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Mondays are always a drag, the weekends over, you have a full 5 days to get through before the next weekend - a steep contrast to my uni days, when all hope was pinned on waiting for the end of semester.

Yesterday Scott Guthrie posted some very exciting news about Microsoft supporting the JQuery project in the future.

I’m excited today to announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward.  We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch.  The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

We will also distribute intellisense-annotated versions that provide great Visual Studio intellisense and help-integration at design-time.

This is huge news and a very welcome suprise - especially for a Monday.

But wait, theres more:

Going forward we’ll use jQuery as one of the libraries used to implement higher-level controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, as well as to implement new Ajax server-side helper methods for ASP.NET MVC.  New features we add to ASP.NET AJAX (like the new client template support) will be designed to integrate nicely with jQuery as well.

Can things get any better?

We also plan to contribute tests, bug fixes, and patches back to the jQuery open source project.  These will all go through the standard jQuery patch review process.

Turns out to be a not so bad Monday after all, now if we could just work on the traffic around Melbourne.

.NET / CLR / C#, Developer, Web / Internets .NET, asp.net, interwebs, javascript, microsoft, visual studio.net

An interesting bit-o-javascript posted by Mike-On-Ads that exploits an age old trick of leaking out the browsers navigated history. Armed with the info a cunning developer can workout what gender the viewer is.

The blog posting on the site explains the method used and allows you to try it out. Give it a ago and see how accurate it is

Here are my results:

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 34%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 66%

Damn, I knew I shouldnt be browsing SlashDot that much, atleast it wasnt Cosmopolitan or Womens Weekly (ooops!). Unfortunately, only my current session records the history as I clear my page history when firefox closes. I’ll have to try it again and see if it changes.

Developer, Security, Web / Internets browser, firefox, internet explorer, javascript