Categorie: reference

Web Developer’s Field Guide

This site is pretty much a collection of links that I’ve found very useful over the last year, or so. First, and foremost, I must thank Vitaly.Friedman for getting the vast majority of them together all in one place for the first time. I used his version of this page for many months before taking on the not small task of creating my own. Why would I do such a thing?

Web Developer’s Field Guide

HTML Entity Character Lookup

Using HTML entities is the right way to ensure all the characters on your page are validated. However, often finding the right entity code requires scanning through 250 rows of characters.

This lookup allows you to quickly find the entity based on how it looks, e.g. like an < or the letter c.

Left Logic : HTML Entity Character Lookup

UML TOOLBOX: 20+ UML Tools & Tutorials

UML is a globally accepted standard for software modeling in the technology community. Visualization with UML gives a punch to the whole development process. We’ve gathered over 20 Tools & Tutorials to help you get going with UML.

Mashable.com – UML TOOLBOX: 20+ UML Tools & Tutorials

Database Drivers not provided by Microsoft (Updated) – Joseph Guadagno

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)

Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents

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

Date and Time Format Patterns

Date and Time Format Patterns taken from AspAlliance.com

All the patterns:
0 MM/dd/yyyy 09/28/2007
1 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy Friday, 28 September 2007
2 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm Friday, 28 September 2007 07:06
3 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm tt Friday, 28 September 2007 07:06 AM
4 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy H:mm Friday, 28 September 2007 7:06
5 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy h:mm tt Friday, 28 September 2007 7:06 AM
6 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Friday, 28 September 2007 07:06:41
7 MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm 09/28/2007 07:06
8 MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt 09/28/2007 07:06 AM
9 MM/dd/yyyy H:mm 09/28/2007 7:06
10 MM/dd/yyyy h:mm tt 09/28/2007 7:06 AM
11 MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss 09/28/2007 07:06:41
12 MMMM dd September 28
13 MMMM dd September 28
14 yyyy’-‘MM’-‘dd’T’HH’:’mm’:’ss.fffffffK 2007-09-28T07:06:41.8436420-04:00
15 yyyy’-‘MM’-‘dd’T’HH’:’mm’:’ss.fffffffK 2007-09-28T07:06:41.8436420-04:00
16 ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH’:’mm’:’ss ‘GMT’ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:06:41 GMT
17 ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH’:’mm’:’ss ‘GMT’ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:06:41 GMT
18 yyyy’-‘MM’-‘dd’T’HH’:’mm’:’ss 2007-09-28T07:06:41
19 HH:mm 07:06
20 hh:mm tt 07:06 AM
21 H:mm 7:06
22 h:mm tt 7:06 AM
23 HH:mm:ss 07:06:41
24 yyyy’-‘MM’-‘dd HH’:’mm’:’ss’Z’ 2007-09-28 07:06:41Z
25 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Friday, 28 September 2007 07:06:41
26 yyyy MMMM 2007 September
27 yyyy MMMM 2007 September

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘d’ ) :
0 MM/dd/yyyy 09/28/2007

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘D’ ) :
0 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy Friday, 28 September 2007

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘f’ ) :
0 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm Friday, 28 September 2007 07:06
1 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm tt Friday, 28 September 2007 07:06 AM
2 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy H:mm Friday, 28 September 2007 7:06
3 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy h:mm tt Friday, 28 September 2007 7:06 AM

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘F’ ) :
0 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Friday, 28 September 2007 07:06:41

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘g’ ) :
0 MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm 09/28/2007 07:06
1 MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt 09/28/2007 07:06 AM
2 MM/dd/yyyy H:mm 09/28/2007 7:06
3 MM/dd/yyyy h:mm tt 09/28/2007 7:06 AM

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘G’ ) :
0 MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss 09/28/2007 07:06:41

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘m’ ) :
0 MMMM dd September 28

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘r’ ) :
0 ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH’:’mm’:’ss ‘GMT’ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:06:41 GMT

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘s’ ) :
0 yyyy’-‘MM’-‘dd’T’HH’:’mm’:’ss 2007-09-28T07:06:41

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘u’ ) :
0 yyyy’-‘MM’-‘dd HH’:’mm’:’ss’Z’ 2007-09-28 07:06:41Z

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘U’ ) :
0 dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Friday, 28 September 2007 07:06:41

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( ‘y’ ) :
0 yyyy MMMM 2007 September