Dev Docs and another Responsive Bookmarklet

I came across two sources of developer documentation today, courtesy of the LinkedIn CSS3/HTML5 group. The first, DocHub http://dochub.io/#css/ and the second, DevDocs http://devdocs.io/Another Responsive ...

APress Deal of the Day 31/Jul/2013 - Pro ASP.NET MVC 4

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Better Embedded 2013

On July 8th and 9th I had a chance to attend and speak at the Better Embedded 2013 conference in Florence. Visiting Florence is always a pleasure, but having a chance to attend to such an interesting conference ...

UK Connected Systems User Group Recap from July

Just a note to recap some of the discussion and activity from the recent UK Connected Systems User Group in July.AppFx.ServiceBusWe discussed some of the implementation details of the AppFx.ServiceBus ...

Named and Optional Parameter

.NET provides an useful feature call as named & optional parameter. With the help of this we can avoid getting in to situation, where accidentally changing the position of parameter and getting in ...

Knockout.js - Filtering, Sorting, and Paging

Knockout.js is fantastic! Maybe I missed it but it appears to be missing flexible filtering, sorting, and pagination of its grids. This is a summary of my attempt at creating this functionality which has ...

NLog Exception Details Renderer

I recently switch from Microsoft's Enterprise Library Logging block to NLog. In my opinion, NLog offers a simpler and much cleaner configuration section with better use of placeholders, complemented by ...

Google Chromecast cast tab from Chrome browser sucks

Ok so I know it’s in beta. And I should have known when I watched the Nexus 7 and Chromecast press event and the demo showed the browser casting a slide show. But, when I bought one of these little $35 ...

Get Assembly Full Name using context menu

.NET assemblies contain full name, also known as fully qualified name. The full name is stored in the meta data of the assembly and it used by .net runtime to uniquely identify it from another with the ...

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Benefits of Behavior Driven Development

Continuing my previous article on BDD, I wanted to point out some benefits of BDD and since BDD is an extension of Test Driven Development (TDD), you get those as well. I’ll add another article on some ...

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C#/.NET Little Wonders: Getting Caller Information

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past little ...

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Loops, Recursion and Memoization in JavaScript

According to Wikipedia, the factorial of a positive integer n (denoted by n!) is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to n. For example, 5! = 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 120. The value of 0! ...

KnockoutJS 2.3.0 - Uncaught Error: You cannot apply bindings multiple times to the same element.

I upgrade KnockoutJs through Nuget and started getting the error ‘Uncaught Error: You cannot apply bindings multiple times to the same element.’ when I used applyBindings after the main page load. I had ...

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.NET Code Evolution

At my day job I do look at a lot of code written by other people. Most of the code is quite good and some is even a masterpiece. And there is also code which makes you think WTF… oh it was written by me. ...

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Fun With the Chrome JavaScript Console and the Pluralsight Website

I’m currently working on my third course for Pluralsight. Everyone already knows that Scott Allen is a “dominating force” for Pluralsight but I was curious how many courses other authors have published ...

Retrieve .Net Control ID in Javascript

If you need to retrieve a client ID of an asp:net control in a javascript function, then you can use the below function - function $$(id, context) { var el = $("#" + id, context); if (el.length < 1) ...

TFS 2012 API Create Alert Subscriptions

There were only a few post on this and I felt like really important information was left out: What the defaults are How to create the filter string Here’s the code to create the subscription. Get the Collection ...

Configuring SQL Server Express Edition for remote access

I wanted to access SQL Express on my local machine from within a Client Hyper=V virtual machine on the same Domain. This article got me most of the way there: http://akawn.com/blog/2012/... ...

Super Useful Tools for CSS

I came across this post by Jean-Baptiste Jung yesterday, with some CSS tools I wasn't aware of. Worth checking out.http://www.catswhocode.... ...

Div vs span in html !

There is many difference between Div and html. Div is block element and span is inline. If you give padding to div it will work but not to span without set display :block or :inline-block You can use span ...

BizTalk Maturity Assessment Video

Ive just released a new video about an overview of the BizTalk Maturity Assessment which can help you to understand what it covers and how it may help youhttp://www.youtube.com/w... ...

LeapMotion and Telerik RadHtmlChart - Controlling with Gestures a Pie Chart

LeapMotion and Telerik RadHtmlChart - Controlling with Gestures a Pie Charthttp://webapps-in-acti... ...

A starting point for Use Cases and User Stories

Software is a challenging business and is rife with opportunities to go wrong. Over the years a number of methodologies have evolved to help make sure that things go right. In an effort to contribute to ...

Neo4JClient – Getting Path Results

So, let’s get this straight off the bat – Craig Brett has written about using the PathResults from Neo4jclient (a .NET REST client to Neo4J), but times have moved on, and there are some specifics I’ve ...

Better name of Social Networking ! quora.com

After writing my recent post Facebook allow you to abuse in Non-English words ? I am looking for better social networking site. I found Facebook is not more then time wasting time. People share links and ...

OWA for ios devices

I was in the presentation launch of the OWA for ios devices and boy, does that look exciting! We now feature a full app for Office 365 supporting OWA offline and many more options. Support for Exchange ...

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LINQ to Twitter v2.1.08 Released

Today, I released LINQ to Twitter v2.1.08. This was primarily a critical bug fix where the problem was that no one using LINQ to Twitter could tweet. Of course, most people need to tweet, so it was pretty ...

SammyJS and Mustache in ASP.NET - Short and Sweet

I recently started working with SammyJS in my investment tracking web app and thought others might get some value out of a blog post on the topic. I had already developed a basic app API and ASP.NET website, ...

Toggle Function Key Behaviour

A friend on Twitter was looking to set the default behaviour of the function keys on his Surface keyboard. By default they don’t act like Function keys and perform the iconic action instead. So F5 actually ...

NWX Forms shim - using HTML5 form types and validation in older browsers

HTML5 makes form creation and validation a simple matter. The new form input types (email, tel, url etc) allow you to give the correct keyboard type to mobile users. The validation model makes the hassle ...

Was the Surface RT a Bust?

Microsoft released their earnings report last week, and everyone’s making a huge deal about the fact they took a hit on the Surface RT to the tune of $900 million. This was apparently such a huge disappointment ...

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SharePoint Installation in multi-farm Production Environment

SharePoint Installation in Production Environment is bit challenging rather than installation in Single Server (Stand-alone Installation). Many peoples (including me) are looking for a complete guideline ...

DateName vs DatePart

DATENAME function is used to get string of the specified datepart of the specified date.DATEPART Return of the specified date an integer that represents a specific dateConsider a problem where we have ...

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Upgrade an Application from the BizTalk Server 2010 to 2013. One error

I was moving the projects from the BizTalk Server 2010 to the BizTalk Server 2013 under the Visual Studio 2012. I have spent a good chunk of time investigating this error and decided to blog on it to save ...

Big day for me: my first iPhone game launched

This is an exciting Friday. My first game, Doodle Space Fighter ( https://itunes.apple.com/us... launched for the iPhone today. I'm doing a soft launch this weekend ...

Asp Dropdown list of states

I was updating an older application with some changes. I typically use C# MVC for my current projects, however this was a web forms app using the 2.0 framework. I had to make a few minor edits. One in ...

Galaxy Zoo arrives on Facebook

The Galaxy Zoo and its associated web sites have now made it to face book!Galaxy Zoo - https://www.facebook.com/th... Quest - https://www.facebook.com/Co... Zoo - https://www.facebook.com/pa... ...