CSS3 introduces a useful little property called box-shadow, which as the name suggests adds a shadow to an element. Simple box shadow You can create a basic box shadow like this: This casts a shadow with an X-offset of 10 pixels and a Y-offset of 20 pixels: You can equally use negative values for the …
Besides the much talked about video tag, HTML5 also introduced a couple of new input types, one of which is a rather interesting range input type which basically translates to a slider bar control: The range input type is currently supported by the latest versions of Safari, Chrome and Opera while other browsers such as …
As you may know already, CSS3 has introduced a new set of properties which allows you to easily add curved corners to a box. Simple round corners You can create a div with round corners with this simple css: However, given the stage of development CSS3 is at as of now this is only supported …
This one took me by surprise a little but there’s something about the Enumerable.Except method which you ought to know about. At first you might have assumed (as I did) that given an array as the base set and calling the Except extension method with a second array will return all the items in the …
You know how Visual Studio neatly collates all the relevant files (the XAML and the code behind file in this case) for you whenever you create a new user control or page in WPF: needless to say, in any sizable UI project this makes life hell of a lot easier navigating through the solution! However, …
Stumbled upon this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff963553.aspx Enjoy!
Most C# developers will know what “public”, “private”, “protected” and “internal” access modifiers mean and would have had to use them in their code, but rarely do we come across the “protected internal” access modifier. Now, protected means the type or member can be accessed by derived classes, NOT restricted to the same assembly, whereas …
If you’re reading this post you probably already know about Amazon Elastic Block Store, aka Amazon EBS, one of the many services provided by the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem. An EBS volume can range from 1GB to 1TB and can be mounted to an Amazon EC2 instance as a device, each EBS volume can …
Creating and mounting an EBS volume to a Windows Amazon EC2 Instance Read More »
Stumbled across ic#code‘s free ebook ‘The fine art of commenting’ this morning, it’s from 2002 but everything still applies, you can download it here. The book covers commenting in general and not just C#, but in relation to C# here’s the list of the predefined xml tags you can use in comments (something I have …
Having spent quite a bit of time coding in F# recently I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience of coding in a functional style and come to really like the fact you can do so much with so little code. One of the counter-claims against F# has always been the concerns over performance in the most …
Performance Test – Prime numbers with LINQ vs PLINQ vs F# Read More »
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