CodeProject | Web Developer Newsletter - Fight against “Right-rail Blindness”

40 articles this week Tuesday, October 15, 2013 View online Welcome to this week's Web Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements Manage your app and get a shirt! New Relic, the leader in SaaS-based web app performance monitoring, is giving everyone who tries their software a Nerd Life shirt. Do you code in .NET, Ruby, PHP, Python, or Java? Then you can use New Relic at no cost! Instant access to thousands of books and videos Technology and business professionals can learn with video tutorials, code samples, books, and certification guides. Start a trial now. Microsoft ships tool to block IE11 on Windows 7 None of that new stuff for you! (more: Infoworld) Fight against "Right-rail Blindness" I admit it: I suffer from right-rail blindness. I never notice stuff over there --> Even to the point of missing broken stuff on sites I've built. So, what to do with those afflicted with RRB? Stop afflicting them (duh). (more: Nielsen Norman Group) Introducing Web Development and Tooling TV (video) Time for yet another confession: I have a problem with most Internet video shows. Short ones are fine, but I just don't have the attention span to sit and listen to something long. However, 10 minutes is doable, and stuff coming from the Web dev team at Microsoft is worth it as well, IMO. (more: MSDN Blogs) SpreadsheetGear 2012 Now for Silverlight! Take your browser based applications beyond the limits of HTML and JavaScript with high performance Excel compatible spreadsheet controls from the leader in .NET spreadsheets. Try the live SpreadsheetGear Silverlight Samples Now! 10 Reasons Web developers should learn AngularJS I've been avoiding the JavaScript framework battles for a while. I figured I'd wait until it looks like someone is going to win and pile on. Well, it looks like Angular might just be that winner (at least for two weeks). Plus, his first point really caught my eye: "AngularJS Gives XAML Developers a Place to Go on the Web" (more: DZone) Shumway Oh, Flash. Once proudly squatting over almost every browser in the world. Then... not so much. Some blamed the Dread Jobs Monster, others the frikking daily patches. Slowly, the needs for Flash decreased, but what to do with those SWFs you had paid for? Shumway - sadly only a Firefox extension now, hopefully more later - helps you to do away with the need to play them in Flash. (more: Mozilla) Adblock Plus: the tiny plugin threatening the internet's business model Hands up: who likes Internet ads? Anyone? Anyone? OK, they're not popular, but they do pay *cough* for many of the sites *cough* you enjoy. Even when I was running Adblock all the time, I remembered to switch it off on sites I liked, just so they could get a bit of change out of my eyes. (Did that sound like a weird way of describing that?) Interesting to read of their tactics (some would call them strongarm) in dealing with advertisers. (more: The Guardian) Interview questions and exercises about CSS I'm not a huge fan of "interview questions" (you know the type), but questions about skills you'll actually use in a the job seem fair game. Of course, publicizing them seems counter productive, kind of like braindump sites. Still, I present a bunch of questions about CSS. I view them more as useful study material, as CSS is so ... idiosyncratic. (more: CodeProject) Latest Articles 40 articles overall. 14 new, 26 updated. New articles added ASP.NET Extensible Web Application - Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter Howto replace existing ASP.NET pages using MEF based plugin solution... PHP How to handle appointments and send automated reminder calls using PHP and your MySQL database - Simon Robert VoIP This article presents a simple example on how to insert automated reminders about appointments, meetings to MySQL table with the help of PHP Wiki.ASP.NET articles Great jQuery Tutorials - ASP.NET Community  Great jQuery Tutorials jQuery is used on more and more sites. Here are some sites where you can find great tutorial for jQuery:Tutorial Fixed Div In The Bottom Of The Page - ASP.NET Community Hi everybody,I am going to write an example div fixed in the bottom. First let's write our divs to be fixed in bottom.----------   JQuery Hello World Sample - ASP.NET Community Here is a jQuery hello world page for anybody wanting to get started with JQuery. 1. Download jQuery at jQuery - ASP.NET Community What is jQuery?jQuery is a light weight javascript library which provides fast and easy way of HTML DOM traversing and manipulation, event handling, Image Rotator in Javascript - ASP.NET Community Image Rotator in Javascript There are many ways to create Image Rotator in JavaScript .I write two simple examples to create an Image rotator in Simple Captcha Code in Javascript - ASP.NET Community  Here I create a Cptcha Code With JavaScript Step 1:->   In the (.aspx) page we write the following Code:->   <%@ Page Language="C#" JQuery: A Quick Start Guide - ASP.NET Community This article is an introduction to JQuery. It is for those people who always heard JQuery but never used it or don't know where to start from.What is Articles updated Ajax DayPilot 4: Event Calendar/Scheduler with CSS Themes (ASP.NET) - Dan Letecky DayPilot Lite 4 (Apache Software License 2.0) brings a new feature: full CSS styling and themes support. Applications & Tools Line Counting Trickery within Visual Studio - Rion Williams This post will cover how to get the number of lines of code within your application in both premium and non-premium versions of Visual Studio through either the integrated Code Metrics tools (Premium-versions only) or by leveraging a crafty Regular Expression and without having to resort to USI. ASP.NET Learn MVC (Model View Controller) step by step in 7 days – Day 1 - Shivprasad koirala As the article's name says, learn MVC. Ao the agenda is simple, we are going to learn ASP.NET MVC in 7 days. Learn MVC (Model View Controller) Step by Step in 7 Days – Day 3 - Shivprasad koirala This article is Part 3 and continuation to the Learn MVC Step by Step in 7 Days series. Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 2 - Shivprasad koirala This article is continuation to Learn MVC step by step in 7 days Creating a Clean, Minimal-Footprint ASP.NET WebAPI Project with VS 2012 and ASP.NET MVC 4 - John Atten Creating a clean, minimal-footprint ASP.NET WebAPI project with VS 2012 and ASP.NET MVC 4. Customizing Routes in ASP.NET MVC - John Atten How to customize routes in ASP.NET MVC. Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 4 - Shivprasad koirala In day 4 we will look in to JSON ,Jquery ,Aysnch controllers and session management. HTML / CSS Canvas Control Library and New Forms Based System for building Web Pages and Websites - Akshay Srinivasan2 Canvas Control Library provides highly customizable controls using the HTML5 Canvas element. Also includes a new Forms based system which is a new way to build your web pages and websites. Internet / Network UniversalSerializer - Christophe Bertrand A universal and easy serializer for .NET. NoSQL RaptorDB - the Document Store - Mehdi Gholam NoSql, JSON based, Document store database with compiled .net map functions and automatic hybrid bitmap indexing and LINQ query filters (now with standalone Server mode, Backup and Active Restore, Transactions, Server side queries, MonoDroid support, HQ-Branch Replication) PHP Mysterious Google two step authentication - in debug - Vyacheslav Voronenko Steps for how OTP code is obtained, and adding a new level of security to web applications. Simple PHP Chat Script - Emerald kweks This is a simple script for chat, made with PHP and JavaScript, using OOP and AJAX. Tablets and All-in-Ones Virtual 3D-Shopping Malll - Nayan Zawar application provides a new way of online Shopping by surfing in a virtual mall in which user can would be able to shop online with a new touch experience owing to 3D-clone of user itself Wiki.ASP.NET articles __doPostBack function - ASP.NET Community Hi everyone. Today I am going to talk about  __doPostBack function, because there is some confusion in using _dopostback.You can see this New Tips and Tricks added Ajax Using UpdateProgress and Making Background Inactive - PoojaGahlaut To show 'Please wait' text to the user when a button is clicked and some code block needs to be executed. The background should be made disabled, so that user cannot click on other links/buttons before the current execution completes. ASP.NET How to logout in an ASP.NET application with session – abandon, clear or remove - Mangesh V. Devikar this article describes the session handling while performing a logout proces in any asp.net application C# How to Cascade Delete an Adjacency List Model in SQL in C# - marks-mike Demonstrates how to cascade delete on a single table that maintains hierarchy by a ParentId that points to the primary key of the same table Tips and Tricks updated .NET Framework Specifying Ports When Running Applications in Visual Studio - Rion Williams This post will provide a short walk-through for handling and updating these areas of your application to gain more control over debugging, testing and running your applications through Visual Studio. ASP.NET The Web Developer Checklist : A One-Stop-Shop for Improving the Web - Rion Williams A one-stop-shop for improving the web. Using PushSharp to Send Notifications to iOS and Android - Mangesh V. Devikar Implementing pushsharp library for sending notifications from ASP.NET application Client side scripting JavaScript Modal Popup Window - Mahesh Bailwal Flexible JavaScript Modal Popup Window Design and Architecture How to improve the performance of managed code - Paulo Kunzel Summarizes some ideas on how to improve code performance HTML / CSS HTML5 (and Some CSS) Best Practice - Paulo Kunzel A short guide on best practices String handling Porting the Financial Times JavaScript String Compressor - Morgan Estes Compress and encode a string to save loading time in the browser New Technical Blogs added .NET Framework Constructor .NET - SonuKSingh Types of Constructors available in C# ASP.NET Controls Difference betweeen ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC - Imran Abdul Ghani Difference between ASP.NET Webforms and ASP.NET MVC Technical Blogs updated .NET Framework Remove Slow Startups and Enjoy Less "Suspense" through .NET 4.5.1′s App Suspend Feature - Rion Williams This article covers one of the switches that you might be interested in flipping, the App Suspend feature, which is available in .NET 4.5.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2. ASP.NET Getting SignalR-Ready in Visual Studio 2010 - Rion Williams This post will cover how to get yourself up and running using SignalR within Visual Studio 2010 in a jiffy. C# Creating Advanced Audit Trails using ActionFilters in ASP.NET MVC - Rion Williams As mentioned in my previous article on “Implementing Simple Audit Trails using ActionFilters in ASP.NET MVC”, accountability is such an important factor when working with systems that involve any level of security and confidentiality. In that post, we discussed creating a very basic [Aud Tools and IDE Merge Smarter with Semantic Merge - Rion Williams How to merge smarter with Semantic Merge. © 2013 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. 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