Its a pleasure to introduce my first initiative, http://ownabook.org/, which is live now and is in beta. Go get in the queue to grab your hardcopy of your favorite book or audio as applicable and when published.There is no catch. This site is being built using ASP.NET MVC 3, jQuery and other good stuff. I will open the source once the beta period is ......

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This is my first blog post on my home domain http://rajeshpillai.tekacad... and in this series of posts I will explore various facets of JavaScript language that will help us become better programmers. The idea is tear apart the language and understand how to use the features and build libraries like jquery, knockoutjs, backbonejs.The idea is not ......

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This is my first post in this new year and was thinking about a topic to write on. Lately I have been working on varied things that flexes the brain muscles and things which I haven't done before. So a lot of learning and some unlearning this new year. One of the big issue which most people faces is learning to learn!.So, today I will share my experience ......

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For more info refer the below post

 

http://blog.jquery.com/2011/05/12/jquery-1-6-1-released/

 

Some great improvements and fixes.

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Grab it from here http://www.microsoft.com/do... There's also an ".iso" available which you can find in the above article ......

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WCF - Automatically create ServiceHost for multiple services Welcome back readers! This blog post is about a small tip that may make working with WCF servicehost a bit easier, if you have lots of services and you need to quickly host them for testing. Recently I was encountered a situation where we were faced to create multiple service host quickly ......

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Another cool vector drawing JavaScript Library. Introducing Raphelhttp://raphaeljs.com/. Seems promising (Added to my R&D todo list :)) ......

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jQuery fundametal online book  is available at http://www.rebeccamurphey.com/jqfundamentals/book/release/html/

Enjoy :)

 

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Many times in the Career advice section at http://www.dotnetfunda.com/... we are asked this question What are the essential skills for a web developer? Rather than posting/reposting time and again, thought of writing a post about it. This post details what according to me and some of the well established people I know think about essential skills ......

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What did you learn today? Everyday teaches you something, some lesson or the other. Some day you learn a new language, a new skill or a new hobby or visit some new place, learn music, have a different dining experience, learn swimming, make some good friends, get in touch with some old friend etc. etc…. Each of these things teaches you something… So, ......

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Personal Development : Time, Planning, Repairs & Maintenance These are just my thoughts, but some you may find something interesting in it. Please think over it. We may know many things, but still we always keeps procrastinating it. I have written this as I have heard many people coming back and saying they don’t have time to do things they like. ......

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Welcome Readers!, I am starting out a new series on ASP.NET MVC skill building which will be posted over the next couple of weeks. Let me know your thoughts on the content, which I have planned and a couple of them has been taken from ASP.NET MVC2 Cookbook. (NOTE: Only the heading has been taken, the content will be not :)). Do let me know what you ......

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I usually love doing TDD and am moving towards understanding BDD (Behaviour Driven Development). My learnings are documented in the form of an article at CodeProject. The URL is http://www.codeproject.com/... I will keep this updated as and when I learn a couple of more things. Hope you like it. Cheers ......

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Its been long due I was planning to write an article on creating some useful ASP.NET MVC application. I have code named it "DailyJournal". Its a simple application which allows creation of multiple activities and assign tasks to these activities. Its' kind of "Yet another Task/Todo application". The credentials which you can use with the attached demo ......

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Going through a VS 2010 IDE Features. We will explore each feature in subsequent posts. The post are documented as being reviewed by me. Breakpoint Labeling Breakpoint Searching Breakpoint Import/Export Dynamic Data Tooling WPF Tree Visualizer Call Hierarchy Improved WPF Tooling Historical Debugging Mini-Dump Debugging Quick Search Better Multi-Monitor ......

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