In the last decade, Google has given us a lot of amazing free services, and web developers haven’t been left out of the party. For a while now, Google has been hosting popular JavaScript libraries on their CDN (content delivery network) and letting any website make use of them for free. On face, you might […]
View PostHow to Format a DateTime in C# / ASP.NET
When I was a new developer making websites in .NET, I ended up doing some pretty screwy things to make date’s and time’s look how I wanted to. I would do things like: DateTime thisDate = DateTime.Now; string AMPM = String.Empty; if(thisDate.Hour>=12) {AMPM = “PM”;} else {AMPM = “AM”;} String FormattedDate = (thisDate.Hour%12).ToString() + “:” […]
View Post360 WebCMS Feature Look: Multisite Management
I’ve spent the better part of the last 3 months developing the new version of our company’s content management system that’s called “360 WebCMS”. It’s a product that Factor 360 has and is used to develop all of our client websites. One of the cool features that I built into it was multi-site management. Essentially, […]
View Post 360 WebCMSMake Custom URLs in ASP.NET with the Global.asax File
If you’re looking to do URL rewriting for a content management system or another .NET based website, there are a number of ways to accomplish the task. There’s a very mature free product called URL Rewriter.NET which gets the job done, and Microsoft has made their own URL Routing solution which was originally developed for […]
View PostWrite Your Own Database Access Class in C#
If you use C# or VB.NET through the ASP.NET stack (or just as a desktop application) to connect to a SQL database, you’ll have a few options. There’s the new entity data model from Microsoft, there’s also last year’s notion of LINQ. They both do a reasonably good job, but are sometimes on the over-kill […]
View Post C#, DatabaseHow to Safely Display Your Email Address Online Without Getting Spammed
If you have a website or blog, one of your motivating factors is that you’d like to promote yourself, your services or your ideas. Typically most bloggers don’t want to be writing anonymously and would like to provider their readership an easy way to contact them. Unfortunately, it’s a really bad idea to let your […]
View PostBuilding a Simple Image Rotator with JQuery
I was recently working on a new website for an adult fellowship group at my church and one of the tasks I had was to create an image rotator that had various bible verses on it that would transition every few seconds. Since the site was Joomla-based, I initially searched for a free plugin that […]
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