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Setting up a VMware Esxi 6.0 Virtual Server on OVH Hosting
In this blog post we try to highlight some of the challenges and advantages that we faced while working with OVH. It took us several hours trying to figure out different parts of the service and get it functional. There have been several forum posts by others who have given important information to help us configure our servers correctly. In this blog post we are trying to string together our journey to make it easier for others. We specialize in bespoke software development and are not trained IT admins, but we definitely like to dabble into IT as far as we can. We are sure someone with a strong IT experience in virtualization might know these issues up front. But this is our layman’s view of this process.
Continue readingUnderstanding Visual Studio 2015 ASP.NET Web Project Changes
Microsoft has recently released Visual Studio 2015 Preview for evaluation. Along with Visual Studio Microsoft has announced that it will open source complete ASP.NET stack and make it hostable on Linux as well as Mac. Microsoft has changed their web project significantly to make it work across open source platforms. Visual Studio 2015 preview brings a lot of enhancements in the editor as well as one of the significant components that ship with it is ASP.NET v5 and total change in project structure of web applications. In an effort to embrace open source they have made a lot of changes to to the project templates to utilize a whole bag of popular open source technologies like NPM, Grunt and Bower. Enabling the use of popular open source package managers saves Microsoft from duplicating and maintaining the rapid speed of changes and new developments that are happening on the web. For example instead of building their open Less to CSS compiler and keeping it updated, now they enable developers to use popular open source versions of the same.
Continue readingUse jQuery Lazy Load with Knockout binding
This tutorial explains how to use jQuery lazy loading technique with Knockout binding.
Continue readingSetup Facebook Login and Camera for Android App using PhoneGap 3.4
This tutorial explains the manual steps to integrate Facebook Login and add Camera plugin for Android application which is created using PhoneGap 3.4. For Facebook plugin configuration and samples, refer phonegap-facebook-plugin available on GitHub.
Continue readingAdd Images along with Text using Document Types and Parital View in Umbraco 7
While creating an Umbraco site, I came across the need for displaying images along with additional text information which can be setup and managed using Umbraco CMS administration tool. In this blog post, I will explain how to create Document Types and Partial View for a Umbraco 7 website using MVC to display the details.
Continue readingSetup Phonegap 3.4 on Windows 8 64-bit to create Android applications
This tutorial explains how to setup Phonegap 3.4 on a Windows 8 64-bit machine and use it for Android application development.
Continue readingSetup Phonegap 3.3.0 on OS X Mavericks 10.9 to compile and run apps for iOS and Android
This tutorial explains how to set up Phonegap 3.3.0 on OS X Mavericks 10.9 to compile and run apps for iOS and Android. One of the main reasons for using PhoneGap on OS X platform was to make sure that we can create test builds for iOS and Android devices.
Continue readingAdding Bootstrap based Responsive Carousel to Umbraco 7
Image Sliders and Carousels are very popular elements for building any kind of modern websites. There are several JQuery based scripts available which provide a wide variety of features for building the carousel element. In this blog post I’ll illustrate how easy it is to implement bootstrap based carousel for your website. This blog post with build on my previous blog post Create a Responsive, Fluid HTML5/CSS3 based website on Umbraco 7 using Bootstrap 3.0 Framework where I have integrated bootstrap 3.0.1 with Umbraco 7. This example can be extended to use your own JQuery based slider script.
Continue readingCreate a Responsive, Fluid HTML5/CSS3 based website on Umbraco 7 using Bootstrap 3.0 Framework
Building responsive, fluid HTML5/CSS3 based websites are a rage these days delivering the best ROI for clients investing in building new web sites. Building a single website which adapts itself depending on the device screen size gives end users richer experiences. There are several ways of building responsive websites, one of the popular ways to to use an existing framework like Bootstrap which provide base scaffolding to quickly build responsive websites. In this blog post I am going to focus on how to integrate Bootstrap v3.0.X with Umbraco 7 to build a HTML5/CSS3 based fluid responsive website. The goal is to build a simple single page responsive web page similar to the Jumbotron bootstrap sample and focus on the integration part so that you can build more complex layouts as required. I plan to build upon this sample in future blog posts.
Continue readingSetting up Umbraco 7 in Visual Studio 2013 for MVC 4 development
Umbraco 7 has been released, with a refreshed administrative interface making it one of the top CMS in the market. Our earlier blog post on Setting up Umbraco 6 in Visual Studio 2012 for MVC development was found useful by many readers so its time to write and updated blog post with Umbraco 7. The Umbraco team have fully embraced ASP.NET 4.5 as well as MVC for Umbraco 7, making it far more easier for us to build MVC based web sites. In this blog post we will focus on using Visual Studio 2013 and creating a fresh Umbraco 7 website which can be built upon going further.
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