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| Silverlight Recipes : Controls - Creating a Composite User Control |
| Silverlight offers two kinds of controls: user controls and custom controls. User controls are an effective way to package UI and related client-side processing logic tied to a specific business or application domain into a reusable unit that can then be consumed as a tag in XAML, similar to any other built-in primitive shape like Ellipse or Rectangle. |
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| Dropbox For Teams: Suitable For Business? |
| Dropbox is one of those products that can get under your skin. Once you start using it in anger you’ll find its combination of “just enough power” coupled with an “invisible in daily use” UI is entirely compelling. It’s one of those rare products that just works. |
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| ASP.NET State Management : The Session’s State |
| The HttpSessionState class provides a dictionary-based model of storing and retrieving session-state values. Unlike HttpApplicationState, this class doesn’t expose its contents to all users operating on the virtual directory at a given time. |
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| ASP.NET State Management : The Application’s State |
| In spite of their quite unfamiliar names, the HttpApplicationState and HttpSessionState objects are state facilities totally compatible with classic Active Server Pages (ASP) intrinsic objects such as Application and Session. Ad hoc properties known as Application and Session let you use these objects in much the same way you did in ASP. |
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| Tiptoeing Into Social Media (Part 2) |
| A recent social media conversation, for instance, alerted the digital team to a problem with the wording on the company’s website that made it difficult for customers to log in. Youngdahl relayed the posts to the company’s Web team and IT department and showed them a report on the trending topic and related keywords. |
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| Tiptoeing Into Social Media (Part 1) |
| Social networking is serious business within regulated industries. Posts pertaining to finance, insurance and healthcare, in particular, require adherence to strict government and industry regulations. However, even with the rule-a-palooza, some companies in these industries have not only found ways to keep regulators happy, but have also made social networking a productive and key part of doing business. |
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| Training Get An Extreme Makeover (Part 2) |
| Providing techies with a crash course in business principles is one thing. Offering them hands-on training in areas such as app development 01* Web design, however, requires plenty of processing power and valuable IT resources. But cloud computing is changing all that, allowing trainees to experiment without draining IT resources. |
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| Training Get An Extreme Makeover (Part 1) |
| For Jerome Provensal, it training hasn’t always been a pleasant experience. In fact, “stuck-in-a-classroom training courses taught by semi-inspired instructors of uneven quality” is how Provensal, director of software development at ITG, describes much of his IT education. |
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| How Google Search Engine Search |
| Search engines serve users with the specific information they are looking for over the Web. These are highly potent tools that offer specific and fast search results to the users by providing information stored on other sites. They offer users high ease to access the Web. |
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| Learn How To… Find Your Dream Career |
| LinkedIn, the professional social networking site, has grown steadily over the last few years, and now has more than 187 million members worldwide. It is designed to help you exchange information, ideas and job opportunities with people in similar career fields to yours, and with new members joining the network at a rate of approximately two new members per second and more and more recruiters coming to use its powerful employee-finding tools, there’s never been a better time to get your details |
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| Atomic Learning - Educational Technology |
| With not enough hours in the day to teach, let alone satisfy the Common core requirements, it’s hard for teachers to keep up with two major demands on their time – taking on more professional development and learning emerging and existing technology. Enter Atomic Learning. With its 55,000 tutorials on 250 applications, teachers can quickly and easily stay current on both. |
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| DIY - Make Your Own CMS (Part 2) |
| The great thing about Django is that even with this, our site already has an admin panel, it just doesn’t know about our new data yet. So we need to tell it. Create a new file calledadmin.pyin the movies directory, and add the following code to it: |
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| DIY - Make Your Own CMS (Part 1) |
| As many wise people will tell you, avoid making your own CMS, make modules for an existing open source CMS instead. The are many reasons for this more work, less people who understand your code, poor security. Yet, with the right framework all this can be avoided. |
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| Careers In Web Analytics And SEO |
| Due to the rapid proliferation of the Web and constantly-connected devices, digital marketing has become an inevitable career option for number-crunching geeks. And two of the most engaging facets of digital marketing are SEO and Web Analytics. |
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| Chrome - A Free Web Browser |
| Apple’s popular adage that “there’s an app for that” which they largely meant for mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad can be tweaked to “there’s an extension for that” and applied to most popular Web browsers these days. Here we take a look at hand-picked Google Chrome extensions that enhance your time on the Web and optimize your browser experience. |
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| ASP.NET 4 and WPF Content (part 1) - What Is WPF? |
| The limitations of the classic Windows API prompted Microsoft to develop a new programming interface: the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). With WPF, programming special effects for Windows-based applications (including presenting Web content, as described later) is very approachable. |
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| ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010 : XML Explained |
| The best way to understand the role XML plays is to consider the evolution of a simple file format without XML. For example, consider a simple program that stores product items as a list in a file. |
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| ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010 : Files and Streams - Allowing File Uploads |
| Although you've seen detailed examples of how to work with files and directories on the web server, you haven't yet considered the question of how to allow file uploads. The problem with file uploading is that you need some way to retrieve information from the client—and as you already know, all ASP.NET code executes on the server. |
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