ASP.NET

Rating and labelling your ASP.NET website

CSS

Multiple CSS Classes

Create Full Width Header & Footer With Centered Content Using CSS

PHP

Increase PHP's File Upload Limit Using php.ini

Mobile devices

Quick iPhone Media Detection

JavaScript Libraries

Object disposal and the ‘destruct’ section

Flashing Alert Message Box using Jquery

jFade 1.0 - color fader for jQuery

Books! It’s Raining Books!

Various

Fonts for web design: a primer

Databases

Build a Generic Histogram Generator for SQL Server

Bertrand le Roy reports about publishing the ASP.NET roadmap in his blog. He writes:

«In this document we describe some of the proposed features that we are considering investing in future releases of ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Web Developer, and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.
We really appreciate your feedback, so this document is intended as much for you to provide an input to our direction as well as to give some indication of what the teams are investing in. »

Source: Bertrand le Roy's blog.

Kai Loon post an article in which he tells about followingdesugn aspect of your site:

• Structuring

• Sketching

• Concept

• Web Usability

• Consistency

• Right technology at the right time

• Spacing and Padding

Source: Kai Loon blog.

There is a intresting article on 2 tablespoon site about current state of modern JavaScript libraries. This article covers the following topics:

• What about <insert JavaScript library here>?

• JavaScript Projects According to Google

• JavaScript Library Usage on Popular Sites

• JavaScript Size and Performance Benchmark Tests

• JavaScript Libraries in the Eyes of Employers

You can read the full version of this article on 2tablespoon site.

Rob Glazebrook continues his series of article about creating the calendars with HTML and CSS. He writes:

«A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article on creating a calendar using lists instead of tables. I was expecting a few people to find the concept interesting, and I was hoping for a little feedback from the web community. What I wasn’t expecting was the outpouring of comments and a very serious, fascinating debate on the semantic nature of calendars, the place of lists in web design, and more. And because I don’t think it’d be productive to just go through the list and respond to each comment individually, I thought I’d take some time and respond in a follow-up article. If you haven’t read the comments yet, I’d encourage you to do so first.

The first thing that I realized as the comments started to roll in was that my tutorial was fundamentally incomplete in a couple of vital ways. While I feel I did a decent job describing how to implement the technique, I fell short when it came to explaining how I envisioned the technique being used, or my reasoning behind what made using a list in lieu of a table such a useful idea. In other words, I’d covered the “how,” but not the “what” or the “why.” So I’ll cover more of that here.»

Source: CSSNewbies.

There is a new screen cast posted on a DimeCasts.net site about Argotic Framewoork. Here's excertp from preface article to this screen cast:

«n this episode we will walk you though how to create and implement an RSS feed using the Argotic RSS framework.

We will walk through generating the document, creating the feed access point and finally creating the hooks so the world knows we have a feed. »

Source: DimeCasts.net.

Charlie Key post a new tutorial about using PHP proxy with Flex applications. He writes:

«Below is a simple example application to show the working proxy script. The application has two buttons - one for attempting to pull my (Zwigby's) twitter rss feed directly from the twitter site and one to retrieve it using the PHP proxy. If there is an error a pop up will show with the error message. It is expected to show an error when not using the proxy, and when using the proxy the rss feed contents should show up in the text area below the buttons»

Source: Switch On The Code.

Ruud Steltenpool post an article about applying color tints to web pages with SVG filters and JavaScript. He writes:

«In this article I will present to you a new experiment of mine—an application of SVG and JavaScript that allows you to re-color any web page you navigate to. This has great uses—not only can it be used to make pages more accessible, but you can also use it to test different color schemes on a page on the fly. The re-coloring functions are actually packaged up bookmarklets, contained in the article below—feel free to install these in your browser as buttons in the UI, or as bookmarks.

While I explain you how it works, you’ll learn about bookmarklets, linearGradient, feColorMatrix and foreignObject.»

Source: Opera Developer Community.

Nic Williams post an intresting screencast about unit testing IPhone applications with Ruby. Here's small excerpt from preface article:

«If you followed some of my recent tweets, this project was previously called “iphoneruby”. And alas, the screencast also calls it “iphoneruby” but that was a crap name. People thought it was a way to run Ruby on the iphone. I can’t do that yet. So, a far better name is ‘rbiphonetest’. [track on summize]

Even if you’ve never touched Objective-C, Cocoa, the iPhone SDK, nor RubyCocoa I recommend watching the video anyway. It should give you hope that if you make the transition to iPhone development you don’t have to go alone without Ruby: your trusty swiss army knife of language/libraries/tools.»

Source: Dr.Nic blog.

Moonlight 0.7 released with following main changes:

• Webkit loads the plugin (kangaroo, lewing)

• The stream/downloader/request/response logic (used for downloading media) has been been almost entirely moved from the browser bridges into libmoon, with the browsers providing subclasses. (kangaroo, sde)

• Finally add argument checking to all wrapped plugin objects (fejj).

• Windowless mode fixes (lewing, toshok)

• Plugin event handling fixes (lewing)

Source: Mono.

YUI Developerrs team announced an update to Graded Browser Support in YUI blog. This post covers the following topics:

• Primary Changes

• GBS Forecast

• Notes Specific to the YUI Library

Source: YUI Blog.

ASP.NET

MVC Storefront, Part 15: Code Review With Ayende

JavaScript

eval() Kerfuffle

Why Javascript Creeps Me Out

CSS

Elastic Calendar Styling with CSS

JavaScript Libraries

jQuery Plugins, Size, and Storage

Flex

Flex Applications that Warn on Close

Google

Google Data APIs now easier to use for mashups

YUI

A YUI Grids-based WordPress Theme — YUI Autogrid Minimal

PHP
Using a PHP Proxy with Flex to talk Cross Domain

Java

The busy Java developer's guide to Scala: Collection type

Christophe Porteneuve post an article about binding in JavaScript. He writes:

«Most developers don’t know about—or don’t care enough about—binding in JavaScript. Yet this single issue is responsible for a sizeable portion of the questions on most JavaScript-related support channels, and thousands—if not millions—of hairs being tortured away from developer heads every single day. Yet with a little attention to this oft-overlooked subject, you can avoid wasting your time, energy, and patience and move on to more powerful, efficient scripting. »

Source: A List Apart.

Richard Wong post an article in which he describes following four FireFox Plugins that can enchance FireBug features:

• Jiffy

• Yslow

• FireCookie

• FirePHP

Steve Michelotte post an article about using JSON in ASP.NET MVC. He writes:

«The latest release of the MVC framework provides the JsonResult for Controller actions. I was surprised that I did not find a weatlh of examples for usage so I figured it shouldn't be too hard to get a decent example going. It turns out, it was even easier than I anticipated. I wanted to create an example where I would invoke an AJAX call to dynamically populate a dropdown list.

jQuery has recently received a huge surge of interest of the ASP.NET MVC community so I've been getting up to speed on it myself. I am quickly turning into a true believer and I've been impressed not only with how few lines of javascript it takes me to get things done but also how (relatively) easy it was to learn. In addition to numerous examples on the jQuery web site I also recommend jQuery In Action.»

Source: Steve Michelotte blog.