There have been over 350+ submissions to the 10K Apart contest conducted by Microsoft & Event Apart that has a prize money of over $10K. The important rule was that participants should build a web app whose total file size including images, scripts & markup, shouldn’t be over 10K. All code must run client-side although 3rd-party Web services & JavaScript libraries like jQuery, Prototype & Typekit are allowed. The code must be standards compliant & usage of HTML5 is encouraged.The submissions...
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Sunday, 29 August 2010
ASP.NET powers websites that have millions of page views per day -Tesco Dell Costco National Health Service, UK HSN.comMatch.comMySpace.com; detailsSites using ASP.NET MVC -StackOverflow.com; detailsMonster.comDimecasts.netMarketWatch work in progress..Also see: How LARGE websites manage performance & scalabil...
Michael Otey's tour of Visual Studio 2010 in the September issue of SQL Server magazine informs about interesting new changes. Excerpts -...Windows Presentation Foundation–based IDE... after you convert a Visual Studio 2008 project to Visual Studio 2010, you’ll no longer be able to open the project with Visual Studio 2008IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2010 supports two modes: statement completion and the new suggestion mode. Suggestion mode lets you use members before they’re defined. You can toggle between completion mode and suggestion mode using...
Saturday, 28 August 2010
A friend asked me this question & this is my attempt at answering it.A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain (like .com, .net, .org) generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory.Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for determining an appropriate trustee for each ccTLD. Each country's trustee may assign registrars to sell domain names with suffixes pertaining to their country as per their policies.A country code second-level domain (ccSLD) is a...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Crowdsourced answers to questions on "Hidden features of product/service X" on the StackOverflow family of sites, make for interesting reading. I picked a few tips & trivia I didn't know earlier, from a similar thread on Google Search -1. The calculator feature in Google understands not just numbers but also words. This query would still return the correct answer -(five plus seven) divided by six2. Searching for "population...
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
I liked the way Google Insights for Search graphically shows country-wise trends for keywords you search on with a Heat Map & Slider. The slider below the heat map neatly provides the interactivity. The below images show the web search interest for the keyword "swine flu" in May-August 2010 & the same period in 2009.Someday I would like to create a generic data visualization control out of the Heat Map-Slider combo (or is there one already?)...
Monday, 23 August 2010
Peter-Paul Koch, better known as PPK, has helped web developers worldwide with his browser compatibility tables on QuirksMode.org. He has since been researching on mobile browsers. If you are interested in mobile web development, his articles can be of great utility.He has rated the following 21 browsers -SafariAndroid WebKitDolfinOpera MobilePalm WebKitIrisBlackBerry WebKitMicroBSymbian WebKitFirefoxOzoneBlackBerry oldIE MobileNetFrontBlazerObigoBrew browserOpera MiniBoltSkyfireUCWebHe now plans to focus on the following ten...
Sunday, 22 August 2010
It doesn't take long for rookie Web developers to realize that the browser world is as unfair as the world we live in as browsers do not all comply with standards to the same degree. As a result, they are aghast when they find that their painstakingly-built web pages fail in some browsers that they test on towards the end. Being aware of HTML, CSS & JavaScript standards is a pre-condition to building cross-browser web pages but what if you skipped that step & now have to get a project out of the door? Almost all of the new browsers come...
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Google may have been the first to do maths calculations, currency conversions & the like which are impressive but what Bing & Wolfram Alpha are doing is astounding! You get more precise answers quickly. Sample the results for these search queries -What is the population of India compared to China? What is the area of India compared to China? Also see:Search Engine Wa...
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.So if you are interested in listening to what the twitterati is saying about jQuery, you can search with the #jQuery hashtag on Twitter Search or hashtags.orgI've been looking for a simple way to convert...
Thursday, 12 August 2010
A good way to be a better programmer is by studying & analyzing source code of others. Here is a work-in-progress compilation of popular JavaScript apps or libraries dissected by generous folks -Google SuggestGoogle Analytics script; also see Steve Souders analysis from a performance perspectiveGoogle AdsenseDigg widgetjQuery; code run-through by Paul Irish PrototypeGoogle Instant Preview Meebo (updated: 20/Jan/2011)Seen anymore articles...
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Did you know, Google's new Font API lets you display text on your web page with custom fonts served from their server farm? (Thanks Chris)There are currently 19 fonts, some with multiple variations, in the Google Font Directory. Their site informs that all fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers. You can use CSS or JavaScript to embed them. There is a Font...
Monday, 9 August 2010
The following material is available for free on Microsoft eLearning -1. Collection 6261: Developing Rich Experiences using Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008 consists of 3 2-hour premium clinics -Clinic 6262: Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation using .Net Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008Clinic 6263: Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation using .Net Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008Clinic 6264: Introducing Windows Communication Foundation using .Net Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 20082. Clinic 6375AE: Introduction...
Some Microsoft bloggers ocassionally share their group's software development practices & they make for interesting reading -Ivo Manolov's (Test Manager of the Windows Presentation Foundation team) notes on the techniques used to manage development of the WPF 4 and Visual Studio 2010 productsBack in 2004, Scott Guthrie described how development of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer was coming along. He also discussed his team's testing strategy.I'll keep updating this list as I find more such articles. Dear reader,...
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Does it take you more than a few minutes to precisely calculate your age exactly to the month & day?There are a number of online tools to find your precise age to the nearest day but Wolfram Alpha the “computational knowledge engine” not only calculates this when you just enter the date but also presents fun facts about that date. Try it out.Wolfram Alpha is also an excellent research tool for students of all ages. For school kids, it may...
Saturday, 7 August 2010
Gartner research predicts that by 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide. Bruce Lawson offers 3 strategies in a Dev Opera article to "mobilise" a web site to work across all devices i.e. not just mobiles but also alternative browsing devices like games consoles (Nintendo Wii, DSi), web-enabled TVs, in-car browsers etc -Strategy #1: Code well and do nothing special for mobile - The current crop of advanced mobile browsers are very good at rearranging content without being told how to by a developer...Making...
Monday, 2 August 2010
Now that Windows Phone 7 has hit the technical preview milestone, there are even more resources for developers to learn from. Here's a compilation of free learning material on WP7 Development -Books -Programming Windows Phone 7 - Microsoft Press has announced that Charles Petzold’s upcoming book Programming Windows Phone 7 will be available for free download by October end. The second draft preview of the ebook (PDF link) contains 11 of the total 22 chapters planned.Learning Windows Phone Programming - ...
Sunday, 1 August 2010
The right-most label in a domain name is referred to as its "top-level domain" (TLD). For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is com While wiki surfing this Sunday, I came across some fun facts about domain names -Most TLDs with three or more characters are referred to as "generic" TLDs, or "gTLDs". Currently there are 20 gTLDs out of which 6 (.biz, .com, .info, .name, .net, .org) are open TLDs i.e. any person or entity is permitted to registerCountry-code top-level domains (ccTLD) are two letter domains established...
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