Thanks Scott Mitchell, 4GuysFromRolla!

13 years after founding the website 4GuysFromRolla & writing for it for all these years on Classic ASP & ASP.NET, Scott Mitchell is calling it quits. And oh! I got to know just today that the site I've been following since 2000 is pronounced 4GuysFromRawl-ah, not 4GuysFromRoll-ah. He has made a candid assessment of why the site started failing after he sold it to Internet.com during the dotcom heydays.Scott Mitchell belongs...

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HOW TO study (or copy) code related to JavaScript effects from websites you envy

"The problem with quotes from the internet is you can never quite be sure they are genuine" - Abraham LincolnTo build web apps with a great UI, its ok to draw inspiration from the best sites on the web. Sometimes the good-looking websites with great JavaScript effects may obfuscate their code knowingly or unknowingly or the code may be difficult to understand by just viewing the HTML source. Visual Events is a nifty bookmarklet that shows the...

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Free: Developer Support Handbook

Pamela Fox's Developer Support Handbook is based on her experiences at Google Developer Relations. Aimed at API providers, it discusses the following topics -    * Documentation    * Forum Support    * Issue Tracking    * Communication    * Top DevelopersAlso see:The Developer Evangelist Handb...

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ASP.NET MVC Usage Trends

As per the BuiltWith website, there are 34,183 websites using ASP.NET MVC and among them, 1,840 websites are within the top million most visited sites on the internet.Also see:Large sites that run on ASP....

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HOW TO track time for multiple time zones in Windows 7 & Vista

In our highly globalized world, we may sometimes have to keep track of not just our time but also the time in other countries due to business reasons or to follow a live sports or event broadcast on TV that is happening in another part of the world.Did you know, you can track the time in up to two countries/time zones besides your own, right from the system tray in Windows 7 & Vista?To configure the extra clocks, click on the time in the system...

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HOW TO display Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents within the browser

If a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx formats) hosted on the web is accessed through a browser, it typically asks if you want to open or save the file. You can then view it if you have MS Office or the corresponding Word/Excel/PowerPoint Viewer (freely downloadable) installed.To increase the reach of the content in those Office documents among non-PC/Mac users, you can use Google Docs...

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Head First Design Patterns - C# & VB.NET Code Examples

Books in O'Reilly's Head First series are like "For Dummies" books, covering technical topics in an unconventional way. They contain goofy pictures and their content generates extreme reactions - readers love it or hate it. Going by the reviews on Amazon, Head First Design Patterns, a majority of the readers like it. The code samples in the book are in Java. So if you pick the book, be aware that the same samples have been ported to C# & VB.NET by volunteers -VS 2010 compatible code examples in C# on CodePlexVS 2003 compatible code examples...

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Facebook embarrassment

A Facebook update of an acquaintance who expressed solidarity with the cause of Children dying from Cancer, showed up thus -Also see:See what Google is suggestingSee what Google is suggesting -...

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The Glorious History of Internet Explorer

Love it or hate it, you will have to appreciate IE’s staying power. Having been around for 16 years, it is still the browser market leader. Here are some interesting facts about Internet Explorer:IE 1.0IE 1.0, based on Mosaic, was released together with the Windows 95 Plus! Pack in 1995Used on Windows 95, IE 1.0 was only slightly more than 1 MB in size.IE 2.0 was the very first cross-platform browser that supported both Windows and Mac.Released in...

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HOW TO cut & paste just the text in a browser, not the formatting

Typically when I have to paste formatted text within a rich text box of a web app, I paste it into the search box of the browser first to remove the formatting & then paste the un-formatted text in a rich text editor. What a pain!I learnt from the WebApps StackExchange forum that in Chrome, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + V to paste the unformatted version of the copied text. While monkeying around to see if there is any trick...

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