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Customise Subtext Core Pages - Part 1

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:54:11 GMT

I wanted to take time out from subtext themes for a moment and go over a topic that I think will be of some use to such webmasters that use subtext on a multi-blog platform. Customising Subtext core pages.

Subtext Skin Bonanza 2011 - Skin 18 - Smartone

Sun, 08 May 2011 08:59:33 GMT

Simple yet elegant and smart. Besides easy readability and clean design with a shadow effect, the SmartOne comes with up to 9 navigation menu color schemes, custom header (12 preinstalled elegant headers) and background which guarantee unlimited color variants.

Subtext Skin Bonanza 2011 - Skin 17 - Evolve

Fri, 06 May 2011 08:43:53 GMT

Evolve, theme number 17 to be converted into a subtext skin. I found this theme over at http://theme4press.com/evolve/. The theme is quite nice and has lots of hacking possibilities as i found out while converting it. The header has room for a nice background, also you have option to remove the Gravatar feature on the post headings. Lots of room to play about.

Subtext Skin Bonanza 2011 - Skin 15 - Fancy

Thu, 05 May 2011 13:37:29 GMT

wordpress theme to subtext theme - Next in the theme conversion is a nice simple theme called Fancy.

Subtext Skin Bonanza 2011 - Skin 16 - Adventure Journal

Thu, 05 May 2011 13:36:30 GMT

Next in the wordpress theme to subtext skin conversion is a nice simple theme called Adventure Journal.

Built-in GZip/Deflate Compression on IIS 7.x

Thu, 05 May 2011 10:37:30 GMT

IIS 7.x makes content compression via GZip very easy. Here's how compression on IIS works and how you can set it up on your server in a few simple steps.

The importance of performance testing in a Windows Phone 7 application

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:14:33 GMT

Simone Chiaretta highlights the importance of performance testing your applications on the Windows Phone 7 platform (where devices are not as powerful as desktops and server), illustrating with an example of an issue which caused him performance problems.

Subtext Skin Bueno

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:55:06 GMT

lastest subtext skin to be converted in the series. Bueno is a clean, minimalistic design which just oozes sophistication in both it's typography & structure. Stripped of all fancy design elements; the reader's focus should be on the great content that you produce.

how to store data in sqlserver from dynamically created controls

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:48:57 GMT

Store data in sqlserver from dynamically created controls

Salted Password Hashing

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:48:31 GMT

There are many ways in which passwords can be stored, with varying levels of security. Salted password hashing uses a non-reversible hashing algorithm with the inclusion of a randomised element to make it more difficult to obtain user passwords.

Building an HTML5 App with ASP.NET

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:06:33 GMT

Describes how to create a JavaScript Reference by taking advantage of HTML5 features such as local storage, and offline manifests. Also demonstrates how to build server-side JavaScript unit tests for an Ajax application.

Subtext Skin Bonanza 2011

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:38:15 GMT

Lots of new skins for subtext coming :)

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.

Subtext tip : Don't overlook Static News/Announcement

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:54:34 GMT

Subtext blogging engine has a feature that's constantly overlooked. This feature has a lot of potential if approached from the right angle :)

10 Essential Tools for building ASP.NET Websites

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:34:18 GMT

discussion of several of the tools that Stephen used to create the Superexpert.com website. These are tools that Stephen use to improve the performance, improve the SEO, verify the uptime, or debug the Superexpert.com website. All of the tools discussed in this blog entry are free. Furthermore, all of these tools work with both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC.

Gergely Orosz on Cocktail Flow WP7 application

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:48:31 GMT

Since the release of Windows Phone 7, a number of applications from WP7 marketplace have been reviewed and discussed. We wanted to pick for you some of the most impressive ones and discuss with their authors what it took them to design and launch an application meeting a lot of UI and performance requirements. We introduce you now to Gergely Orosz and the application he and his team developed - Cocktail Flow.

Visual Studio 2010 vsdoc for jQuery 1.4.3 Now Available

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:14:57 GMT

We're excited to release the Visual Studio 2010 vsdoc file for jQuery 1.4.3. It is now available on our website, in our Community section on the jQuery VSDoc page. We're committed to supporting the Enterprise community, and will be maintaining the VSDoc file going forward for each new release of jQuery. - The appendTo Team

Subtext 2.5.2: now works 100% in Medium Trust

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:28:10 GMT

Simone taks about subext version 2.5.2.0. now working 100% in medium trust.

Dotnetkicks Homepage Updates

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:19:13 GMT

Almost a year ago, DotNetKicks underwent some considerable changes including a new overall look to the site. Today, we again launched several new features.

Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die)

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:00:52 GMT

The Apache Foundation wants to kill Lucene.net. If you use it please chime in and help. This post explains a bit more in detail why this is happening

Turn your Razor helpers into reusable libraries

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:19:48 GMT

David Ebbo looks at wrapping up helpers using the Razor View Engine into libraries which you can share amongst your projects, using the Razor Single File Generator Visual Studio Extension, and a little T4

StyleCop Compliant Visual Studio 2010 Code Snippets & Templates

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:06:32 GMT

Doug Holland highlights the October 2010 release of the Visual Studio Snippets library which is a library of snippets and template which conform to StyleCop rules, meaning that the use of them will not trigger warnings in StyleCop (unlike the default VS ones)

And The Winner Is, NuGet

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:09:33 GMT

Phil Haak announces the winner name of the NuPack renaming contest, with the winner being NuGet, winning by a considerable margin.

wcf.codeplex.com is now live

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:45:52 GMT

The WCF Team have been busy building a variety of projects which bring better support for HTTP based services, and better support for JavaScript/jQuery based clients. These projects have all been collected together and are being hosted on CodePlex.

OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 5: Cross-Site Request Forgery

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:58:14 GMT

If you're anything like me, your browser tab bar is probably flush with a bunch of different sites all presently authenticated to and sitting idly by waiting for your next HTTP instruction to update your status, accept your credit card or email your friends. And then there's all those sites which, by virtue of the ubiquitous "remember me" checkbox, don't appear open in any browser sessions yet remain willing and able to receive instruction on your behalf. This post looks at securing your .NET code against the risk of CSRF maliciously attacking authenticated web applications.