By Ian Haynes Having been working on mobile-first designs recently it occurred to me briefly that if I didn’t use respond.js, browsers not supporting media queries would see the mobile view. Looking for something else on the net I then found that designer Joni Korpi had taken this idea and used...

These 9 tutorials cover the basics of building an ASP.NET MVC Web application using Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web (it’s free). Here's what you'll learn: How to create a new ASP.NET MVC project. How to create ASP.NET MVC controllers and views. How to create a new...

The W3C co-chair got up on his soap box last week and declared that WebKits power is causing an Open Web crisis: W3C co-chair: Apple, Google power causing Open Web crisis Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) enables you to do AJAX requests across different domains, over on the IE blog they have a nice...

As part of the Britain Works program, Microsoft’s DPE and Citizenship teams have been working with training company QA and e-skills UK to develop a year-long Modern Apprenticeship in Software Development . According to the Department for Business Innovation and Skills , small and medium-sized...

by Giorgio Sardo Cut the Rope is an immediate favourite for anyone who plays it. It’s as fun as it is adorable. So we had an idea: let’s make this great game available to an even bigger audience by offering it on the web using the power of HTML5. To do this, Microsoft’s Internet...

Cut the Rope , the game originally built for iPhone and Android by ZeptoLab has been ported to HTML5 by PixelLabs, ZentoLab and the Internet Explorer team. To get the full story on how it was created, including an explanation of the mind-set switch required to move from Objective-C to JavaScript, take...

by Rik Hepworth Far too often at the first customer meeting about a new SharePoint-delivered website I get handed a piece of paper like the one below. ‘We’ve planned the site’ says the cheery project owner. In an effort to help you avoid the potholes of improper planning here are...

... or five reasons why you should use it alongside Visual Studio by Ian Haynes If you’re working on a web site or application in Visual Studio you may well be doing the design and front-end development there too. After all the web design surface is a version of Expression Web, isn’t...

W3C , the web standards organisation, held its first developer conference in November. The website for the conference practices what it preaches. It uses some of the latest features, including: HTML semantic elements andclass-based metadata for dates and the conference location. Accessibility...

by Chris Eargle The ninjas of legend evoke images of a mysterious figure in black, able to perform super human feats and defeat enemies with cunning tactics. Nowadays, the term is applied to those that have mastered a skill to such an extent they are considered more than mere mortals. Telerik JustCode...

Thank you for attending the recent Tech.Days Online Conference for Windows Azure, Windows Phone and Internet Explorer. If you have missed the live online conference, you can now view the recordings by clicking on one of the links below. Get up to Speed with Windows Azure Click here to see the live...

We’re pleased to announce that registration is now open for TechDays UK 2011, c overing topics including cloud, the web and Windows Phone. Hear from our customers and partners as well as seeing in-depth technical sessions from the Microsoft experts. View the agenda and register here . Follow...