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Category: Web Development

  • Is Node.js better than ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC?

    Is Node.js better than ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC? What I’m writing is in no way a ciricism of Node.js but the hype that some have blindly bought into. Javascript is a great language and Node.js is a good API built on Google’s V8 engine but it’s not the end all and be all that some people […]

  • Deploying LESS changes to a Windows Azure Website via Git

    In developing vacashare.com, I am using LESS to generate my CSS as I have found the technology to be a developer-friendly way of generating clean, flexible CSS. The Web Essentials extension for Visual Studio 2012 automatically compiles my LESS files into a .css and .min.css files ready for production use. The automated CSS generation combined with .NET Bundling […]

  • ASP.NET MVC4 Project + SQL CE 4 limitations

    With the official RTM release of Visual Studio 2012 and the MVC 4 project (also available for VS 2010), I have been using some of the features of new features and out of the box features of hte MVC 4 project to ease the development of my user stories. SQL CE 4 made database backends […]

  • iOS ‘native’ web apps with HTML5

    I’ve been considering iOS development recently but I don’t have a Mac on which to develop. Alternatively, I have been looking into HTML5 ‘native’ web apps. These are web apps that look and feel like native iOS applications. I am using my Batch Image Resize web app for my R&D on this topic. Installation The […]

  • Integrating Google Web Fonts

    .post-434 { font-family: ‘Jura’; } Historically, web designers have been limited to the fonts they can use in live text. Enter Google Web fonts. This will allow you to integrate any website. I have used the Google Web Fonts API to integrate the Jura font for this post by adding the following to my HTML: […]

  • Source control strategy for WordPress sites

    My background is more in software and web application development, not website development. So when I started doing a few websites on the side, I wanted to translate some of the tools and processes that I use everyday as a developer to this new role. As I compared the different CMS options, WordPress was the […]

  • Migrating Multiple WordPress Sites to a single Multisite

    Until recently, I have been using WordPress solely for more this blog. With the release of version 3.0, I decided to read through the release notes and noticed some great features. With the addition of custom post types introduced in version 2.9, WordPress makes a dandy content management system. Discussing this with Morton (@mor10) at MIX 2011 […]