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I’ve moved away from using a Git GUI to command line, I typically used GitExtensions. The reason being, it’s a little annoying having to open any GUI to make a commit and push. It is quicker to use the command line and you learn more about how Git works.
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To follow on from the testing post I wrote on Findmypast tech blog for stubbing dependances in commonJS using proxyquire.
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This project was about using Ionic Framework to build a mobile app and publish it to the Android play store.
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I gave a talk at ShoreditchJS meetup about how to get started with Ionic framework for Android on Windows and Mac OS.
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I have picked a few useful features of JavaScript which you might find helpful and I will explain how to use them.
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This is a continuation from preview selected images tutorial, I will now explain how to take the multiple selected file data and upload it to the server
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This is the continuation of how to open a multi select file dialogue just using JavaScript. In this tutorial I will explain how to preview the selected files before upload.
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The speed of a website is important to most users especially when they are looking for specific information. They won’t wait around long for your website to load for that information and will try find it somewhere else. One way to motivate the user to stay is to get some content showing that they can consume as soon as possible to give incentive that the rest will be arriving shortly. The common blockers that cause the long wait from a blank page to all of a sudden everything shows are CSS and JavaScript files.
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I’ve noticed that in Google Chrome and FireFox console the font file resources .woff throws a 404 when using @font-face CSS feature.
You will need to add a configuration to allow IIS to serve the font. In your web.config you can add the follow lines in the system.webServer block:
<system.webserver>
<staticcontent>
<mimemap fileextension=".woff" mimetype="application/x-font-woff">
</mimemap></staticcontent>
</system.webserver>By applying this mimeType: application/x-font-woff for .woff will should fix this issue in Chrome and Firefox. This is the mimeType they request and IIS can’t work out which file type is should serve until it registered in the web.config or IIS.
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Building on what Phil Haack wrote a while ago to test your mvc routing. It is important to test your routing as it controls exactly where the users will go when they make a request. Especially if you have to maintain a complex CMS framework.
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How do you go about choosing whether to develop a mobile site or responsive website? I would say its depends on what you are trying to achieve and with all the hype over responsive design you might sway in favour of that. In this post I discuss some benefits and negatives about both options which hopefully will help you come to a better decision.
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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.