Saturday

"Modern UI" to replace "Metro"

It seems like after David has visited d Microsoft HQ in Seattle, US, this gives inspiration to the Microsoft team to name the upcoming and next generation of Windows to "Modern UI". The tile-shape in block touch-centric new Window's Start Menu. Prior to this, there was a rumour said the new name of this look-n-feel was known as "Window 8" to replace the "Metro". I am looking forward to seeing the RTM version of Windows 8 in October, 2012. Bye bye.

LESS

Less code, less footprint, this is what LESS.org offers.

LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavious such as variables, mixins, namespaces and functions, it makes CSS easy to work with. Now, it’s important to remember it doesn’t code your CSS for you – it isn’t a magic CSS editor. You still need to know how to work with CSS. It allows you to write CSS once and use it in multiple places. This is something I’ve wanted for a long time and now it’s here.

Google I/O 2010剛剛落幕,不知道皆さん有沒有親臨Google I/O 2010嗎?那最近,筆者重溫一些Google I/O 2009的影片。發現到其實,在之前的一個筆者的Project里的問題,其實是可以用JSONP來解決。

什么是JSONP呢?JSONP是一種方案獲取 JSON數據來自另一個Domain。如果您嘗試使用Ajax請求的數據,從不同的Domain,那你會得到一個安全錯誤。

有了JSONP,Cross-domain request, 將不再是問題了。:p

Monday

DotNetZip

Simple yet powerful is the best way to describe DotNetZip. DotNetZip is a very powerful library written in C# for .Net developers. The most important thing is, it is absolutely FREE!

Thursday

Visual Studio 2010, kaboom!

久しぶり!皆さん、お元気ですか?First entry since February 2010. I have been busy moving ALL my stuffs from KL back to Butterworth and Penang, and also trying hard to blend into the life in Penang and Butterworth!

After a month-time, I returned to Penang, the Microsoft Corporation launched Visual Studio 2010 not only in M'sia but also other countries. They organized a huge event for promoting Microsoft long-awaited IDE(Integrated-Development Environment).

In Malaysia, Microsoft had this launching workshop/event in Klang Valley. Thanx to Microsoft, Microsoft did not overlook the developer community in Northen Region of M'sia, there is a smaller-scale launching event in Penang on 15th April 2010.

I was expecting that it would be yet another marketing show by Microsoft Malaysia, as the event is and free-of-charge event, but surprising the speakers covered more on the technical area of the Visual Studio 2010.

The VS 2010 gives more time to developer staying in zone. In the past, most of the developers tend to switch from one IDE to another one during development (E.g. switching the workspace from Microsoft Visual Studio to Microsoft Expression). VS 2010 ease the pain making developer stay-in-zone, which means stay in Visual Studio as long as possible.

Prior to VS 2010, SharePoint development is hard, as Sharepoint developers have to go through 17-steps, each step is tough and tedious. With VS 2010, developers have no longer need to go through the 17 dreadful steps.

In addition to this, Microsoft also introduces lots of handy tools for QA engineers to ease their testing jobs. The VS2010 also improve the interaction and communication between QA engineers and software developers.

Fore more information on VS2010, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/