Many developers are familiar with the ASP.Net Web Configuration Manager in Visual Studio to maintain or create users in their SQL databases. The application allows the creation of users, as well as role creation and assignment. However, to my surprise, this functionality is no longer available in Visual Studio 2013.
We often rely on photography to get a point or idea across at a speed that words just cannot match because so much can be said with the right photo. When you are creating a new website or marketing campaign, you will be faced with a choice…
BarCamp Tampa Bay has come and gone for 2014. This year’s event was held on Saturday, October 18th at USF’s College of Business. It was my first BarCamp event, and being billed as “a day by geeks, for geeks, and about geeks” I was really looking forward to it. I’ve written up a review of the conference in general and of the sessions I attended from this year’s event.
This is a question that brings out very strong beliefs on either side. On one side of the room are those who stand firmly opposed to writing tests to cover coded solutions. They claim things like “It costs more money to ‘waste’ time on writing tests….
The date, January 9, 2007. It was a controversial day, feelings of anxiousness and excitement clashed with feelings of envy and jealousy. It was a day to change the face of the mobile world. A day that would revolutionize the way content was designed, developed, and deployed across the globe. It was the day the world changed forever, the day of…the iPhone.
Over the years, there has been a misconception of what SharePoint is and how businesses can leverage the technology. Most Companies in the past hear the word SharePoint and immediately think file storage which turns into a document dumping ground. SharePoint is so much more than a place to store your documents, it’s a platform that allows you to build and style sites that are user friendly.
As a web designer, one of the day-to-day challenges is staying up-to-date with the newest tools and programs available. One of the most important for designers in the past couple of years has been the rise in popularity of CSS pre-processors. Sass, or Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets, is one example and provides many useful features that speed up writing CSS, maintaining a CSS design code base, and ultimately aids in the faster completion of projects.
As a programmer there have been many times when I have found a bottle neck in an app I’ve written that comes down to waiting on some kind of input. Usually you end up needing the result of this input for the next step in your code and thus the wait is necessary.
When faced with a problem that needs to be solved with precision, no one would even consider not measuring carefully two, maybe even three times. Consider a carpenter building a bookcase the full length and height of a wall – he has absolutely no room to spare, he must be precise in the angles he cuts.
Many website owners have heard about Google’s Analytics, and many are using it right now. But few know the full features and benefits that this tool holds. For those who are unfamiliar with Google Analytics, it is an entirely free tool that allows a website owner to monitor the traffic that their website receives and provides detailed metrics based on those visits. For the un-initiated, this might seem like a fairly mundane tool.