Topic: 'Tutorials'

One of the few ways of increasing performance of your website is compressing files such as style sheets and JavaScript files.  Doing this manually would be a little painful, but thankfully there are ways to do this automatically. If you are using Visual Studio, this is fairly simple. First thing you would need to do is download the Yahoo.Yui.Compressor from CodePlex.  Once that is done, extract it into a folder of your choice and make sure the following are ...

I have always battled with a perfect way of handling auto-grow or expanding text-areas.  Between not behaving the same in all browsers to not working correctly in a page with AJAX, there always seemed to be something wrong with other solutions. An expanding text area is a multi-line text input field that expands in height to fit its contents. Commonly found in both desktop and mobile applications, such as the SMS composition field on the iPhone, it’s a good choice when you ...

Twitter integration in the APM Content Management System was something I never thought of doing until now.   Probably due to the fact that I just started using Twitter again, and I did not want to have to manually tweet about the latest blog post.  So with that, I set out to build this functionality into the CMS. Thankfully, there is already a .NET library that takes care of most of the work - Twitterizer. Setting up your .NET website to interact with Twitter is fairly simple, ...