April 2010 - Craig Shoemaker

CSS Specificity is the litmus test used to decide which of the ‘cascading’ styles in CSS will ultimately take precedence when the page is rendered in the browser. This short video demonstrates a quick way to quantify CSS specificity making...

Now that you’ve read that our latest releases of the NetAdvantage toolset support Visual Studio 2010 , perhaps you’re ready to make the jump to the updated IDE. There are some striking new features available in Visual Studio and I found some...

Often when I am writing for the web, I need to encode HTML snippets for display in the browser. When I need something converted fast, I turn to the Opinionated Geek’s HTML Encoder tool. Tip: I even have a SlickRun shortcut pointing to the encoder...

Have you ever been working on some XAML and wanted to make a gradient, but didn’t want to use Blend for one reason or another? Well, Mark Betz features an Online Gradient Maker on his website, and it makes creating gradients a snap!

Have you grown tired of the default theme in Visual Studio? Well the Visual Studio Theme Generator is a handy tool that makes it easy to generate a new theme for Visual Studio. Just use the color picker to customize the colors of your theme and click...

My good friend Dave Ward recently re-published a printed version of his article 5 Steps Toward jQuery Mastery . In this article Dave explains how the jQuery Sizzle engine evaluates selectors from right-to-left and how this nuance affects how you write...

Josh Blake of Infostrat joins Pixel8 to discuss NUI development in .NET. Josh is the author of the upcoming book Multitouch on Windows from Manning . Reaching far beyond theory and the niche market of Microsoft Surface, NUI development is now possible...