Learn about Chrome DevTools at Code School

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 5/18/2013 6:06:00 PM

'Code School  teaches web technologies via online video tutorials. While most of their courses are paid, some like the course on Chrome DevTools are free. The Chrome DevTools course is well-produced and impressive.In my opinion, learning about DevTools within at least one browser is crucial to do a good job at web development. Some of the tricks you learn in the Code School Discover Chrome DevTools tutorial can easily be re-used with the Developer tools of other browse(...)'

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Book Review: Instant jQuery Drag-and-Drop Grids How-to

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 5/16/2013 2:28:00 PM

'Instant jQuery Drag-and-Drop Grids How-to is a beginner level book by Marcos Placona on getting started with the Gridster jQuery plugin.Gridster is a MIT licensed jQuery plugin that allows building intuitive draggable layouts from elements spanning multiple columns. You can even dynamically add and remove elements from the grid. It has an active following on GitHub. The minified version (jquery.gridster.min.js) of this powerful plugin  measures just 33KB. Gridster supports(...)'

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Glossary of keywords used in Microsoft Technologies

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 5/16/2013 3:26:00 AM

'I like keeping definitions of  keywords used in Microsoft technologies handy. This is a placeholder for links to online resources that have definitions.SharePoint 2010 Glossary - MSDNSharePoint 2013 Glossary - MSDNAzure Glossary (including SQL Database) - MSDN, TechnetWCF Glossary - MSDNC# Reference - MSDNwork in progress... Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia - A seasoned developer's little discoveries and annotated bookmarks.'

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TWIL - Week #6

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 5/12/2013 6:28:00 PM

'This Week I Learned:General:Standalone SWF, PDF files can be viewed with ChromeIn India, where one-in-six people are undernourished, an unlikely business is booming: obesity surgery. India is one of the fastest-growing centers in the $1.2 billion global market for bariatric devices.Samsung's cost of materials and manufacturing to produce the U.S. version of the S 4 is slightly above $237 a unit. This is higher than Apple's $217 production cost for a 32-gigabyte iPhone 5, which has a(...)'

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HOW TO view a .NET DLL's dependencies

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 5/6/2013 6:22:00 PM

'The simplest though not the most convenient way to view a .NET DLL's dependencies is to use the ildasm.exe toolClick on the Manifest node to view names of dependent assembliesThe manifest lists the names and versions of all other assemblies that the current assembly depends upon.If you're adding a reference via NuGet, you can find the dependencies from the information provided for each Package in the Package listing - Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia - A seasoned developer's (...)'

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TWIL - Week #5

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 5/5/2013 3:14:00 PM

'This Week I Learned:Programming-relatedWindows Azure SDK for .NET v2.0 has some nice updates. Windows Azure SDK for .NET is a fully open source project (Apache 2 license) hosted on GitHub.ProgrammableWeb maintains a directory of  programmable Web APIs. As per their recent count, there are 9,000 APIs!There are a bunch of alternatives for .NET Reflector - that brilliant tool which was initially freeTwitter is extending API v1 Retirement until June 11, 2013Words representing objec(...)'

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HOW TO easily autofit or scale wide images so that it fits within a Word document

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 5/2/2013 5:34:00 PM

'With the AutoFit option in Word, you can get a wide table copied from elsewhere scale neatly within your document. However, if you copy some wide images from an external source, there is no convenient AutoFit option as for a table.You have to select an image, right click on it and select the Size and Position... option. In the dialog box that opens up, specify desired scaling width and height. For best results, you can choose to lock the aspect ratioIf you have several images, you c(...)'

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TWIL - Week #4

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/28/2013 8:11:00 AM

'Twitter is in the process of testing a new feature that lets you discover tweets from people within a certain distance of your location. Students participating in the Mono Project in the 2013 Google Summer of Code can get paid $5,000. Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET. Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write(...)'

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Today, I'm 5 Twitter years old

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/25/2013 5:56:00 PM

'Twitter DM'ed me a "Happy 5th TwBirthday" along with this online greeting: How time runs!In these 5 years, Twitter helped me -...find insightful information in my areas of interest...reach out to people whose email addresses I don't know ...complain against or compliment service providers who have a Twitter presence...saved time by giving me the gist of whatever is making news...publicize my blog posts ...learn about brevity and still be expressiveRelated posts:World Citiz(...)'

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Default ASP.NET MVC 4 Solution created with Basic Template is 24MB!

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/24/2013 5:30:00 PM

'While copying a basic ASP.NET MVC 4 project sample from a different machine, I noticed that the project created using the Internet Application template was a whooping 27MB in size.The Packages folder takes up 27.4MB while the DLLs (47 of them compared to 29 in the MVC 3 project template) in the Bin folder were 5MB in size.The default ASP.NET MVC 4 Solution created with Basic Template was 24MB (Packages folder - 18MB, Bin folder - 4.34MB)Is there really a chance that anyone uses all (...)'

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TWIL - Week #3

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/21/2013 7:05:00 AM

'This Week I Learned:New Azure VM Image Templates include SQL Server, BizTalk Server, and SharePoint Server (2013?) images. This can be handy when you don't have time to build the environment to try one of those server technologiesIt is possible to run a ASP.NET web page on a Raspberry PiIf you want to show someone how your responsive website looks in just a single image, here's a nice tipDownload progress indicator is shown next to the address bar in Firefox version 20 & upwards(...)'

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The iPhone Story - Infographic

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/14/2013 1:32:00 PM

'I "discovered" this infographic which shows the iPhone models released so far along with their specs, on flickr via my World Citizen News app:click to view enlarge imageThe first iPhone was released on 29th June 2007 Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia - A seasoned developer's little discoveries and annotated bookmarks.'

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TWIL - Week #2

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/13/2013 4:15:00 PM

'This Week I Learned:Microsoft offers a minimum of 10 years of support for Business and Developer products. Microsoft is getting ready to pull the life support on Windows XP. Mixed Active Content is now blocked by default in Firefox 23. It has been happening already in Chrome. With Click-to-Run, you can start using Office before the whole suite or product has been downloaded. While you are using your application, the rest of Office is being downloaded quietly in the ba(...)'

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HOW TO show local time for a location based on its latitude and longitude

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/12/2013 6:17:00 PM

'Here is a GitHub Gist snippet that shows how to get local time for a location based on its latitude and longitude using World Weather Online's Time Zone API & jQuery - This can be useful in scenarios where you have to display time for a location relative to another. Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia - A seasoned developer's little discoveries and annotated bookmarks.'

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HOW TO display book titles in Amazon ads dynamically based on context or custom keywords

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/11/2013 12:48:00 PM

'The Recommended Product Links Amazon widget can be adapted to display book titles in Amazon ads dynamically based on context or custom keywords.Here is a GitHub Gist snippet that illustrates this - I have used this in our app to search for free eBooks from the Google Books collection. It improves the app by showing results from an additional info source and helps surface free Kindle eBooks that may be available for a specified keyword. Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia - A sea(...)'

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The World Citizen News mash-up

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/9/2013 7:55:00 PM

'Our latest app, World Citizen News gets you:the Twitter buzzweather forecast, local time & map for popular cities around the worldimages of selected location from flickrnews based on the trending Twitter topicsIt makes use of the following APIs:Twitter TrendsflickrWorld Weather Online for the local timeMapQuest Yahoo Weather via YQLGoogle NewsWhether you're a world citizen or a geography buff, try the World Citizen News mash-up to see what's happening around the world. T(...)'

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TILTW (ThingsILearnedThisWeek) - Week 1

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/6/2013 2:02:00 PM

'The bookmarking sites Delicious and Google Bookmarks haven't been working well for me. So on the lines of the TodayILearned section of Reddit, I plan to jot down interesting things I've learnt from the internet each week under the TILTW (ThingsILearnedThisWeek) label.Snipping tool isn't available in Windows Server 2012 & Windows Server 2008.Everything is a proprietary freeware Windows desktop search engine that can rapidly find files and folders by name on an NTFS volu(...)'

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Salary comparison websites - India

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/5/2013 4:10:00 AM

'A list of websites that use crowd-sourced information to compare salaries offered by Indian companies -PayScaleGlassdoorSalaryKhojJobinessZubyAlso see:Comparison of Payment GatewaysAids for comparative analysis of software tools/productsIndian comparison shopping sitesComparison of URL Shortener services Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia - A seasoned developer's little discoveries and annotated bookmarks.'

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Visual Studio 2012 Annoyances

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 4/4/2013 6:29:00 PM

'Having spent a few months with VS 2012, I like Visual Studio 2012 more than Visual Studio 2010 as it feels faster. Although I don't mind the menu titles in upper-case, there are quite a few features that annoy me.Track Active Item in Solution Explorer - I don't understand why this option has to be unchecked while almost all the rest in the group are checked.Word Wrap - why can't this be activated by default?Solution Explorer - When I open a project, the Solution Explorer stays (...)'

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Yahoo! Weather report for India

Author : Anil      Blog : Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia      Date : 3/25/2013 5:54:00 PM

'In my last post I showed how to find weather information for a place based on its WOEID using YQL & Yahoo! Weather API. The Yahoo! API will get you weather info for ANY place that has a WOEID - including a country. How do you generalize weather conditions for a country as big and diverse as India?The current conditions description (Smoke!) made me chuckle.Also see:JavaScript: The Good Parts - photo gag"Had to scramble to get dressed when someone wanted video on a call.(...)'

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