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My 10 favourite Programming Quotes

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:45:23 GMT

For this post , i decided to collect some of my favourite quotes related to the programming . These programming quotes were made by some of the famous personalities in the IT industry . So , without wasting any time , here are my 10 favourite programming quotes ...

jQuery 1.5 Released: What's New

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:27:30 GMT

The jQuery team has released jQuery version 1.5, right on schedule! This release includes several performance improvements, bug fixes, major re-write of the Ajax module with extensibility improvements, a Deferred callback management system and much more. Here's a quick overview of what's new in jQuery 1.5

What if Visual Studio had Achievements?

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:29:33 GMT

Maybe in Visual Studio 2012 with XBox Live integration?

ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM Released!

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:12:31 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 3 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The framework encourages developers to maintain a clear separation of concerns among the responsibilities of the application - the UI logic using the view, user-input handling using the controller, and the domain logic using the model. ASP.NET MVC applications are easily testable using techniques such as test-driven development (TDD). The installation package includes templates and tools for Visual Studio 2010 to increase productivity when writing ASP.NET MVC applications. For example, the Add View dialog box takes advantage of customizable code generation (T4) templates to generate a view based on a model object. The default project template allows the developer to automatically hook up a unit-test project that is associated with the ASP.NET MVC application. Because the ASP.NET MVC framework is built on ASP.NET 4, developers can take advantage of existing ASP.NET features like authentication and authorization, profile settings, localization, and so on.

10 tricks that will make your jQuery enabled site go faster

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:43:32 GMT

During the last few weeks, I've had the chance to go more in depth with jQyery and general site performance. I've found some techniques that makes my site go much faster. I don't know if they're all best practice, but this article is meant to at least give you some good ideas.

Using jQuery/css to make your radio button lists look good

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:56:32 GMT

Spice up your radio button lists with jQuery and css. All it takes is a little imagination and a couple of lines of code.

How to save audio to mp3 on Silverlight 4

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:37:40 GMT

As you know Silverlight 4 supports access to the microphone. Besides it can call COM objects on the client side. To save the audio in mp3 format we need: Make the COM object wrapper, which allows us to invoke the necessary Alvas.Audio functionality. Create AlvasCom project as ClassLibrary. In AssemblyInfo.cs change the line [assembly: ComVisible(false)] to [assembly: ComVisible(true)] Add a reference to Alvas.Audio.dll Add Alvas.Audio-wrapper interface and its implementation. See the code below...

The failure of Silverlight is right there

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:16:53 GMT

This is what I think about the current status of Silverlight. I would like to see people in charge refuting my arguments with something new, not promises in the future. Programmers are smart by nature and they need to make practical decisions.

ASP.NET MVC security checklist

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:15:00 GMT

ASP.NET security checklist from a "think-like-a-hacker" perspective: steps one might want to go through once development is done.

Creating custom HTML helpers

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:11:59 GMT

Helpful article from ASP.NET

jQuery 1.4 Released!

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:00:07 GMT

In celebration of jQuery's 4th birthday, the jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone into this release, and we're really quite proud of it.

Parallelism for the Masses - with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET 4.0

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:30:01 GMT

Want to know how to really take advantage of all those multi-core processor machines out there? Tired of waiting for your old sequential applications to complete - while most of your multi-core CPU processors stand by like Turnpike Workers (one guy in the ditch digging - while 3 guys watch from above while leaning on their shovels?) Ever wanted to explore the wonderful world of Parallel Processing - but thought the barrier to entry was too high?

Exclusive Interview With Steve Ballmer: Products, Competition, The Roa

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited Silicon Valley on Thursday for his annual meeting with top venture capitalists to talk about Microsoft product strategy. This was his first visit to Silicon Valley since announcing the search partnership with Yahoo in July. I had a chance to sit down with him just after that event for a hour-long one-one-one interview. In the first 10+ minutes of the interview Ballmer gives his high level thoughts on major Microsoft products and strategies (including Windows, Windows Mobile, Internet Explorer, Bing, Azure, Mesh, Natal and others), competition, the future of search and search marketing, Microsoft's "three screens and the cloud" strategy, the recent acquisition of Interactive Supercomputing and, yes, even his thoughts on Twitter.

Show Dotnetkicks feed in the Visual Studio start page

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:24:44 GMT

A short description on how to show the Dotnetkicks RSS feed in the Visual Studio start page

Digging Into The FireQuery Add-on for jQuery

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:50:38 GMT

Yesterday I posted my first short Screenr screencast * Firefinder for Firebug for Firefox for Fiddling with jQuery Today I decided to record another screencast, and I decided to dig into the FireQuery add-on for Firebug. FireQuery adds extra functionality to the HTML tab and allows you to visually see embedded data elements and event handlers that were added via jQuery. Also, the familiar jQuerify Bookmarklet has been built into Firebug allowing you to inject jQuery into pages that didn't have it installed previously. This enables you to play around with jQuery or extract information for a webpage that might not previously have jQuery installed.

ScottGu: Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:30:00 GMT

"Today's post covers a small, but nice, new feature that you can now optionally take advantage of with ASP.NET 4 - the ability to automatically startup and proactively initialize a web application without having to wait for an external client to hit the web server. This can help you provide a faster response experience for the first user who hits the server, and avoids you having to write custom scripts to "warm up" the server and get any data caches ready."

Is Silverlight the new WebForms?

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:30:01 GMT

Is Silverlight becoming the same crutch that WebForms was nearly a decade ago?

Microsoft creates the CodePlex foundation

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:45:00 GMT

Today Microsoft announce the creation of the CodePlex foundation. That's CodePlex.org.

Limit Number of Characters in a TextArea using jQuery

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:30:01 GMT

The MaxLength property works for a textbox but not for a TextArea. I recently bumped into a JavaScript solution which demoed how to Limit the Number of Characters in a Textarea or Text Field. I thought of replicating the functionality in jQuery and here's what I came up with!

12 Must Have Web Developer Bookmarklets

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:15:08 GMT

Here is a great set of 12 bookmarklets that are useful for any web developer on any web browser!

ASP.NET Menu with jQuery Superfish

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:00:02 GMT

Choosing the right type of menu for a website is not easy at all. The ASP.NET Menu Control is definitely NOT a good starting point due to the horrendous markup it renders. The idea is to use a modified version of the CssFriendly Menu adapter with the jQuery Superfish plugin.

Performance testing of Dictionary, List and HashSet

Fri, 29 May 2009 18:30:00 GMT

A quick little test of how the .net 3.5 Dictionary, List and HashSet compare adding and finding items.

Using NUnit to play around with class libraries

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:26:02 GMT

A short introduction to NUnit and structure basically.

Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:01:16 GMT

IE6 users are still too many... it started with a tweet from a Norwegian web developer, and spread like fire across Europe. Joining the campaign is easy: just add a few lines of code to your site or blog. In this post is how to do it and a little more of background on how to do it.

Chapter 1 - An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:54:32 GMT

This is a rough draft of a chapter from the book ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed by Stephen Walther. Comments are welcome and appreciated.