jQuery is a set-based JavaScript library, that is, you usually select a set of elements (using a seclector), and then you act on that set. You do stuff like attaching handlers to them, animating them, removing them to another parent element, etc. However, sometimes you need to filter that set, before doing an action. jQuery filter() method is there, ready to help you.

Have you ever stuck at how to press Ctrl + Alt + Del in a remote desktop session? I was stuck once, when the server told me that I had to change my password. I didn't know what to do, till after some search, I got the answer.

Same-origin policy is a general concept, that might even be seen in online tools like Google Webmasters application. The general idea is that, as the owner of site a.com, you're only confined to index and get statistics of URLs belonging to a.com, not b.com.

HTML5 has introduced some new structural elements, one of which is aside element. It's a semantic element to include some other data related to the main data, but in a neat, clean, seperated way.

SQL Server uses apostrophe (single quote) character as the string delimiter. Sometimes however, your string contains this character. How you should write these queries?

The Pearl is a novel by John Stienbeck, which tells the story of a diver man, who struggles to save his child, who has been stung by an scorpion. In this story, many bitter real events occure, which show how men can get greedy and loose valuable things when they can't control their greed.

Sometimes you need to write a conditional statement (if statement) in your ASP.NET markup. There is no problem in writing it, when you don't write it inside data-bound controls. But if you want to use "if" statement inside a data-bound control, then your task gets a little trickier. This article explains using conditional statements (if statements) with binding.

jQuery doesn't have disable()/enable() function by default. So, technically when you want to disable/enable HTML form controls, you usually use attr()/removeAttr() functions. From other hand, having a centralized disabling/enabling mechanism, let's you disable/enable other HTML tags either.

Many people use GZipStream, and DeflateStream classes in System.IO.Compression namespace, to fulfill their compression and decompression tasks. However if you have 7zip application installed on your machine, an easier option (IMHO) exist.

SMO to SQL Server, is like VBA to Excel and Word, or like Powershell to Windows. It's simply some classes and methods (predefined codes) to manage an instance of SQL Server installation. For example, using SMO, you can create a database in code, create tables in it, add columns to that table, and chang its schema.