In early January of this year I was implementing some JavaScript code that does a lot of processing on the client side with the help of jQuery. It’s part of a project where my customer asked for the possibility of answering a questionnaire in two ways: using a Wizard (one question at a time) and Lis...

An easy way to implement LESS (the dynamic stylesheet language) with MVC4 bundling. Very simple approach.

Lists some very useful (free, open-source) layout plugins that you can easily incorporate on the front end of your page!

This is a great article that explains how to get around the cross-domain issue for ajax calls; as well, it describes a free jsonp service that allows you to minify your urls. Something to practice on!

Going over some awesome jQuery plugins for your front-end UI

jQuery UI Helpers is a set of HTML Helpers which help you to integrate jQuery UI into your ASP.NET MVC application. They have similar look and feel to the built in helpers (e.g. DatepickerFor), but also implement a fluent configuration API for advanced scenarios. The helpers only generate HTML eleme...

“Don't Make Me Think!” is a book by Steven Krug that deals with web usability and user interface design patterns. This book touches on user patterns, designing for scanning, navigation design, web page layout, and usability testing.

There are several benefits to using cascading style sheets (CSS) in the design of a website, but they have lacked the attention it deserves partially due of a large learning curve needed to fully understand its capabilities. There has been a real emphasis recently on CSS because of the Web 2.0 movem...

User interfaces are changing. Touch, multitouch, gestures (Minority Report like control), ... On the other hand all these predictions focus on the cool new stuff and ignore conventional demands.

Thoughts on how a mobile phone's camera could be used to create a point and click interface (without a touch screen).

This post reviews several frameworks used for creating graphical user interfaces. I've decided to create such a review after noticing many programmers take a specific GUI framework for granted, as it is their automatic-choice-by-tool (i.e., they use what they're IDE let them, barely understanding th...

Before you rush and view my blockquote and jump to the conclusion “oh, it’s just that standard threading issue”, well let me assure you this is different to the norm, and please.. Yesterday, was a very annoying day dealing with multi-threading in my app, you would think I would be good at this by n...

This article demonstrates creating an elegant native Vista "CommandLink" with pre-Vista OS compatibility in a few easy steps. Also all the steps are wrapped up into a sample application with source code posted below for immediate use.

Examples and explanation on integrating a lightweight slick Vista-style task dialog (extended message dialog) within managed .NET code. Both Vista and lower compatible through emulation techniques.