Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Regions in Visual Studio for Javascript

I can't believe I didn't find this earlier. Collapsible regions for Javascript in Visual Studio 2010-

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Friday, August 19, 2011

.Net Generate QR Codes on the Fly

Pretty cool instructable tidbit on how to generate QR codes with .Net through an open source library.

http://www.jphellemons.nl/post/Generate-QR-Codes-with-AspNet-C.aspx

For one off's there are a few sites where you can generate QR's. Here is a link to one-

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

And a way to decode QR codes online (if you don't have a smart phone app handy) -

http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx

Some Useful Bookmarklets

Here is a bookmarklet that allows you to check out what font's are used on a website-

http://fount.artequalswork.com/

Here is another that allows you to add live notes to a web page-

http://markup.io/

I use the Share on Twitter bookmarklet all the time-

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/share-bookmarklet

Want to encrypt a message on Facebook or Twitter? Try this (Bookmarklet to the left of the page)

https://encipher.it/email-encryption

Thursday, August 18, 2011

HTML 5 Web Application Demo Worth Looking At

Dan Wahlin and a host of other .Net all stars created a demo HTML 5 web application that I suggest web developers look at (regardless of what server code you use on the back end, lots to be gleaned here). Here is a screen shot linked directly from Wahlin's blog-


Here is a list of the technologies used. There should be something to glean for everyone-

You can read about the application architecture and download it here-

Monday, August 01, 2011

Blizzard Goes User Based Micro Transactions

Very interesting...I like this model.  Diablo III will build it's revenue stream by taking a cut of micro transactions between players. The future is coming.

http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2011/08/blizzard-invents-new-business-model.html