November 12, 2011
Blog ArchivesSolving the Shakespeare Million Monkeys Problem in Real-time with Parallelism and SignalR
A little over 18 months ago I was talking to Stephen Toub (he of the Parallel Computing fame ) about parallelism and the kinds of problems it could solve. I said, naively, "could we solve the million monkey's problem ?" He said, "the…
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JavaScript Reference group Dedicated Worker
Travis Leithead showed a video "Building responsive apps and sites with HTML5 web workers" in BUILD. When editing "Dedicated worker" JavaScript file in Visual Studio 11 Developer's Preview, we need to add the following line in t…
New JavaScript editing features for Web development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview has the JavaScript design time engine rewritten, sharing base with IE's JavaScript engine. It has faster performance and better memory footprint. The list below shows some new feature and changes comparing with Vi…
Asynchronous scalable web applications with real-time persistent long-running connections with SignalR
I've been spending some time exploring asynchrony and scale recently. You may have seen my post about my explorations with node.js and iisnode running node on Windows . Every application has different requirements such that rules to "make it s…
Learning about Progressive Enhancement – Supporting Mobile Browsers with CSS3 Media Queries
I blogged about how happy I've been working with designer Jeremy Kratz on my recent site redesign . We've been meeting lately about small improvements and tweaks. One of the core goals was to support many screen sizes from 30" down to a sm…
Play Sound in HTML5 and cross browser support with backward compatability.
In the last post in this series [ read here ] I added the clock timing logic to the HTML workout timer. The next feature to add is round and interval audio. I want to ring a bell at the beginning and the end of each round, a warning before a change in …
ASP.NET Password Strength Indicator with jQuery Plugin.
Password strength is a key factor in account security for weeb applications. As developers we all have a basic understanding of what a secure password is but the averge consumer of internet applications doesn’t so adding a visual indicator when y…
Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
The Web Platform and Tools team is very pleased to announce the first Web Standards Update for Visual Studio SP1 . It updates the HTML5 intellisense and validation to reflect the latest W3C specifications and fixes some bugs bugs in the current …
Sample Code and Slides from DevConnection Germany
Thank you everyone who came to my three talks this week at DevConnections Germany! I really enjoyed my time in Karlsruhe. Here are the slides and sample code for the three talks: jQuery Templates In this talk, I discuss how you can take advantage of jQ…
Sample Code and Slides from DevConnection Germany
Thank you everyone who came to my three talks this week at DevConnections Germany! I really enjoyed my time in Karlsruhe. Here are the slides and sample code for the three talks: jQuery Templates In this talk, I discuss how you can take advantage of jQ…
