
Unobtrusive JavaScript and events Where are we at? In the first part of this tutorial, we downloaded the jQuery libraries, configured our web server (hopefully that went well, as I didn’t tell you how to do it) and wrote an incredibly trivial little sample page to get us started. …

Razor is an alternate view engine for asp.net MVC. It was introduced in the “WebMatrix” tool and has now been released as part of the asp.net MVC 3 preview 1. Basically, Razor allows us to replace the clunky <% %> syntax with a much cleaner coding model, which integrates very nicely with HTML. Additionally, it provides some really nice features for master page type scenarios and you don’t lose access to any of the features you are currently familiar with, such as HTML helper methods.

If you’ve done any web development in the last decade or so, JavaScript is a part of your daily life, but possibly a very painful part. JQuery is a quick and easy answer to that. JQuery is an advanced wrapper around JavaScript that provides fixes for browser incompatibility as well as making things like handling button clicks and Ajax easy.

Introduction to Enterprise Cloud Computing Either through curiosity or because it makes you a better driver and owner, most of us learn the basics of how our car works. Doing so makes us better drivers and better car owners. Similarly, so that we can choose the right kind of Cloud and …

jQuery is an open source JavaScript library that enables you to manipulate DOM content in your web pages seamlessly. It was released in 2006 by John Resig. Since that time, it has become widely popular the world over and amongst the web application development community.

Last week I was checking out some of the Typography Mania posts, and got really inspired to try something new. So I decided to create an abstract composition with light effects and apply that as a texture of a text, everything done only using Photoshop.

Have you ever had to take over a project, fix a bug, or code a feature? How often have you felt uncertain, lost, or upset? How many times have you wanted to find the guy who wrote the piece of code you’re working on and … thank him warmly? See figure 1. If you’re living in the same world as we are, it’s happened to you at least few times.

I have long been a fan of the look of gold when represented digitally and today I came across a few gold text tutorials and have put them together for your viewing pleasure.

Classes are an integral part of Object Orientation, encapsulating state and behavior for each component in a larger system, thereby allowing us to express our software in terms of the structures and relationships which link its autonomous component parts.

It’s nice that we can create changes in Groovy objects that can be observed by an interested party, but that is only half the story. Really, we want to do some cool stuff with these changes, and what would be really magical is if we could do some of these things automatically.