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Every week in my shop we do cross training. Someone brings in something they are working on, some system that people are unfamiliar with, some new technology, basically anything related to any of our jobs as developers and maintainers of applications. Often enough I do presentations on Silverlight and Blend, introducing my coworkers to different tools and options that we have available to us. This blog is a write up of one such training presentation. I give you, the Silverlight Spinner.
Internet Explorer 9 available for a test drive
Internet Explorer 9 is available for a test drive
Microsoft detailed its support for a number of HTML5 specifications, including CSS3, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), XHTML parsing, and the video and audio tags using industry-standard (H.264/MPEG4 and MP3/AAC) codecs, among others. In addition, Microsoft demonstrated a new JavaScript engine that uses the multiple cores of today’s modern chips to effectively manage computing resources and improve Web performan...
ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Released
Microsoft has released ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM for Visual Studio 2008 SP1.
Note Because Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 RC share a component of ASP.NET MVC 2, installing the ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM release on a computer where Visual Studio 2010 RC is also installed is not supported.
New Features in ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM
The following features are new since the RC release of ASP.NET MVC 2.
Templated Helpers Allow You to Specify Extra View Data
ASP.NET MVC 2 now includes new overloads of the EditorFor and DisplayFor methods. These overl...
A few months ago, I was lucky enough to try out Balsamiq mockups and review it in a blog post (Turn Any Computer into a Napkin). In January I saw a bit of chatter about a new tool called Napkee that was built to enable easy generation of a working user interface from a Balsamiq mockups layout. The tool works with both HTML and AIR/Flex outputs, I am really only interested in the HTML part, so if you are looking for info on how it...
As technical people in a field that is expanding daily, we all run into areas that we know poorly, or haven't been able to refresh our knowledge on this decade. For me, and I'm sure many of you, SEO is one of those topics that fell by the wayside. Sure, I remember circa-1998 tips on getting the search engines to rank your site more highly, such as making sure my meta tags are filled in, using terms frequently that you want to attach to your key search values, even trying to keep the content-to-crap ratio as high as possible. But no one is paying me high dollar to come improve their site ran...
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