A view engine provides Controllers with the ability to translate views into HTML. There are multiple reasons why you may choose one view engine over another. Here is a list of different types of ASP.NET MVC View Engines, the first two are available with ASP.NET MVC 3 -WebForms /ASPX – classic ASP.NET MVC views Razor (CSHTML) Spark NHAML - (pronounced enamel) is a pure .NET implementation of the popular Rails Haml view engine. NVelocity Brail It is possible to use multiple view engines in the same projectRelated reading:ASP.NET...
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Sunday, 28 August 2011
A relevant comic strip introduced into an article or presentation can make a topic more appealing & livelier (assuming you have permission to use if it's not your own). Finding the image of a strip on the web that you remember reading in a Sunday newspaper may not be easy. Don't you wish there was a comics search engine that could get you cartoons for a keyword you submit?Here are a few that I found -Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine by Michael "Bing" Yingling Dilbert Strip Finder by BF Martin XKCD - use this search filter...
Monday, 22 August 2011
To show that DuckDuckGo, a search engine site winning rave reviews, doesn't "filter bubble" or track you, they have illustrated guides to demonstrate how Google may not be as saintly or good as it may appear. The facts they present are something to ponder on.On a different note, DuckDuckGo provides a great API alongwith other goodies like the easily configurable Karma Widget that displays your online karma (e.g. twitter follower count,...
Saturday, 20 August 2011
Using a Print stylesheet is a more convenient way to generate a printer-friendly page than creating such a page through server-side coding. Tim Connell has a nice CSS tip in his article on things to note while coding a stylesheet meant for printer output.At some point, you have probably found yourself reading a printed article when you get to an engrossing section that includes a link for more information. A link that sits there teasing you with...
Interesting points from BuiltWith.com's Mobile Web Technology Report 2011 -The growth of the mobile web is staggering, with approximately 726 million people having access to a 3G mobile subscription The viewport meta tag was originally designed by Apple to resize the layout viewport of a website, a requirement for the mobile device to understand how the website designer has defined how the content should be displayed to the end user. Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and iPhone all support the viewport meta tag Close to 3% of the top 10,000 sites...
Wednesday, 17 August 2011
There are currently close to 400 videos on Google Webmaster Central YouTube channel featuring Matt Cutts who answers questions posted to the Webmaster Help Forum or to the Twitter handle @googlewmc. Occasionally, some Google secrets slip out in these videos. You can also pick up some tips & tricks on SEO by watching these typically 2-minute videos.If you are SEO inclined, the videos have some interesting titles that draw you to find out the answers....
Monday, 15 August 2011
I've used cross-browser testing tools like Adobe BrowserLab, Browsershots & Expression Web SuperPreview but didn't know there were a dozen more.Smashing Magazine has done an exhaustive review of all available cross-browser testing tools with a nice tabular summary at the end for easy comparison. It covers the following list of tools -Free:Adobe BrowserLab Browsershots Expression Web SuperPreview (free and commercial) Lunascape 6 IETester IE NetRenderer Spoon Sauce Labs (free and commercial) - 200 free minutes/month Browsera (free and commercial)...
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