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Motti Shaked
posted 13 hours agoINTERMEDIATEBuilding REST API with MVC 4 Web API - Part 2
In part 1 of this tutorial, we learned how to build a REST Web API using ASP .NET MVC. We also wrote a simple Web API to maintain a database of Chuck Norris facts. We will keep building on this example in this part, as we... -
Mark Coleman
posted yesterdayBEGINNERPhoneGap and AngularJs, The Start
This series of tutorials will focus on using PhoneGap and AngularJs together in an iOS application. We will start off small but build upon the PhoneGap api to expose some AngularJs services so the both play nice... -
Mitchell Hashimoto
posted 2 days agoINTERMEDIATEIntermediate RubyGem Development
This tutorial introduces intermediate level information on how to develop RubyGems. This builds on and expects the knowledge covered in the Basic RubyGem Development post. If you're new to RubyGem development, please start... -
David Sale
posted 3 days agoBEGINNERBootstrap your Web Application with Ruby & Sinatra
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how you can rapidly create a good looking website, with as little code as possible. By making use of the awesome Bootstrap templates that Twitter have provided, alongside Ruby and... -
Todd Motto
posted 4 days agoINTERMEDIATEProgressively enhancing HTML5 forms, creating a 'required' attribute fallback with jQuery
HTML5 required attributes are a fantastic addition to the HTML5 spec, they save a lot of time when working on client-side form validation and enhance the user's experience. The HTML5 required attribute provides us with full... -
Jonathan Creamer
posted 7 days agoADVANCEDDeep dive into Require.js
Require.js is one of my favorite ways to write JavaScript these days. It's modularity breaks up larger apps into smaller, manageable pieces. The optimizer is a powerful tool capable of squashing the largest of apps into the... -
Khalid Abuhakmeh
posted 9 days agoINTERMEDIATEServiceStack and RavenDB End to End Testing
The unit testing debate is over, and you SHOULD be unit testing. The bigger question now is how to unit test. The problem of how becomes more compounded once you start introducing complex dependencies. I am often left... -
Lalith Polepeddi
posted 9 days agoINTERMEDIATEGetting Started with Jekyll Plugins
Jekyll is a static site generator, which means that it converts your website's assets into a bunch of static HTML pages that you can deploy to your favorite hosting option. Jekyll offers useful functionality out of the box,... -
Cody Lindley
posted 10 days agoINTERMEDIATEJavaScript Regular Expression Enlightenment
Outline Introduction Who Should Read This? Regular Expression Overview Constructing A JavaScript Regular Expression Object The Nature & Purpose Of A Regular Expression Regular Expression Interpretation & Logic ... -
Motti Shaked
posted 14 days agoINTERMEDIATEBuilding REST API with MVC 4 Web API - Part 1
Chuck Norris doesn't use web standards. The web conforms to him. Modern web applications sometimes need to provide an API. In some cases the API is needed for internal use by the web application, as a page is being... -
Mark Coleman
posted 15 days agoINTERMEDIATEHow to Write a Simple AngularJs Directive
After using AngularJs for awhile I needed to extend the built in `$filter("currency")` to add a bit of css magic to some of my elements. I wanted to add a class to the text so I can style the element to give it a distinct... -
Jeff Burtoft
posted 16 days agoBEGINNERChroma Key Video Effects Using JavaScript and the HTML5 Canvas Element
HTML5 excels when it comes to multimedia, and the canvas tag is a huge part of that success. In this quick example were going to create a Chrome Key effect, or “green screen” effect, on a web video using a video tag, two... -
Tuna Toksoz
posted 17 days agoINTERMEDIATEIntroduction to Closure Tools
Writing Javascript is not trivial. With all the dynamicity it brings, function level scoping, lack of class syntax and all makes it really hard to tackle. Well, no longer... I wasn't a javascript developer until 3-4 months... -
David Walsh
posted 18 days agoINTERMEDIATE9 More Ways to Optimize Your Front End Performance
In my previous post, 9 Ways to Optimize Your Front End Performance, I shared easy to implement ideas for improving your client-side code and performance. Most of those tips take only a few moments to implement and the... -
Khalid Abuhakmeh
posted 21 days agoINTERMEDIATEBlacksmith - IronMQ Client Library (Fun with Queues)
Introduction I have been on a queueing kick lately, and have been looking for a software as a service provider that offers a queuing system in the cloud. The first obvious choices were: Windows Azure Service Bus and Amazon... -
Scott González
posted 22 days agoINTERMEDIATESimplifying Dynamic Positioning with jQuery UI
When building web applications or interactive widgets, it's often necessary to position an element relative to something else. As a few examples, an autocomplete suggestion list may appear below the text field the user is... -
Florian Rappl
posted 23 days agoINTERMEDIATEAdvanced programming with C#
This tutorial aims to give a brief and advanced introduction into programming with C. The prerequisites for understanding this tutorial are a working knowledge of programming, the C programming language and a little bit of... -
Lalith Polepeddi
posted 24 days agoBEGINNERDeploying Flask to Heroku and Creating an Android App with PhoneGap
In the previous article we developed a RESTful API that provided access to data covering more than 60,000 reports of UFO sightings by location. In this article, I'll show you how to deploy the API to production so that you... -
David Walsh
posted 25 days agoINTERMEDIATE9 Ways to Optimize Your Front End Performance
As our browsers implement more and more features and the web moves more and more toward mobile devices, the need to keep our front end code compact and optimized becomes more important. What's great about the front end is... -
Khalid Abuhakmeh
posted 28 days agoINTERMEDIATEUsing RestfulRouting with ASP.Net MVC
Introduction Routing is arguably the most important part of any web application. Good routes give you many advantages: - Hackable urls - Search engine optimization - make clear relationships These are only a few of the... -
Motti Shaked
posted 29 days agoINTERMEDIATEAsynchronous Controllers in ASP .NET MVC
Things are really going well. Your website, which had very few hits until recently, has been covered by the tech media and become popular overnight. But for some reason your MVC web application doesn't seem to scale and is... -
Jesse Cravens
posted one month agoINTERMEDIATEModern Ember.js Application Workflow with Yeoman and Mocha
The following tutorial will provide an overview for building Ember.js applications with Yeoman. Keep in mind, Yeoman is a framework agnostic collection of tools, used to manage the workflow of any JavaScript application or... -
Leland Richardson
posted one month agoINTERMEDIATEHandling Paged Datasets in Knockout.JS
KnockoutJS provides the plumbing to create very powerful web applications, but leaves most of the logic up to the developer. That's great, and I don't think it should be any different, but developers need to look out for... -
Kamran Ayub
posted one month agoBEGINNERPut the Cloud to Work, pt 1: Create a Background Worker Using Quartz.NET
Background workers are pretty awesome. They're useful for all sorts of tasks like: - Generating images - Refreshing data - Checking for notifications - Sending emails or other messages - etc. Are you looking to offload a... -
Motti Shaked
posted one month agoADVANCEDAsynchronous Programming in C# - Advanced Topics
In the previous tutorial, I introduced the `async` and `await` keywords and described how they make asynchronous programming almost as simple as synchronous programming. In this tutorial we'll build on this knowledge and...
