Archive for the ‘Web design’ Category
When diagnosing tech support issue for website visitors one of my co-workers found this great site that allows the users to email there details. It’s at http://supportdetails.com/ definitely useful for working out those pesky bugs.
Write regular CSS with your .NET apps, then add a few variables, mixins and nested rules.
.less (pronounced dot-less) is a .NET port of the funky ruby LESS libary
Lovingly ported by Christopher Owen, Erik van Brakel, Daniel Hoelbling and James Foster
Just click on the picture above, click on play, then leave the mouse alone , sit back and enjoy a piece of creative brilliance. I wonder who had ‘time’ to do this.
Probably well known by pretty much everyone except me but you can use http://www.whatthefont.com for idenitfying fonts. It also has a nice IPhone app which does the same job no matter where you are.
How to add pdf search to your sql server instance in about 40 steps ;^) It’s probably worth mentioning that installing the ifitler also adds the ability to search pdf files to the full text index for windows. So disk searching for content in pdf files should be possible as well but haven’t looked into this.
Are you looking for a reliable and professional website monitoring service that will notify you immediately if your website goes down? This company is pretty good only issue I’ve noticed is it doesn’t seem to like sending text messages from and to the same mobile number. Other than that highly recommended.
A very useful article for improving speed of .NET applications, has an excellent section on webservices. Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
It’s part of the Patterns and Practices section of microsofts site which you can find at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/practices/default.aspx
This amazing video is so true to life, if you are involved in graphic design or web design this is required viewing. Graphic Designer vs client
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