CSS3 Playground

In: Web

28 Jul 2010

The CSS3 Playground is a web application for experimenting with some new css3 capabilities. Primarily those than conform to the progressive enhancement philosophy, which means that the styles can be used on all sites without severely changing/limiting the experience on browsers that does not support them (=Internet Explorer 8.0 and older). But there are also styles that may need better replacements on Internet Explorer such as rotation, and I hope I will have the time to add more in the future.

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This is a short summary of the talks during the second day of Scandinavian Web Developers Conference in Stockholm, June 3, 2010. Please note that it is a very short summary with abbreviations and contexts that might only make sense to me (if even that).

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This is a short summary of the talks during the first day of Scandinavian Web Developers Conference in Stockholm, June 2 2010. Please note that it is a very short summary with abbreviations and contexts that might only make sense to me (if even that).
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Coming from a Windows and .NET background, I had some trouble understanding how to interact with the ListView control and context menu creation in Android. Context menus are supposed to be shown on your mobile device when you touch/click the screen and hold on for a longer time. So here is how to determine which item is long-clicked and how to show a context menu for it. Read the rest of this entry »

Actually, I stumbled upon this when I decided to try out Office 2010 beta. I haven’t found any official documentation about how to connect to Windows Live SkyDrive with WebDAV (or any API), so I’m not sure how well supported this will be in the future. If you find any word about this from Microsoft, please let me know in the comments. The good news is that it works. The bad news is that it is very slow, but being 25 GB for free I guess you get what you pay for speed-wise (understandably). Read the rest of this entry »

Scott Guthrie’s first visit to Sweden was of course nothing I was going to miss. It sounded especially interesting since the top was Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0, none of which I thought had gotten due attention at TechEd Europe in Berlin last month. This is the man that co-invented ASP.NET and more recently the MVC framework on top of ASP.NET. Would he wear that red tennis t-shirt that has become his signature? Yes! And the presentation was well worth waiting for also. Read the rest of this entry »

So I have finally found some time to experiment with Windows Azure. My starting-point is that I’m a freelance developer that needs hosting services in order to try out several different ideas of my own.

I first wanted to get a better understanding of what a virtual machine looks like in Windows Azure. What is it exactly? I know it’s a Microsoft Windows Server box running on Hyper-V, at least that is what Microsoft has told me. But then what? Read on to discover some of my findings. Note, however, that I’m not an expert and I’m sure that some of my findings and questions could be answered by reading documentation somewhere but I like to get my hands dirty by looking under the hood. Read the rest of this entry »

This problem really had me worried for a few hours today. I was working as usual on my recently purchased Dell XPS Studio 435MT when all of the sudden the network died. I have a cable connection to a switch, which is connected to an Asus router which is then connected to an ADSL provider.

So I started to investigate my cabling and restarting switch and router, but nothing helped. I then verified that my network was ok by starting my backup laptop and it did get an internet connection so everything was fine there. Read the rest of this entry »

So the last day of TechEd is over. After a full week, my brain is a little tired. The last day doesn’t have the same energy as the other days. I find it somewhat unfortunate. The lunch was only a bag with sandwich, salad and stuff. The lunch break is shortened and only one session after lunch. Of course, people want to go home since I assume their brains are as tired as mine. But I did manage to retrieve some previously unknown facts for Silverlight. Read the rest of this entry »

Half time has passed and it is time to secure the most valuable knowledge before the week has ended. The tactics of session selection is complex. You could go for the topics that interest you the most, but since all of the breakout sessions are being recorded I would recommend to go more on the speaker than the subject. That is, do you recognize the speaker name as someone who usually presents with passion, knowledge and wit, choose that session even if the actual topic isn’t your highest priority. Read the rest of this entry »

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I'm a freelance web and mobile developer that likes to share whatever experiences I might encounter. It used to be .NET related, and still is to large extent, but I'm also a struggling agnostic trying out interesting technologies from the big three - Microsoft, Google, Apple - and the open source world.

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