If you are Pluralsight subscriber, you can try out the course assesment beta feature to test yourself on what you've learnt. Pluralsight is currently seeking feedback on the Q & A and intends to make this feature available in the future along with the course with score tracking after community vetting.For those fond of quizzies, the current limitation of allowing only 10 beta test assessments every 30-days may be a little stifling.I hope Pluralsight also start a Forums section soon to let its users discuss topics covered in...
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
There is a nice compilation of JavaScript & jQuery learning resources in this community wiki on StackOverflow.com. I picked those which are publicly available online along with my own favorites. Here's the list -Videos:appendTo video tutorials JavaScript from Null: Video SeriesOntwik JavaScript videos Crockford on JavaScript eBooks, Articles, Tutorials -Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke Learn JavaScript - Mozilla Developer NetworkW3Schools.com/jQuery W3Schools.com/JSStephen Walther's JavaScript...
Sunday, 24 July 2011
Notes from Scott Forsyth's session "IIS 7.x's Configuration System" in his 52-week video lesson series -- IIS 7.x drastically different from IIS 6- IIS 6 - IIS path (Metabase.xml) & .NET path (machine.config, web.config (root, site, app))- Metabase.xml - app pools, site config, mime types, compression, various settings like default document- 2 paths have merged & .NET becomes a first class citizen in IIS 7.x- IIS 7.x - Distributed &...
Saturday, 23 July 2011
The current ASP.NET Starter Kits page does not show older Starter Kits built on ASP.NET 2.0 & links to them that you may find in old articles may be broken. When I have to refer these useful oldies to folks in need, I keep going back to the search engine. Rather than waste time searching, I thought I'll place them all at one place. So here goes -Club Site Starter KitExtended Club Site Starter KitTheBeerHouse: CMS and E-Commerce Starter KitMy Web Pages Starter KitSmall Business Starter KitTime Tracker Starter Kit (documentation)Commerce...
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
A puzzled ASP.NET developer asked on the ASP.NET Forums why the formatting of the same ASP.NET page looked different in Internet Explorer when rendered by Visual Web Developer & IIS seperately. When the entire source code is the same, why should they look different?Dave Sussman has this insightful answer -It's possible the application is running on IIS under a v4 application pool, meaning it will be run as though it were a v4 application, so the control rendering might be different. Two things to do:1. On IIS machine, select the application...
Monday, 18 July 2011
I plan to look out for & compile interesting, practical, real-world examples of HTML5 features that popular websites have started implementing. I hope all the browser manufacturers quickly agree on a common minimum set of HTML5 features & get HTML5 rolling.* Google Docs now supports uploading an entire folder.There is a nice explanation on StackOverflow about how this is achieved by setting up an attribute "webkitdirectory"...
Sunday, 17 July 2011
I first tried Google Transit in Seattle in 2008 for help with bus routes and wished it came to India as well. I was happy when it started covering local trains of the Hyderabad Multi Modal Transit System (MMTS) in 2010(it seems to discontinued now) and then wished it worked with bus routes as well. Being a believer in public transport as a way to protect the environment, I was glad to find out that Google Transit provides help with bus routes...
Saturday, 16 July 2011
Adobe BrowserLab is an online cross browser testing service (free till April 12, 2012) that has more features than Browsershots.org, the other free online cross browser testing service. However, BrowserLab currently covers a smaller set of browsers & platforms than Browsershots -Chrome 10 - WindowsChrome 11 - WindowsFirefox 3.0 - OS XFirefox 3.0 - WindowsFirefox 3.6 - OS XFirefox 3.6 - WindowsFirefox 4.0 - WindowsInternet Explorer...
Thursday, 14 July 2011
This video course by Michael Palermo is useful for beginners to ASP.NET and ASP.NET developers who are yet to try MVC & WebPages. The seasoned presenter explains the difference between Web Forms, MVC and WebPages. He demonstrates how to create a new site, a new page, a simple input form, a data-driven list with each of the models.Some notes from the video -- A modern definition of ASP.NET – "Microsoft’s family of technologies to enable...
Monday, 11 July 2011
There are times when you just have a picture (of a monument, person etc) but can't frame a keyword for Google to search on.The search box on Google Images now sports a camera icon on the text box as an indicator that you can use to either upload an image from your computer (by just dragging & dropping with browsers supporting HTML5) or specify an url of an image that you want more info on. This image is then used as an search argument...
Saturday, 9 July 2011
Now that I'm getting my feet wet in HTML5, I thought I should spend more time with features that are supported by all popular browsers rather than digging into HTML5 features that are implemented by only one or two browsers.Table showing browser support for HTML5 Input types from W3Schools.comI noticed a nice demo by Craig Shoemaker in the Pluralsight HTML5 Fundamentals course on feature detection with Modernizr that lists all supported...
Friday, 8 July 2011
No matter how big or small your ailment, you should never try to play doctor. However, there may be times when you want to verify details of medicines you are consuming. Typically, Indian doctors scribble names of medicines that are almost illegible but surprisingly understandable by the pharmacist.MedGuideIndia lets you check details of commonly used drugs in India by their brand name. Their search feature also shows brand names...
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Google tells us not to focus on PageRank or “PR”, the famous part of their ranking algorithm, as a metric for success. It acknowledges that PageRank being a number is easier to measure than relevance which is what actually counts. Google removed PageRank distribution data from Webmaster Tools but if you still want to see in real-time how your web pages are faring, use StatCounter analytics.Note that the Search Rankings vary when searches are conducted...
Monday, 4 July 2011
IIS expert Scott Forsyth has been running a video lesson series where he shares best practices, technical processes, tools of the trade, and occasional stories from working in the trenches. 25 of the planned 52 weekly, roughly 10 minute sessions are hosted on YouTube and currently available for free viewing. I checked out the "AppDomain - What it is and Why it's Important" & "IIS Virtual Directory vs. Application" sessions & found them very...
Saturday, 2 July 2011
Numbers tell a story. Interesting tidbits about India IT from the newspapers (work in progress) -Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), largest Indian software services provider, is closing in on Accenture to become the world's second-largest IT company in terms of headcount by the end of this financial year... TCS had 2.27 lakh employees on its rolls as of last December. Accenture, on the other hand, had a headcount of 2.46 lakh as of February this year. IBM is the biggest of the lot with a global headcount of 4.5 lakh.As on date, Infosys and Wipro...
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