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NuGet – The Visual Studio Sweetner
Recently we saw some new features in Visual Studio 2012 for a Web Developer. One feature we didn’t touch upon was Nuget! NuGet per-se is not a new feature and it’s been around for a couple of years now. However, no Visual Studio article is complete without a mention of Nuget. So we decided to follow up with an article specially dedicated to NuGet .
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The State of Spinners
If you need to indicate “please wait, something is happening” on a website, a spinner has long been the go-to choice. Probably an animated GIF, although there are other options like CSS animations, apng, SVG, or canvas. James Padolsey goes through each of the possibly options and explains the good and bad as well as introduces a cool new tool.
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The State of Spinners is a post from CSS-Tricks
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
There’s a very clear theme to this week’s top comments: they all come from stories about companies, governments and organizations fighting and punishing the people they are supposed to serve. For example, we’ve got the Florida homeowner’s association … Continue reading
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Detecting Java Threads in Deadlock with Groovy and JMX
Unfortunately, Java applications taking advantage of multiple threads can at times run into the dreaded deadlock condition. Fortunately, the Java Platform makes deadlock detection relatively easy. In fact, the built-in (since J2SE 5) ThreadMXBean (a Pl… Continue reading
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Dennis Deems’ Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
I’m Dennis Deems, a composer, songwriter, and playwright living and working
in almost total obscurity. These are my favorite Techdirt posts of the past week.
Would you like DRM with that?
EA Labels President: DRM Is A Failed Strategy, But SimC… Continue reading
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Awesome Stuff: Computers And Gesture Input Devices
Okay, I really thought this week was going to be the one where our awesome stuff posts didn’t have a theme. But… because of some last minute finds, you not only get two separate themes, but also four projects, rather than our standard three. First … Continue reading
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This Is Not The Cloud Computing We Should Have
Even though I was never a big Google Reader user, its death has got me thinking about online services quite a bit lately — and really reminded me that we’ve done the cloud wrong. Rather than build true cloud computing, we’ve built a bunch of lockboxe… Continue reading
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What I Learned About My Own Daily Life From The Latest North Korean Propaganda Video
Update: As pointed out in the comments… this is a hoax. The video is real, but the translation is made up for the sake of comedy value. Considering that Monday is April Fool’s Day, where a bunch of people are going to be trying to fool others, let’… Continue reading
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UPS Coughs Up $40 Million Because It Delivered Drugs From Rogue Pharmacies
Whenever we talk about things like “secondary liability” and why it doesn’t make sense to blame a company for something their users do, we’ll often use examples like pointing out that it’s inappropriate to blame AT&T if someone makes a bomb threat… Continue reading
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DailyDirt: The Quest For The Perfect Sugar Substitute
There’s nothing like the taste of real sugar, but since people want to be able to indulge in sweet things without having to worry about the calories, there’s a huge market for sugar substitutes. There’s no shortage of choices — stevia, aspartame, suc… Continue reading
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