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HTML 5 – Useful Links

Some useful HTML 5 related links, Standard Specshttp://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.http://caniuse.com HOW WELL DOES YOUR BROWSER SUPPORT HTML5?www.html5test.com HTML5 IE enabling scripthttp://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/ HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.http://html5boilerplate.com/

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WCF Data Services and Enums

Enums are currently not supported in WCF Data Services, and option seems to be to use either integer and constant values or string and constant values. A data contract will work with WCF services, but since WCF Data Services is tied to EF… slightly different as OData doesn’t support it either.

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Using canvas element in HTML 5

Canvas is an interesting HTML5 feature. HTML 5 defines the <canvas> element as “a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly.” A canvas is a rectangle in your page where you can use JavaScript to draw anything you want. Here’s a quick example […]

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5 tools I like

RichCopy – is a powerful, multi-threaded alternative to the popular RoboCopy file copy utility.LINQPad – Good interactive tool to query database and learn LINQ.Fiddler – Cool debugging proxy for checking out HTTP traffic.Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly.BugShooting Screen capture tool

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Leading a volunteer organization

In smaller towns, there are not a lot of technical events or conferences and if you are interested in learning or meeting other people with a passion for technology you have to travel to larger cities. So I got really interested when I heard of a fledgling .net user group and wanted to support it. […]

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HTML5 – Useful Links

Some useful HTML 5 related links, Standard Specs http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers. http://caniuse.com HOW WELL DOES YOUR BROWSER SUPPORT HTML5? www.html5test.com HTML5 IE enabling script http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/ HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site. http://html5boilerplate.com/

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Javascript Performance

I think document.queryselectorAll is slower then a straight document.getElementsByTagName. Found the following site that is good for javascript performance comparison, Javascript performance testing site

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Configuration file attributes

The configSource attribute in .config files can be used in a section to source other configuration files. This was introduced in ASP.Net 2.0 and also handy in WCF configuration.<configuration> <system.serviceModel> <services configSource=MySvc.config > </services></configuration>

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Browsers?

Here’s a list of other browsers besides big non-IE names like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera… Maxthon, Flock, Arora, Lunascape, SRWare Iron, Kmeleon, and QTWeb.

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ELMAH

ELMAH ( “Error Logging Modules and Handlers” ) is a useful error logging pluggable tool for ASP.NET web applications. It can be configured to log nearly all unhandled exceptions and the log can be even remotely viewed.

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