.   Dates between services When sending dates over soap the date is serialized with the date and it's time zone (The GMT +/- # part which comes straight after the date itself). When consuming a service through .Net application you won't noticeany difference, That's mainly because it  is being translated to your local time. What's happens "behind the scene" is that...

  SRL, the company I work for, for the past two years, is saying goodbye to it's old hours reporting system. The old system, which was developed long before I've started working thereand served SRL employees ever since, will continue serve SRL payroll staff (untill  we move all management interfaces to the new system)but all other workers are going to use the new one. Usually this news it's not very exciting, not enough to write about, howeverin this case, I was the one who developed it.   It has all started on my first week on...

Before Visual Studio 2008 there wasn't many decent client debugging tools. One of the tools that were already (and for free) was the Firebug extension  for Firefox. Firebug provides, among it's many features an in-browser script debugger which consists some basic debugging features such as break points, step  into functions, watches of local and global variables, automatic variables and so on...   Script debugging Like in VS-2008, you can actually debug your client scripts. the main difference is that you can stay on the browser and not even have to open Visual Studio for that meter. All...