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What have you done for me lately?
Blogging is a great way to learn about development. It is also a great way to motivate you to keep learning. Another way to do this is doing side fun projects in your spare time, which is what I did … Continue reading
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The Debt Crisis – In Your Code!
A new term has sprung to fame in the past few years, technical debt. For me, technical debt is basically what gets created when a developer cheats and does a quick and dirty change to their system, usually due to … Continue reading
Speed up your website with a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
In basic english, a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is when other servers, besides those of your website, host some of your website’s content. More technically and specifically, a content delivery network (CDN) is a collection of web servers in multiple … Continue reading
Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address – Video
One pastime of mine is watching the commencement speeches by various famous and no-so famous accomplished people of this world. A commencement speech is a speech given to graduating students, usually at a university. It is typically given by a … Continue reading
Multiple File Uploads with Jquery
If you search online there are over a dozen sites and blogs offering ways for developers to allow multiple file uploads on a site. I have tried the top 10 most offered solutions, and the best one I have found … Continue reading
Installing a Service on a Windows Server
Web application developers will eventually at some point need to install a service on a server that is running their system. It seems like something only an administrator can do, but it isn’t a difficult or lengthy task. To begin, … Continue reading
Telerik MVC Controls Free
Telerik are the gold standard for non-native .net controls. Their products usually come with a hefty pricetag to match their quality, but not always. Telerik has released free to the community their ASP.NET MVC extensions, include 16 controls such as … Continue reading
Brilliant Tech Interviews – Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Groupon
One of the world’s best interview shows, Charlie Rose has on it’s website a section dedicated to technology. It features amazing interviews with Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and many others. These are … Continue reading
WAVE Accessibility Toolbar – Find Exact Source of Errors
The WAVE Accessibility Toolbar is an indispensable add-on for creating an accessible website. Unfortunately, when it evaluates your page, it does not always tell you exactly where the errors are. To know the exact location, simply disable styles, as shown … Continue reading
Semantic HTML5 Across All Browsers (and without Javascript)
HTML5 and it’s new semantic elements give developers a much larger toolset to give meaning to your HTML. As usual, IE6 almost ruins it for everybody 🙂 Fortunately, there is a way for the new semantic elements like section, article … Continue reading
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