In a normal hosting environment, you would be screwed. You would have to contact your hosting provider, provision new servers, configure them, get them online and get them integrated and communicating with each other via a load balancer or some other approach. This isn’t going to happen in 15 minutes.
In the last installment we introduced the basic concepts behind the Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework and built a very simple example, expending a ton of effort for very little return. In this installment, we’ll actually utilize the framework to build an application demonstrating pluggable components in use.
Most developers at one time or another have found it necessary to componentize their application to allow new pieces to be “plugged in” without rebuilding the application. While there are existing frameworks which address this area, such as one of the many Dependency Injection frameworks, they tend to be much broader in scope, and therefore more complicated to use.
If you are a webmaster, developer or designer and currently own, or plan on getting, an iPad here are 9 apps that I have found particularly helpful for general website management. Some of these apps are free and some require a one-time fee.
Bugs occur. Once you accept that fact, you can do something about it. There are bugs in every piece of software with even a minimal level of complexity. Various options exist to address these. Manual testing is one, but it is often hard to reproduce, or just isn’t done. Automated testing is also possible, and useful, particularly with regards to test driven development. But even this has problems because poorly written tests require debugging themselves. In short, there is NO silver bullet. There are, however, more tools available.
This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create a design featuring a colorful explosion contrasting with grayscale elements. This design heavily relies on the creative use of brushes, patterns and Photoshop tools/effects. Though this tutorial was created in Photoshop CS5, you should have no problems achieving the same effect in any Photoshop CS version. [...]
Social media and social networking are an integral part of developing and maintaining an online recognition. Online recognition works towards immense prosperity. Robert Scoble, Jeff Atwood, Guy Kawasaki, all of them have been early adopters of technology and have continuously shared their experiences helping people to adopt these technologies at the same time. Most tech [...]
This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a grungy design based on the concept of ‘music’ by starting off from a simple picture. The effect is achieved using textures, layer adjustments and several Photoshop tools. The same technique can be used to illustrate other concepts in a similar manner.
Coding in Razor When last we met… In the last installment, we took a look at partial views in the Razor engine. Our last stop on the current preview view engine will be looking at the various control structures and other features provided by this version of Razor. Of course, as soon as another preview [...]
Cascading Style Sheets and jQuery Where are we at? In the first part of this tutorial, we downloaded and configured jQuery. In the second part we took a look at some basic event handling, unobtrusive JavaScript and very simple selectors. In this and the next installment, we will take a much more detailed look at [...]
