13 Really Useful Online CSS Tools to Streamline Development CSS is nearly used on every modern website design. However, having to write and structure CSS code from scratch every time you have a project is extremely time consuming. Below, we present you with 13 amazingly useful CSS tools for hacking on writing time consuming code. We tried to place emphasis on unknown tools that every developer should have a looksy at, however don’t be surprised if we included a few known sources. CSS Cheat Sheets As simple tool as this may seem, the CSS Cheat Sheet can be very useful. Telerik Visual Style Builder Telerik Visual Style Builder is an online CSS customization tool that allows you to easily, point-and-click customization of skins for the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. This tool is ideal for ASP.NET developers. CSS Type Set CSS Type Set, a hands-on typography tool which allows the every day designer and developer fully test and learn how to style Web content. CSS Frame Generator Grid Designer MoreCSS YAML Builder Drawter Deploy Blueprint Grid CSS Generator
Contributions to Entity framework community - Zeeshan Hirani If you had been reading my blog, you must be wondering where did he go after publishing such awesome blog entries(jk). I had gotten lot of good feed back on the examples I had done on linq to SQL but like all good things must come to an end so did linq to SQL for me. My company was committed in moving forward with EF so I decided to move forward with Entity framework as well. During the process I learned so much stuff and felt the pain most developers went through with this technology. No doubt EF has a learning curve like any other technology but mapping scenarios offered by EF are simply great. May be the reader base can get the same perception about EF and the mapping scenarios it offers even in version 1 as I did, after reading the PDF that contains 500 pages of content about entity framework. Below is a link to the PDF document that contains examples of various mapping scenarios and concepts that I have learned about entity framework Entity Framework learning guide Update 6/14/2010
PxLoader | A Simple JavasScript Preloader A JavaScript Preloader for HTML5 Apps PxLoader is a Javascript library that helps you download images, sound files or anything else you need before you take a specific action on your site (like showing a user interface or starting a game). You can use it to create a preloader for HTML5 games and websites. It let's you monitor download status by providing progress and completed events and it lets you prioritize the order in which items are downloaded. You can even tag groups of files and then prioritize downloads or register for events by tag. We created PxLoader for the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope and out of the box works great with images and sound files (the types of resources we needed for the game), but it's designed to be extensible and work with any file type or other network action. Step by Step Instructions 1. *The sound file downloader works with SoundManager 2 and allows it do the heavy lifting of the actual download. 2. 3. Download Images Before Drawing to a Canvas add(resource)
Programming Methodology - Download free content from Stanford Humor - How to Shoot Yourself In the Foot Using Any Programming Language The proliferation of modern programming languages (all of which seem to have stolen countless features from one another) sometimes makes it difficult to remember what language you're currently using. This guide is offered as a public service to help programmers who find themselves in such dilemmas. 370 JCL You send your foot down to MIS with a 4000-page document explaining how you want it to be shot. Three years later, your foot comes back deep-fried. Ada After correctly packaging your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream, and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover that your foot is of the wrong type. APL You shoot yourself in the foot, then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters. ASP.NET Find a gun, it falls apart. Assembly You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover you must first reinvent the gun, the bullet, and your foot. BASIC Shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol.
HTML Goodies: The Ultimate HTML Resource: Free HTML, CSS, JavaScript Tutorials Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design Top 6 List of Programming Top 10 Lists How To Create A Simple Google Chrome App In Less Than 5 Minutes If you take a look at Google’s “Web Store” many Google Chrome apps listed there are basically just quick ways to access web-pages. For example, the official Google Docs app does what? It opens docs.google.com. The Hootsuite app? Etc. While that may defeat the purpose of an app (shouldn’t it be more than just a bookmark?) Creating A Custom Chrome Dashboard When you start up Google Chrome, you have two options: 1. 2. UPDATE: Google recently changed its “new tab” page, hiding the apps. “Users who want to restore the previous design should type “ in the omnibox — minus the quotation marks — locate the “Enable Instant Extended API” setting in the long list, and change it from “Enable” to “Disable.”” – makeuseof Seeing these big icons on start-up can be an advantage to the often cluttered gallery of mini-screenshots of recently visited webpages. It’s more focused, clean and enables super-quick access to everyday functions even when your eyes are tired. Here’s how it goes: – An icon 1.
Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time I hope you have enjoyed our collection of funny computer quotes, Linux quotes, and all those quotes that we have shared with you so far. For today, I've decided to gather a good number of my all-time favorite programming-related quotes. Most of the programming quotes I've collected are made by some of the famous names in the industry, while others came from not-so-famous people. Nevertheless, they are all witty so I hope you will find them fascinating and enlightening. Without further delay, here are my top 50 programming quotes of all time: 50. - Rick Cook 49. - Alan Kay. 48. - Edward V Berard 47. - Olav Mjelde. 46. - Alan J. 45. - Waldi Ravens. 44. - Bjarne Stroustrup 43. - Eric S. 42. - Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering 41. - Oktal 40. - pixadel 39. - Bill Clinton 38. - E.W. 37. - Roberto Waltman. 36. 35. - Bill Bryson 34. - Blair P. 33. - Alan J. 32. - Ron Sercely 31. - Thomas C. 30. - Cory Dodt 29. - Linus Torvalds 28. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 27. - Dennis M. 26. - Yoggi Berra 25. - Jim McCarthy