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Channel: Web Development (page 7)
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Components, Patterns and Frameworks! Oh My!
Somewhere, right now, there's a team creating a new design with some amazing, never-before-seen functionality. And to take advantage of that awesome, groundbreaking functionality work, their users will need to login. Login functionality isn't new. It's not awesome. It's not very challenging to develop.
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ASP.NET MVC Not In Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
How many of you rushed to download Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 (news, site) when it was released last week? A lot, exactly. But how many of you came away just a little disappointed to find out that ASP.NET MVC (news, site ) is
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W3C CSS 2.1 Spec Gets One Step Closer to Release
The W3C Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has released the latest version of the Candidate Recommendation CSS Specification -- CSS 2.1. The newest version corrects some errors in the previous version and adds some features that have been highly requested.
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MS Web Platform Installer Hits 1.5 Million Product Downloads
Is it a sign of the times? People want an easy way to install applications on their PCs. Microsoft's Web Platform Installer (news, site) is certainly looking like just the ticket. Released to the public in January of this year, Microsoft has announced that the Web
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SharePoint 2010: Preparing Your Infrastructure
It's getting closer. SharePoint 2010 that is. And now that the dates are all out in the open, Microsoft is offering us information to get our infrastructure ready. A new post has just come out on the Microsoft SharePoint Team blog outlining the Preliminary System Requirements for SharePoint 2010.
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Create Custom, Personalized Navigation for SharePoint Services Sites
There are any number of SharePoint add-ons and web parts available today. We can't cover them all. But sometimes one crosses our path that we find interesting enough to pass on. That's how it was Friday when we told you about SharePoint Solutions's new Data Zoom Web Part. And
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Create Dynamic Data-Driven Content for SharePoint with Free Tool
Looking for an easy way to create dynamic, data-driven content in SharePoint? SharePoint Solutions (news, site) is offering a new free tool to help you out: SharePoint Data Zoom Web Part. Dynamic Content in SharePoint There are other ways to get dynamic content into your SharePoint site,
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Export Your Google Analytics Data with New API
Google Analytics is a very popular website analytics tool. This is partly because it's free, but also because it offers a lot of useful analytics on what's happening with your website. But people have been asking for just a little bit more from Google. Now they have delivered.
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Deploying Drupal Just Got Easier
Those Drupal (news, link) administrators who need to stage or otherwise copy Drupal configurations from one server to another should run out and give the Drupal Deploy module a try. Created originally by Greg Dunlap at Palantir.
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Semantic Web Language Continues to Evolve with OWL 2
The World Wide Web Consortium's OWL (Web Ontology Language) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of the "OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview." Go ahead. Grab a dictionary. We'll wait.
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Microsoft's Quest for Interoperability and Open Standards
When an open source advocate, open standards advocate, or, well, pretty much anyone that competes with Microsoft (news, site ) sees an extended hand from the software giant toward better interoperability, they tend to look and see if the other hand's holding a spiked club.
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Harnessing the Power of Annotations -- An Interview with Dan Brown
As designers, we rely on communicating detail to our teammates and collaborators. Sometimes a picture is a thousand words, but often, we need more words and explanation to make those diagrams effective. We had a chance to sit down with Dan Brown, the co-Founder and co-Principal of EightShapes,
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Taking a Closer Look at Microsoft's Ms-PL Open Source License
The rumors are true. Microsoft (news, site) has an official open source license that was approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) -- the Ms-PL, or Microsoft Public License. Since they have licensed their latest offering ASP.NET MVC 1.0 under the Ms-PL, we thought we would
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Microsoft Open Sources .NET MVC Framework
Further evidence of Microsoft's growing commitment towards interoperability and open source -- the ASP.NET MVC source code has been released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). ASP.NET MVC 1.0 was officially released at MIX09 a couple of weeks ago. It provided developers with an alternative to developing ASP.NET applications using
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