My Software Cookbook

Since some time I’ve been planning to move my blog away from blogspot to Github Pages. I could have done it the traditional way and uploaded html files, but Github Pages support blogging with Jekyll using beautifull markdown (sic) so that’s what I wanted to try out. [Read More]

An anonymous poster on my fifth post about Single Page Applications (SPA) asked if it was possible to deploy SPAs on Windows Azure. As it turns out the Windows Azure Web Site offering makes this very easy to do if you build your SPA as outlined in that post. [Read More]

This blogpost is part of a series about building Single Page Applications using ASP.NET MVC 4. Parts 1 through 4 use ASP.NET MVC4 beta but this post will focus on building SPA after upgrading to ASP.NET MVC 4 RC [Read More]

This blogpost is part of a series about building Single Page Applications using ASP.NET MVC 4 beta. When writing this post I assumed you have read the previous ones. The code snippets are just the incremental changes that are needed since the third. post I'd advise to just download the... [Read More]

While attending a Webcamp around HTML 5, the instructor pointed out the "Pin to Taskbar" feature that is available as from Internet Explorer 9. Pinning a site to the taskbar makes your website behave more like a desktop application, allowing users to select from fixed tasks and/or a dynamic jumplist,... [Read More]