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Support for Worker Roles in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP

Since the release of version 4.0 of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP, one of the missing pieces has been the ability to package Worker roles as part of a...

0 replies - 3288 views - 10/08/11 by Brian Swan in News

An Auto-Scaling Module for PHP Applications in Windows Azure

One of the core value propositions of Windows Azure is the ability to have automatic, elastic scalability for your applications (i.e. automatically...

0 replies - 2869 views - 10/06/11 by Brian Swan in News

Node.js on Windows (or JavaScript for the backend)

What is Node? The simplest answer, albeit a simplistic answer, is that Node (or Node.js) is JavaScript on the server. Actually, it’s a more than just...

0 replies - 3673 views - 10/06/11 by Christopher Bennage in News

Restarting Node.js When Your Source Changes

I’m lazy. I remember reading somewhere that that was a desirable trait to have in a developer. I’m not sure where though, and honestly it’s just...

0 replies - 2616 views - 10/06/11 by Christopher Bennage in News

Squish your CSS and JS files in your ASP.NET web apps

SquishIt is a nice library that helps you nicely minify your CSS and JavaScript files with very small effort. The tool works perfectly fine in both ASP.NET...

2 replies - 3378 views - 10/03/11 by Hajan Selmani in News

What I learned from transferring my blog from WordPress to Orchard

It was a decision I was thinking about for quite a while now. Besides the fact that I am working mostly in the context of the .NET ecosystem, WordPress started...

0 replies - 2871 views - 10/03/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Reviewing SignalR–Part II

After reading this post from Scott Hanselman, I decided that I really want to take a look at SignalR. This is part two of my review. I cloned the repository...

1 replies - 4673 views - 09/20/11 by Ayende Rahien in News

ASP.NET MVC 4: New mobile web application template

ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview introduces also new template for mobile web applications. These templates are special because they are using jQuery Mobile ...

0 replies - 4242 views - 09/18/11 by Gunnar Peipman in News

Summer time learning: Getting started with Node.js

It is now a consolidate tradition for me to publish, during summer time, a list of the books I liked reading or that I bought and are sitting on my shelves...

1 replies - 4010 views - 09/05/11 by Simone Chiaretta in News

Adding Export Capabilities to the Razor WebGrid

When MVC first came out I really missed having a native grid control. Now a few years later, we have grid support again! In case, you didn’t know the...

1 replies - 5176 views - 09/05/11 by Michael Ceranski in News

ReCaptcha in ASP.NET MVC3

As a web developer we know what is captcha is. It’s way to confirm users as they are human.Following is captcha definition per WikiPedia. A CAPTCHA (...

0 replies - 5295 views - 09/05/11 by Jalpesh Vadgama in News

HTML5 Adoption Strategies

One of the questions that I got in the session that I delivered today was how to adopt HTML5 today? Since this was a very good question I decided to share...

0 replies - 4157 views - 09/05/11 by Gil Fink in News

Setting default value for @Html.EditorFor in ASP.NET MVC

Yesterday one of my friend asked me to set default value for @HTML.EditorFor. So I decided to write this blog post. In this blog post I am going to Explain...

0 replies - 8943 views - 08/21/11 by Jalpesh Vadgama in News

Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone - PIN Authentication

Now that we have the basic infrastructure ready, it is time to test the authentication mechanism itself. So we have the basic screen, that asks the user to...

2 replies - 6721 views - 08/18/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone - OAuth client & basic infrastructure

Twitter is now officially integrated in the Windows Phone OS as a part of the Mango update. However, it is always possible to extend the existing user...

5 replies - 9977 views - 08/16/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles