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 ...

APress Deal of the Day 23/Jul/2013 - ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes"ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes is a practical guide for developers creating modern web applications on the ...

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 ...

APress Deal of the Day 21/Jul/2013 - Pro T-SQL 2012 Programmer's Guide

Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro T-SQL 2012 Programmer's Guide"Pro T–SQL 2012 Programmer’s Guide is every developer’s key to making full use of SQL ...

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 ...

APress Deal of the Day 20/Jul/2013 - Pro CSS3 Animation

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro CSS3 Animation"Pro CSS3 Animation will teach you how to apply CSS3 animation technology to transform and animate your ...

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... ...

Microsoft Health Vault is ready to use form Bangladesh

You are a human being and you or your family sick sometimes and go to doctor to take suggestions to recover from sickness. Doctor ask your symptoms/problems, check you old reports, ask for old diseases/history ...

Configuring you applications to connect to readable replica SQL 2012 HA

As you may know by now if you’ve been following SQL 2012 HA capabilities, AlwaysOn availability groups allows readable secondary replicas to allow offloading of backups, database consistency checks, index ...

Windows Azure Service Bus Relay – Certificate Trust Chain Verification Error

Recently we had a problem with our IIS Hosted WCF services which were listening to the Windows Azure Service Bus Relay. The symptoms were as follows: Only the production environment was affected All other ...

Knockout with Prototype and Inheritance

I’m refactoring code to use a prototypal inheritance instead of the Revealing Module Pattern. I’m using TypeScript for inheritance, seeing what it kicks out and copying and modifying that (that’d be worth ...

Clean code talks by Misko Hevery - Part 4: Global State and Singletons

Global state (and singletons) is a big problem for testing because the global state cannot be controlled by the tests.Dependency injection enforces the order of initialization at compile time. No magic ...

Failed to retrieve basic properties of pipeline component

Just a note to self in case I bump into this one again. I created a custom pipeline component and when adding it to the pipeline designer then clicking save you get the following error: Failed to retrieve ...

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Adapters.SAP.SAPGInvoker.dll'

Bad surprise today, When trying to create a receive location WCF-SAP in Biztalk administration console, I received this nice message : ===========================... Exception has been thrown by the ...

Developing a SiteCore MVC site without SiteCore

We’ve just kicked off a new project delivering a partner website using SiteCore, the commercial ASP.NET Content Management System. We’re running the latest version, so outside of the CMS templates, the ...

APress Deal of the Day 16/Jul/2013 - A Programmer's Guide to C# 5.0

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is A Programmer's Guide to C# 5.0"A Programmer’s Guide to C# takes you deep into the C# language, showing you the details ...

APress Deal of the Day 15/Jul/2013 - Coding Interviews

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Coding Interviews"This book takes readers through a set of interview questions programmers are likely to be asked sharing ...

Surf the Universe with APOD

APOD (the Astronomy Picture of the Day web site) have recently added a random surf feature that will take you to some random picture from the past!Try it at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/r... ...

Using Dependency Injection When Calling .NET Over COM

COM provides a way for legacy systems to use components written in modern languages and frameworks, and allows the steady porting of components away from the legacy system and into something more friendly. ...

JavaScript Hoisting

In JavaScript, hoisting moves all declarations to the top of their scope. As JavaScript is function-scoped, this means all declarations are moved to the start of the function despite the fact that they ...

New Horizon spots Charon

The New Horizons spacecraft has now close enough to the Pluto system to see Pluto's satellite Charon. It is now 35 years since the discovery of Charon. New Horizon's image is much that the original discovery ...

APress Deal of the Day 13/Jul/2013 - Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012

Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012"Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012 introduces SQL Server’s spatial feature set, and covers ...

Getting OneNote 2013 to Work With On-Premise SharePoint

*Note – This is reposted from my Surface Pro-focused blog “Surface At Work”. Check it out if you want to read specifically about my experiences putting my Surface Pro device through its paces in a pure ...

Error 409 WebServiceBindingAttribute is required on proxy classes. after creating a new build

After creating new build type 32bitDebug (based on Debug) according to How to: Create and Edit Configurations I received the following error during compileError 409 WebServiceBindingAttribute is required ...

Review: Windows 8.1 Preview First Impressions

I have been using Windows 8 since just before the release candidate came out. While don’t see it as a perfect operating system I really enjoy it in both Metro mode and desktop mode. So what does the 8.1 ...

SAML2 FederationMetadata validation

I was working on a project using a SAML2 FederationMetadata document. The Xml signature of the document had to be verified. I had some issues out of the box so I thought I'd document them"SignatureDescription ...

Book Review - Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything by Jeffrey Needham, O'Reilly Media

I am sure every IT pro, executive or about anyone who interfaces databases on a regular basis already heard of the Big Data term. However, despite is was arguably coined back in year 2000 the actual raise ...

Referencing files TypeScript 0.9

I was trying to reference an existing JavaScript file from my new TypeScript file using /// <reference path="app.js"/> It wasn’t being found, until I found that you need to have the file saved as ...

Gmail Automatic Sorting is awesome !

Gmail is a nice app for reading mail. You can use Gmail on your phone, desktop or any other device very easily. Till now it have some kind of trouble for user. now they have fix it. The problem is with ...

Quick query to dump table field name and type for data mapping document

SELECT COLUMN_NAME AS [Field Name] , (DATA_TYPE + CASE WHEN CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH IS NOT NULL THEN '(' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH) + ')' ELSE '' END ) AS [Field Type] FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS ...

Feedback allowed rule

I apologize for some feedbacks on my posts that didn't make through. It's a simple security precaution on my part that if your feedback contains any link, I do not let it through. If you have a link you ...