Some development in .NET, Angular, TypeScript, CSS, and also something completely different
One thing that is particularly frustrating with caring about Web standards and accessibility is what often happens after your work is done and a site is handed over to the client.
I’m sure most of you have been there. Despite your hard work to educate the client’s editor(s), regardless of the style guide you wrote, and no matter how much time you spent patching the CMS they use, there will be problems.
456 Berea Street: Helping your client maintain markup quality
I wanted save some people some time looking for providers for their non-Microsoft databases to use with .NET. Please keep in mine I have not tried or used all of these providers / tools but have found them from searching and asking around. Based on some of the feed back and comments I added a few others.
Joseph Guadagno: Database Drivers not provided by Microsoft (Updated)
Ten CSS tricks you may not know
Here the list of online generators specifically for web 2.0 design: enjoy it!
Stuart Collville and Ed Eliot just launched a new CSS Sprite Generator tool, which is the first of many in a series of web-site performance tools.
For the uninitiated, a CSS Sprite is a single image file which contains several graphics. Using CSS background positions it’s possible to display any one of the graphics. By using a sprite you save on multiple http requests which helps speed up the rendering of your page.
The tool allows you to upload a zip of images which the script then concatenates into one image to be used as a CSS Sprite. The CSS offsets for each image are created and output and class-names for each image in the sprite can be generated from the filenames of each of the original images. In fact this approach is recommended.
A feature I’m really pleased with is the ability to screen out duplicate images, and either ignore them or have the classes merged to point to the same graphic. This is achieved through comparison of MD5 hashes of all of the uploaded files.
Original post at Ajaxian: CSS Sprite Generator Released
Here you can find the list with the standard set of fonts common to all versions of Windows and their Mac substitutes, referred sometimes as “browser safe fonts”. This is the reference I use when making web pages and I expect you will find it useful too.
from AMPsoft Web design tips & tricks:
Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents
From Jean-Paul S. BoodHoo’s Blog: Develop With PassionThat last part in the title is to indicate that for me, this is
something that has changed several times over the past year with a
change happening even within the last month.
Let me stress the fact that I am a big automated build junkie, and
am not really even a fan of compiling from within studio. To that end I
do the majority of my work using studio + ReSharper as the editor, and
NAnt (currently) as the compile/test tool coupled with FinalBuilder as
my deployment tool.
From Jean-Paul S. BoodHoo’s Blog: Develop With PassionThat last part in the title is to indicate that for me, this is
something that has changed several times over the past year with a
change happening even within the last month.
Let me stress the fact that I am a big automated build junkie, and
am not really even a fan of compiling from within studio. To that end I
do the majority of my work using studio + ReSharper as the editor, and
NAnt (currently) as the compile/test tool coupled with FinalBuilder as
my deployment tool.
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