Simple CSS Style Anchors For Your Blog
I have been working on my blog style lately. One feature that I wanted to have was a way to easily convert anchor tags into a styled button to highlight a link. For instance, I often post links to live...
View ArticleWeb Design Basics: An HTML & CSS Tutorial
Recently I was helping to introduce someone to web design. The person’s enthusiasm for learning about creating web content was apparent. He had already created a web site for his uncle. This content...
View ArticleMobileMe Scrolling Image Viewer
My friend showed me photos that he has posted on-line in his MobileMe Gallery. Apple did a great job designing this web site. There is a lot to learn from this user experience. One element that I...
View ArticleThree State Rollover Buttons Using A Sprite
Many times on a web site you will want to have a button have three distinct visual states: normal, active, and hover. This is easily accomplished using HTML and CSS. This post will provide the details...
View ArticleASP.NET MVC Task Manager (aka ‘Mr. Marky’)
In this blog I will introduce an online task manager created using the ASP.NET MVC framework. Here is a demo site and screen shot. Demo Download Background: The purpose of the project is to explore...
View ArticleAsynchronous Image Updater Using jQuery
In some applications there may be an image on the server that is dynamic. I want the image rendered on my web page to reflect the changes on the server. However, the browser caching mechanism work...
View ArticleCreate Natural Gradient Backgrounds For The Web
It is very common to use background colors to add a bit of design flare to a web site. In the ‘80s, sites seemed to be either black & white or designed (I use that term loosely) with primary...
View ArticleSimple Vertical Tabs
There are really two main ways (or a combination of them) to display menus on your web page: horizontally or vertically. Some sites have a combination of the two. For instance a main horizontal menu...
View ArticleWeb Charts Using jQuery Flot
Adding charts to your web application is simple using a library called ‘Flot’. Flot is a pure JavaScript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client...
View ArticleUpload Multiple Files With Progress Using Uploadify
I previously posted on how to use Uploadify to upload files. The previous post covered really well how to upload single files to an ASP.NET MVC controller using Uploadify. This post will expand on that...
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GPS Nerd Is Published to CodePlex
I have been meaning to do this for quite some time. Many of you have been asking me for the code for the GPS Nerd (a.k.a. Truck Tracker) project. My “just one more thing” attitude has delayed this...
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Loosely Coupled JavaScript Using PubSub
I recently watched a very interesting video by Rebecca Murphy that discussed using the pubsub architecture to create loosely coupled JavaScript. The concept is to develop your JavaScript objects and...
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A Modal Dialog Plugin for jQuery
There are a number of great jQuery modal plug-ins that already exist. So, why am I cluttering the interwebs with yet another one? There are a number of reasons: Feature Bloat – A number of plug-ins...
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Testing Your CRUD Using Generics
I often use a generic repository pattern as a wrapper around my data access logic. This wrapper generally serves the purpose of encapsulating specific implementation details. Here are the repository...
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A .NET Generic Repository Pattern With Implementations
I previously blogged about the repository pattern and .NET implementations. Here are the links to those old posts: The Repository Pattern The Repository Pattern – Part 2 Since that time, I have zeroed...
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4 Principles To Estimation Applied To Software Development
Estimating when a new software feature will be done is a tricky but important task. “When will you be done?” Typically on the other end of this question is the person writing your check. Maybe not...
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Python Script to Build, Test and Pack .NET Projects
At work we use Jenkins as our continuous integration server. Our implementation at work has to integrate with ClearCase and does a few tasks before actually doing the build. This is pretty typical. Our...
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Automate Your Database Backups
I have a few blogs and other applications that leverage MySQL as a database. I wanted to automate the backup of the associated database data. My specific requirements are: Needs to work on Windows...
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RabbitMq Installation on Ubuntu 12.04
Seems like there are a lot of sources with pieces of this. This worked for me on Ubuntu 12.04. sudo apt-get remove rabbitmq-server sudo apt-get install python-software-properties sudo...
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VirtualBox Not Starting On Windows
Symptoms Install a new instance of VirtualBox on a Windows 7/8/Server 2012 R2. After the install, attempting to start VirtualBox does not show the expected UI. Looking into the Task Manager, shows two...
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