Joe's Happy Life

Webform and MVC together

rocker8942 — Sat, 19 May 2012 04:16:49 +0000

http://media.wiley.com/assets/1539/15/professionalaspnet35mvc_chapter13.pdf

http://aspnetmvcbook.s3.amazonaws.com/aspnetmvc-nerdinner_v1.pdf

Installation of Responsive Design Template

rocker8942 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:27:21 +0000

One of the current needs of web design is making it suitable from PC to mobile device. Thus comes the responsive web design, one of which, Twenty Eleven, for WP was chosen by me to install for my blog.
And it’s free.

What has happen after the installation is as follows;

It’s just normal when it just installed.

When the screen size is shrunken, the main image is shrunken accordingly and right hand side column is disappeared and placed to the bottom of the blog.

When the screen size get even smaller, text font get smaller accordingly. This automatic way of transformation of layout looks really good for mobile device like ipad, iphone and other tables. Given growing volume of mobile traffic, responsive design is amazing for web site owner as individual or corporate.

This is the same page on iphone. However, this is not the responsive transformation of the same template, but iphone specific plug-in added in my blog, which will replace the template for desktop screen when user access my blog using hand held device like iphone.

As a bonus, this is the mobile traffic to my blog in last month, which is definitely growing. Another amazing thing is the total number of visitors to my blog through mobile device is 29% of total number of visitors.

This is the right time to invest in to meet the need of mobile visitors to any web site.

Unit Test Getting Started

rocker8942 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:55:37 +0000

Which is the best one?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/393184/which-unit-test-framework-and-how-to-get-started-for-asp-net-mvc

Many recommend xUnit, but NUnit and MSTest is easy to start. So, I’ll start with NUnit, cause MSTest doesn’t support WVD 2010 express.

How to setup NUnit at VWM 2010 express Or Visual Studio C# express

http://www.dijksterhuis.org/setting-up-nunit-for-c-unit-testing-with-visual-studio-c-express-2008/

BTW, Good news, WVD 2011 beta has MS unit test out of the box. Yeah~ I’ll move to ver. 2011 from today.

Entity Framework vs NHibernate

rocker8942 — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:42:52 +0000

NHibernate vs EntityFramework – Experience From the Real World

This is a really great article, unbiased well developed review between EF4 & NHibernate.

NHibernate and Entity Framework essentials using a Model First approach

This is brief sample of implementation with comparison

BTW, the conclusion is

If no special reason, stick to ADO.Net with DataSet
If use only MS DB(MSSQL) and the project is relatively simple, EF can be an easy choice.
If the project is complex & teams are ready for steep learning curve, Fluent NHibernate is a king.

Advanced tip for the use of Google Analytics

rocker8942 — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 05:32:37 +0000

Google Analytics is so great just as it is out of the box. But, with a little more advanced tips, it can be much more useful beating competitors.

11 Google Analytics Tricks to Use for Your Website

Subversion

rocker8942 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:43:22 +0000

Subversion Clients

As a developer to use/access Subversion, you have to use subversion client as follows.

for Windows User

Simple One : Tortoise SVN
Plug-in for Visual Studio : ankhsvn

for Mac User

Simple One : svnX 1.3.2
Plug-in for Eclipse : subclipse 1.6
(be careful to choose right version. v1.6 is good for now)

Subversion is all same. But, the client has slightly different function and workflow so it’s good to be careful to use several client at the same time. Misuse of subversion can be a horror movie.

How to install Subversion at OSX

I recently install SVN 1.6.17 using Collalab install program.

Easiest way for individual developer using standalone machine

When using svn with eclipse, be careful to choose subclipse version. Because lastest version, 1.8 requires SVN 1.7 which is rare item. So, for the moment, subclipse 1.6 is just fine for general purpose, which works fine with SVN 1.6.

I spent several days for this version dismatch issues. Which is frankly crazy, new version doesn’t support earlier version? Have to be careful, otherwise you will waste lots of time just for nothing.

BTW, mac osx comes with Subversion out of the box, which is not a latest version though.

Easy Deploy with SVN

http://svndeploy.codeplex.com/

APS.NET how to trigger Update Panel

rocker8942 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:42:39 +0000

Ajax.Net Update panel, different ways of triggering udates

Joomla upgrade from version 1.5 to 1.6 or later

rocker8942 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:49:06 +0000

For template upgrade Joomla Document: Upgrading a Joomla 1.5 template to Joomla 1.6

For DB changes between 1.5 and 1.6(1.7): database upgrades in joomla 1.6

Adapting a Joomla 1.5 extension to Joomla 1.6

ASP.net : How to Publish

rocker8942 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:02:37 +0000

How to publish ASP.Net application to GoDaddy windows web hosing server? There is step by a step guide at the blog of Kenan Bek

How to publish SQL DB

In case of GoDaddy

http://www.salmontraining.com/SqlExpressZone/articles/publish_sql_server_godaddy_shared_hosting.html

In general deployment

http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials/deployment/deploying-a-database-cs

http://kingdango.com/blog/2011/12/a-simple-solution-for-deploying-code-first-model/

Best Tools for Small Business and Non Profits

rocker8942 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:42:17 +0000

What product to choose as a startup or non-profits with limited resource? I found a great article from bestvendor.

In summary, dream package is a group of

Google Apps (Email)
QuickBooks (Accounting)
Google Analytics (Web Analytics)
SalesForce (CRM)
Adobe CS5 (Website Design)
DropBox (Storage/Backup/Virtualisation) *
PayPal (Payment Processting)

In Productivity,

BaseCamp (Project Management) / Trello *
EverNote (Note Taking)
Google Docs (Collaboration/Wiki) *
Google Voice & Ring Central (Phone System)

In Development,

Jira & BugZilla(Bug Tracking) *
MySQL (Database)
Eclipse & Visual Studio (IDE)
Rails & .Net (Framework) *
Textmate (Text Editor) *
RSPEC & JUnit & Selenium (Testing Framework) *
GIT & SVN (Version Control) *

In Web Operations,

Amazon, Rack Space, Go Daddy (Web Hosting) *
Magento, Self-Made, Shopify (eCommerce Platform)

To see more detail go to vestvendor.

ref : http://blog.bestvendor.com/2011/07/survey-results-the-startups-toolkit/

List up is easy, but getting the most out of tools is require a lot of effort. The elements which has * is the ones that can be meaningful for the personal productivity purpose as an web specialist. In other words, many of those are popular but only some use it efficiently and in detail.

Good to research : BaseCamp, Jira & BugZilla, Rails, RSPEC & JNuit, GIT
Good to utilise in detail : DropBox, Google Docs