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Release of Speaking Email CarPlay

We've been working away on a major new app, the first ever email app for Apple CarPlay. We're excited to have it (almost) ready to launch...

Call multiple ajax calls in sequence, rather than all at the same time

SMS and Text Messages from Email

Here is a list of email to sms/txt/text message providers in NZ: http://www.net24.co.nz/isms.phphttp://www.tnz.co.nz/http://www.txtstream.co.nz/http://www.mbox.co.nz/http://www.bulletinwireless.com/

Regex visualiser

regex is hard to read

How to test to see if an smtp mail server is available using telnet

Tools to check for email marked as Spam

How to set up SignalR in MVC3, asp.net 4.6, in VS2013

Kill all chromes

Web scraping with html agility pack

Make Select2 Dropbox to work like an autocomplete

Load data based on what you type instead of loading all of it together

Turn off Windows updates - or set to Manual

XWord

Missile JS example

Compare two lists for 'same' content

Simple one page spider

How to create a unique reference number

Ascii art - excel to source code table

If you want to paste an example from excel into your source code - use this

How to edit your hosts file easily

Paste multiple lines with crlf into a single cell, and prevent enter in child forms

Smartermail IP whitelisting

Google Analytics for Email Tracking

javascript animation

How to set up Android phone for debugging

jDrop file uploader

jDrop is a jQuery extension for uploading files. It is fully customizable and can be configured to work with any web site. It features Progress Bar and Drag & Drop if the browser supports them. It works by extending an existing control, and specifying user elements. It will detect if your browser and is compatible with HTML5, it falls back to implementing an iFrame for older browsers, so that there are no post backs required. It supports FireFox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer 6 +.

ABC PDF Versions Mismatch - update!

Azure - Creating External Tables

Have troubles creating external tables? Check out these tips...

Given a chunk of text, assign that text a constant colour

Lawson M3 / Infor web service calls

Lawson M3 / Infor web service calls

Image drawing example

How to draw a custom image using c# code

How to write an mvc view to a string

useful when returning ajax

Track down mail deliverability issues

How to track down mail deliverability issues using google tools

HTML fragments in view page - can be called over and over - eg in a loop

When you are writing a report, sometimes you have a chunk of html that you need to call over and over - like subtotal. You can use an Action and an anoymous 'function' full of html to do this. - like a renderaction and an ascx, but inline on the page. This reduces files in the project, and you dont need an actionresult method in the controller.

Share your desktop with clients

When you need to have a desktop meeting to show technical detail to clients use www.teamviewer.com

Google Maps

Review of jQuery plugins for Google APIs - including maps, charts, spell check: http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/03/8-jquery-plugins-that-utilize-google-apis/ Google map jQuery plugin (mo0re advanced - multiple maps on one page) http://code.google.com/p/jmaps/ Code samples & guides MarkerCl...

Printing in IE - why doesnt it have print preview like Chrome does!

How to fix an IE print issue

C# timer, how to add duration to a page

page / function timer code

Sample email template code

How to send email from c# using a textblock template

Upgrade Project MVC 2 to MVC 4

Upgrading 1) Install Visual Studio 2012 2) Project is up-to-date in svn (commit or update project) 3) Open project .sln in Visual Studio 2010 4) Upgrade references a) Delete system.web.mvc from Site, SavvyMVC and SavvyCore (savvycore project might not have this reference) b) Add back in the sys...

Web fonts - usage

Web fonts are great, but they do require some searching, fiddling around, and are not going to render perfectly in every browser and OS.

Mobile Websites

Cubiq.org Matteo Spinelli has got lots of mobile optimised javascript demos and libraries. http://cubiq.org/category/projects SwipeView - Provides swipe enabled slideshow with hardware accelerated animation iScroll - Proper scrolling DIVs on mobile Add to Home Screen Slide in Menu - a really nice ...

AHK Scripts

AHK is a cool macro thing

JS Date calcs

Mobile frameworks

Beweb Workflow

Workflow setup: OK, so forget this entirely... not sure if it is going anywhere..... 1. In Chrome go to chrome://flags 2. Find and enable Enable Developer Tools experiments 3. Restart chrome 4. Open devtools (F12) then open Options (shortcut is question mark) 5. You should now see a new section "...

load test

Load Testing with WCAT Download and install WCAT 6.3 x64 from here http://www.iis.net/community/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1467 Install file by default is c:\Program Files\wcat Open up Fiddler Press F12 to start capturing (if it's not automatically already doing it) browse to the webs...

Podcasts related to web design and development, ASPNET, jQuery, technology trends

Every month I am going to highlight us a new podcast to listen to. The idea is everyone could try out listening to a couple of episodes to see if you like it and want to subscribe. Beweb Podcasts Library! I have now shared my iTunes podcast library, so don't need to subscribe and download all the...

Visual Studio 2008

Shortcuts (if you don't have resharper) http://www.dev102.com/2008/04/17/10-visual-studio-shortcuts-you-must-know/ T4 Templates & Code Generationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdevtools/archive/2009/01/29/t4-templates-a-quick-start-guide-for-asp-net-mvc-developers.aspxhttp://www.hanselman.com/blo...

Fiddler

How to set up Fiddler for tracking web service calls and visual studio cassini web server http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/596348.aspx