Razor is a great way to create views with ASP.NET MVC. One feature I use quite often are custom helpers. Instead of duplicating the same few lines of markup I…
Month: February 2015
IDC: Android and iOS accounted for 96.3% of global smartphone shipments in Q4 2014 and the whole year
Android and iOS accounted for 96.3 percent of all smartphone shipments in Q4 2014, and coincidentally, 96.3 percent for all of last year as well. That means the duopoly grew…
Introducing ASP.NET 5
The first preview release of ASP.NET 1.0 came out almost 15 years ago. Since then millions of developers have used it to build and run great web applications, and over…
SQL Server: how to convert INTEGER to TIME
I have a very simple solution. If you have a field in database in int format and you want to know how many seconds it’s, the query is: SELECT CONVERT(char(5),…
What is HTTP/2 and is it going to speed up the web?
The web is about to get faster thanks to a new version of HTTP – the biggest change since 1999 to the protocol that underpins the world wide web as…
Implementing Scrum (Agile) and CMMI Together
IntroductionIf you are a software engineer or IT professional, your group has very likely shown a strong interest in reducing costs, improving quality and productivity. Your group might also have…
CoreCLR is now Open Source
We’re excited to announce that CoreCLR is now open source on GitHub. CoreCLR is the .NET execution engine in .NET Core, performing functions such as garbage collection and compilation to…