Richard Kotze

MVC .Net unexpected binding magic

Published on 7th May 2013

Binding magic or something slightly strange happens when you load in a view in your MVC app with a form field that shows the value of your model "id" property but your controller has a parameter name "id" as well. You most likely expect the field to display the model id but it does not.

Ways of setting opacity IE 5.5 to IE 8, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome

Published on 29th March 2013

There are a few ways you can now set opacity using CSS across web browsers which I will walk though in this post. Including how to set it for older browsers. I will also talk about another idea for setting opacity for an html element.

Mobile website or responsive design

Published on 18th February 2013

What is better to have a separate mobile or a responsive website? In this post I discuss some benefits and negatives about both options which hopefully will help you come to a better decision. With all the hype over responsive design you might sway in its favour but I think its worth considering your options that best benefit what your are trying to achieve.

A good setup for a testable JavaScript framework

Published on 10th February 2013

Here is some template code which I've put together to help setup a testable JavaScript framework. This also integrated with jQuery. You might be thinking what is the point of using this framework since there are plenty frameworks out there but this one is a script specifically for your website / app functionality.

The redesign of my website

Published on 30th January 2013

The new website design is now here. I have written this to explain why I spent my time redesigning a new website from scratch. I hope you all like what I have created.

Integrate LESS with MVC bundling

Published on 5th December 2012

Less is an excellent tool for any developer to help mange CSS code. SASS is also a great tool that does a similar job but this post is focused on LESS and bundling it with your ASP.NET MVC web application. It is possible to neatly integrate LESS with the bundling process, which I will explain and provide examples how to implement.

MVC 4 bundling CSS and JS files

Published on 18th November 2012

MVC 4 provides an excellent tool to help with optimising your web application called bundling. The idea of bundling is quite simple, you tend to have multiple CSS and JavaScript files which can be rolled up into one CSS and JS file. The contents of the files is also minified to reduce the individual file size. It might seem odd at first to bundle all your files into one but the idea is to reduce the number of http calls made, because a web browse