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Tuesday, 10 August 2010

Google Font API offers free custom fonts

Posted on 19:44 by Unknown
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 previewing tool to fine tune how the letters should look.

This program is in beta & it is supported mostly on newer versions of popular browsers.

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Monday, 9 August 2010

Free Learning Resources on WPF, WCF, WF, XAML, Sharepoint 2010

Posted on 19:26 by Unknown
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 2008
  • Clinic 6263: Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation using .Net Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008
  • Clinic 6264: Introducing Windows Communication Foundation using .Net Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008
2. Clinic 6375AE: Introduction to XAML
 
3. Two introductory clinics on Sharepoint 2010 -
  • Clinic 10277: What's New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Developers
  • Clinic 10279: What's New in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for IT Professionals
 
Related:
Free Sharepoint 2007 goodies on Microsoft e-Learning
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How they develop software at Microsoft

Posted on 10:18 by Unknown
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 products
  • Back 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, you can post links that you may come across in the comments section.

Related:
Some Software Engineering Myths Busted
Book Review - I. M. Wright's Hard Code
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Sunday, 8 August 2010

Wolfram Alpha can probably finish your homework

Posted on 06:16 by Unknown
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 even finish their homework.

Also see:
View math calculation results directly in Firefox Search bar
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Saturday, 7 August 2010

HOW TO make your website mobile-friendly

Posted on 23:04 by Unknown
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 a good semi-liquid layout that has a min-width and max-width set in your CSS and em-based typography will work very well across a range of different devices and screen sizes.

Strategy #2: Make a separate mobile site - .. (although) it results in having two sites to user-test, maintain, etc

Strategy #3: Build mobile-aware adaptive sites - hardest to pull-off methodology... (but) future-proof as it tests features rather than sniffing browsers.

There are also numerous mobile web optimization tips in that article -
  • Combine files and reduce requests across the network
  • Put script elements as far down as possible in the source
  • State the dimensions of images in the HTML
  • Opera users can sign up for seven free hours of testing on Perfecto Mobile service that lets you test on real handsets via the Internet

.. and interesting facts -

Smartphones can run full Web browsers such as Opera Mobile or Safari/iPhone, while in the developing world we see much lower-end handsets that don’t have an operating system but, if they can run Java they can use Opera Mini (a thin client for a proxy-based system that compresses pages down to about 10% of their original size before being sent to the handset for rendering — see our comparison of Opera Mobile and Opera Mini)

Also see:
Jason Grigsby’s DOs and DON’Ts of Mobile Strategy
Visual tags: Microsoft Tag vs QR Code
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Monday, 2 August 2010

Free Windows Phone 7 Learning Resources

Posted on 09:17 by Unknown
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 -  a free sampler of 2 preview chapters from the book by Yochay Kiriaty and Jaime Rodriguez is available for download.

Videos -
  • Channel 9 videos on developing with WP7
  • Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions

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Sunday, 1 August 2010

Fun facts about domain names

Posted on 07:29 by Unknown
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 register

Country-code top-level domains (ccTLD) are two letter domains established for countries or territories or their internationalized domain names (IDN ccTLD). With some historical exceptions, the code for any territory is the same as its two-letter ISO 3166 code.

A number of the world's smallest countries have licensed their TLDs for worldwide commercial use. For example, Tuvalu and the Federated States of Micronesia, small island-states in the Pacific, have partnered with VeriSign and FSM Telecommunications respectively, to sell domain names using the .tv and .fm TLDs to television and radio stations.

Vanity ccTLDs are TLDs which are used for various purposes outside their home countries, because of their name. The list of ccTLDs on Wikipedia (incompletely) identifies countries (there are atleast 15) that permit foreign registration.

A domain hack (sometimes known as a domain name hack) is an unconventional domain name that combines domain levels, especially the top-level domain (TLD), to spell out the full "name" or title of the domain.

Some popular domain name hacks are who.is, blo.gs, del.icio.us, cr.yp.to, retou.ch, goo.gl, bit.ly and ow.ly
 
Also see:
My favorite Developer Cheat-Sheets
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