Jeff Atwood today announced what he has been working on for the past year after leaving Stack Exchange. A new OSS project called Discourse! I was impressed by the initial announcement and launch to the public because everything was well documented on their site and as well as the GitHub repository. You hardly see an OSS project so well organized at initial launch! Continue reading
MVC4 and Twitter Bootstrap .less Source
Recently in a post on Bundling and Minification in MVC4 by Rick Anderson, Rick explains how to use the new ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework features (note: this feature can be used with a Web Pages Project, MVC4 Project or Web Forms Project). There have always been ways to minify your Css and JavaScript for optimizing ASP.net sites in the past but developers are lazy and sometimes extra steps need to be automated or easier to implement. Continue reading
Visual Studio Achievements Widget for BlogEngine
If you code in Visual Studio, you've probably heard of Channel 9's Visual Studio plugin that allows developers to earn achievements based on certain criteria met while programming in a visual studio solution.The Visual Studio Achievements plug-in analyzes a background thread each time code is compiled, as well as listens for particular events and actions from Visual Studio. Continue reading
JQ Mobile Theme for Blogengine.net
I created a mobile theme for Blogengine.net that uses JQuery Mobile. JQ Mobile overrides a lot of the default html and pages that normal Blogengine themes use and turns a Blogengine.net site into a mobile app. Continue reading
Google Accounts Merge - @gtempaccount.com?
I have been using Google Apps Standard(Free) for my domain michaeljbaird.com for over 3 years to take advantage of their email feature. Luckily I've been grandfathered in before Google decided to reduce Google Apps (free) to only 10 users, I used the same email address login for my personal account using Google Products and Google Apps. Continue reading