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33 articles this week Tuesday, January 21, 2014 View online Welcome to this week's Web Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements It's 2014. Say No to Code Bugs! The future is now, do your users and the future a solid and stop shipping slow apps and buggy code. Use New Relic to spot code-level bugs and build faster, better performing apps. Deploy New Relic today and get a t-shirt! Voice Recognition & Synthesis with the Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK This article covers using the built-in Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK functionality to enable speech recognition. See how easy it is to start recognizing new languages. Start your journey now. LESS vs Sass? It's time to switch to Sass While I'm not as bullish on Sass (although it is good), I think the main decision every web developer should make is towards *any* CSS pre-processor. There are just so many benefits to your workflow (and keeping you from pulling out your hair). (more: Flippin' Awesome) Get deeper search insights for your site with Webmaster Tools Search Queries It's always useful to find out why people are coming to your site, and who else knows more than Google? I just found out that "bean trellis" is down 4 from last month. See? Important findings. (more: Make Use Of) 10 quick and easy fixes to reduce page weight Let's pick a page at random: 70KB of HTML, 7 CSS files, 15 JS files, and assorted graphics (including some without expirations). I guess there's always room for improvement. (more: Sitepoint) Give Your Data Some Razzle-Dazzle Iron Speed Designer is the fastest way to deliver feature-rich applications for .NET, SharePoint and software-as-a-service cloud computing environments. Amaze users with visually stunning applications that look like they took months to build. Download a Trial! Web apps that talk - Introduction to the Speech Synthesis API Here you go, write your own WebSiri (or WebSamantha). Granted, it only really works in Chrome at the moment, but I suppose we'll all have to deal with talking web pages in the future (along with auto-playing videos, and background audio). oh joy. (more: HTML5 Rocks) List of languages that compile to JS Like language 'x', but need some JavaScript? Why not roll out on of these? Would you believe two (TWO!) Forth to JS interpreters? Are you one of the three people in the world interested in COBOL to JavaScript? All this and more on this freakishly large list. (more: GitHub) So you hired an SEO Consultant: what should you expect? A prompt invoice? Apologies to the decent SEO folk, but I've seen far too many of them plop brain-dead suggestions ("use the alt attribute", "one H1 per page", "yes, Google does use the META tags"), followed by a very large invoice. (more: Sitepoint) Load Testing Webinar If you're a web developer, you should be doing some sort of load testing, otherwise you might end up with something on your face (like some recent developers working on a large-ish site for some government in the news). Here's how you'd do it with VS. (more: Brian Harry) Latest Articles 33 articles overall. 26 new, 7 updated. New articles added ASP.NET Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Model Binding - An Absolute Beginner's Tutorial - Rahul Rajat Singh In this article we try to understand what is ASP.NET MVC Model Binding Session Time Out Warning Message Using jQuery in ASP.NET - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat How to show a warning message to the user prior to 15 minutes before the session time out, in other words if the user is in an idle state for more than 5 minutes then the user gets a message in the browser GridView with Fixed Header and Scroll Bar - John Bhatt Let's learn how to make a scrollable GridView and Fix headers with simple steps. Simplest Possible ASP.NET Web API Project that Implements IoC/DI using Castle Windsor - B. Clay Shannon Create the simplest possible ASP.NET Web API app that uses Castle Windsor for DI in 23 pretty easy steps Charts, Graphs and Images Making Dashboards with Dc.js - Part 4: Style - Member 3792090 Styling dc.js graphs Client side scripting Implementing a Flowchart with SVG and AngularJS - Ashley Davis Documents my experiment building a flowchart with web technologies. How to build a simple website analysis services (like google analytics) - luigidibiasi, binterlandi What's behind the website analysis services (like google analytics) & how to build one. PHP Generating Maps - Member 4206974 Mapper is a PHP script for handle maps and linkable symbols inside. Product Showcase Monitoring the Performance of Multi-Tiered Windows Azure Applications - Bruno Terkaly Tips on how to troubleshoot Multi-tiered applications when they are hosted in cloud infrastructures. Dictating Text Messages from a Windows Store Application using Plantronics and Twilio - Carey Payette, Jeffrey T. Fritz In this article, I will show you how to combine Bing Speech Recognition, a Plantronics Voyager Legend UC Bluetooth headset and Twilio to bring text messaging capabilities to a Windows Store application. Third Party Products and Tools Creating Excel Report in DevExpress XAF - CBadger Using excel reporting in DevExpress Articles updated ASP Classic ASP and MVC - Emmet M MVC-like for classic ASP. ASP.NET MVC interview questions with answers - Shivprasad koirala The whole purpose of this article is to quickly brush up your MVC knowledge from an MVC interview perspective. State Management in ASP.NET - Introduction - Sachin Gargava An overview of state management techniques in ASP.NET. MVVM in Web development with Upida.Net - vladimir husnullin MVVM in web development with Upida.Net Validating incoming JSON using Upida.Net - vladimir husnullin This article describes how to implement incoming JSON data validation Client side scripting A real-time visitor counter with autorefresh feature - luigidibiasi, binterlandi Build a realtime visitors counter with AJAX and a server-side language. HTML / CSS Pfz.AnimationManagement.js - Paulo Zemek A fluent library for interactive animations in JavaScript New Tips and Tricks added .NET Framework GridView with HoverMenuExtender - Vinay Jade The edit and delete options are available only for the particular record on which mouse pointer is focusing ASP.NET Returning More Views in an ASP.NET MVC Action - Luxi This small code enables an MVC application to update many parts of the HTML in one request-response roundtrip. LocatorHQ - Get Country/Region/City From IP Address - adriancs Easily get Country, Region and Citry of web visitors from their IP address. ASP.NET Controls A Tab User Control with Client Side Object - Sitang Ruan A tab user control with embedded client side object C# How to generate MD5+Salt Password in C# - HardikPatel89 Secure passwords by converting MD5+Salt formated passwords Edit Controls TinyMCE for ASP.NET - 4Dinand2 Fast, easy with/without local js, allow ins HTML code by saving Grid & Data Controls How to Get REST Data and Display it in a DataGridView (or not) using JSON.NET - B. Clay Shannon Get REST data and display it in a DataGridView HTML / CSS Different Aspects of Website Protection - Artem Los This tip explains the way you can protect the source code of an HTML page. Miscellaneous Swapping Out Concrete Implementations of Interfaces with IoC/DI using Castle Windsor - B. Clay Shannon How to swap out interface mappings in IoC/DI projects using Castle Windsor How to Retrieve a Scalar Value from a REST method - B. Clay Shannon Retrieve scalar vals from REST methods Applying Attribute Routing in ASP.NET Web API REST Methods - B. Clay Shannon How to apply Attribute Routing to Web API Controllers Adding Model, Repository, and Controller pieces to your ASP.NET Web API Castle Windsorized (IoC/DI) Project - B. Clay Shannon How to add the necessary code for additional Web API data points Web Services Passing Object Collections to ASP.NET Web API - Tom Glick Philadelphia, US POC to demonstrate passing of collections of complex objects to ASP.NET Web API Controllers. New Technical Blogs added ASP Performing CRUD operations using ASP.NET Web API - Part 2 - Imran Abdul Ghani In part-1 of this web application development tutorial, we developed an application that perform all CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) operations using Microsoft ASP.NET Web API. Now, In this part, we will consume HTTP service developed using ASP.NET Web API using jQuery.If you haven't gone th Book Reviews Book Review : Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API - Sampath Lokuge This is a Book Review about Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API © 2014 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Insider News click here. CodeProject 503-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada +1 416-849-8900 x 100 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use webmaster@codeproject.com