Web Developer

“Sorry, can you say that again?”, I hear you ask. Certainly: you can still use >! Despite HTML5 bringing us new elements like >, >, and >, the > element still has its place. Let the HTML5 Doctor tell you why.
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Ant may be unfashionable these days, but it still has its advantages. Key among these are familiarity and simplicity: most Java developers have worked with Ant, and with an Ant build what you get is what you see. A major disadvantage, though, is that Ant provides very little out-of-the-box.. [...]
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One of nice features of ASP.NET MVC 3 is support for multiple view engines. There will be two out-of-box view engines: one for classic ASPX-based views and one for Razor-based views. In this posting I will show you this new feature and demonstrate how to use different view engine in same project.. [...]
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I am embarking in a series of mini post called .NET hidden gems, not necessarily new bits but usually unknown. They are dedicated to those small features and components that are not commonly used but can deliver interesting value in certain scenarios.. [...]
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I completely missed this great new feature build in PHP 5.2 since I haven’t been using much vanilla PHP lately due to my preference for CodeIgniter.
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What if your phone automatically went silent when you step into the movie theater? Texted your significant other when you finished your long commute? Or automatically turned down the volume when a particularly loud friend called? It can; here’s how.
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The Two Step View pattern, as its own name suggests, proposes a mechanism composed of two steps for generating an HTML page: first, a logical representation of the page is produced, as a map (key => value) of the different elements of the page. Then, the physical representation is rendered, by juggling around the single [...]

This post demonstrates that the backup of a FILESTREAM database in SQL Server 2008/R2 may also include garbage files that are lying around at the time of taking the backup.
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In this article we recreate an analog knob on Android. The result includes realistic touch-based rotation, worn textured look and even sound effects. Source is included.
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Today’s article demonstrates how to create a tar.gz file in a single pass in Java.
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