Tech Days Links 09 March 2013 Guus-Beltman Last 2 days I attended the Microsoft Tech Days in the Hague. It was fun and inspiring to see all those technical presentations. I am thinking about to write a review of both days. For now I only would like to share some related links to presentation, code and blogs. Maurice Beijer about Modern Web Development - www.slideshare.net/mauricedb/modern-web-development-17006074 Maurice Beijer example code of his REST session - https://github.com/mauricedb/TechDaysNL.2013.ExcellentREST Ben... [More]
Working with the LinkedIn Developer API 02 February 2013 Guus-Beltman Yesterday for the first time I worked with the LinkedIn Developer API en the OAuth protocol. I needed to retrieve a group discussion to display as a Twitter-like widget on a site. Unlike twitter there is no simple feed that you can use, LinkedIn requires an authenticated user for accessing their data. The good news is, I got it working: Sites that helped me with the endeavor: Great straight forward article about LinkedIn API and OAuth: http://scatteredcode.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/dotne... [More]
5 online image enhance websites 24 January 2013 Guus-Beltman Got tired of Windows paint? And you don’t want to pay the full license fee for Adobe Photoshop? Than try these 5 online tools: http://befunky.com – Add special effects to your photos, like aging or make it look like a painting. http://beta.picartia.com – Create a mosaic picture. http://magmypic.com – Surprise your (girl)friend with a special magazine image with his/her picture on the cover! http://www.loonapix.com – Great wallpaper functions and animated gif possibilities. ht... [More]
Great image resizing module for asp.net 23 January 2013 Guus-Beltman Just found a great ASP.NET module for resizing, crop, rotate and watermarking images. You can find it on imageresizing.net. What’s so great about it is it’s simplicity, after installing, you can resizing images by url: image.jpg?width=300 It’s support a lot of image formats and can also re-encode images. For performance it uses disk cache to store the generated images. Please check it out on imageresizing.net.
Internet 2012 in numbers 21 January 2013 Guus-Beltman Some interesting charts about internet in 2012. These and more information can be viewed at Royal Pingdom.
Notepad++: Use regular expressions to clean text with ease 12 December 2012 Guus-Beltman Today I need to write some CMS documentation for an SDL Tridion implementation. As I am a programmer, I should be lazy and use the easiest method to get things done. Tridion uses Xml Schema’s to describe the content data and I need to describe the field names. The XML is like this: <tcm:Label ElementName="main_title" Metadata="false">Title</tcm:Label> <tcm:Label ElementName="start_intro_title" Metadata="false">Start intro title</tc... [More]
Sometimes html comments make you wonder.. 05 December 2012 Guus-Beltman So the other div elements are optional and can be removed safely?
Sending mail with ASP.NET and Gmail 24 November 2012 Guus-Beltman After a server upgrade I had to setup my mail again. It seems that IIS7 has lost it’s core mail functionality, so I tried to use the SMTP service from Gmail for sending my e-mail. First thing I did is to setup a simple test page, that I would like to share with you. Front The page contains a simple web form for inserting some test data and is looking like this: The markup code <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="g... [More]