My Favorite Programming Fonts for Visual Studio Development

I spend almost 6 hours everyday, working on Visual Studio. That makes me experiment with the type, color and size of the fonts I use in my IDE, to make my development environment look hot and fresh! Here’s a list of my favorite programming fonts. Please note that this list is just my personal preference.

Original post from DevCurry.com here.

Consolas

DejaVu Sans

Monaco

Lucida Console

 

 

Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery

Create and share Visual Studio color schemes.
Great growing community of Visual Studio Styles and Themes. You can create, import and export themes in your browser!

Some of the Top-rated schemes:

jQuery 1.4.3 API Cheat Sheet

As usual, our Russian friends updated Cheat Sheet for jQuery 1.4.3 Here
Pdf Version
Png

Best jQuery Plugins - September 2010

Best jQuery Plugins - September 2010, Original post  Here .

Snippet :: jQuery Syntax Highlighter

Snippet is a jQuery syntax highlighting plugin built on top of the SHJS script found on SourceForge. Snippet provides a quick and easy way of highlighting source code passages in HTML documents.
Try out a demo





Exposure
 
Exposure is a jQuery plugin for rich and smart photo viewing that can handle very large amounts of photos.

$ ulSlide

This plugin will help you to add slide and fade effects to the site in more simple way.
Try out a demo

Easy Gallery

An easy jquery image gallery slider. Simple code and simple HTML code.
Try out a demo

IMGr :: jQuery Image Rounder

IMGr is a jQuery plugin for rounding image corners. The script utilizes CSS3 in modern web browsers, and VML in Internet Explorer 8 and below.
Try out a demo
and much More ...

Microsoft Developer Guidance Maps

As part of creating an "information architecture" for developer guidance at Microsoft, one of the tasks means mapping out what we already have.  That means mapping out out our Microsoft developer content assets across Channel9, MSDN Developer Centers, MSDN Library, Code Gallery, CodePlex, the All-in-One Code Framework, etc.

You can browse our Developer Guidance Maps at http://innovation.connect.microsoft.com/devguidancemaps

Original J.D. Meier's Blog Here .

Why Working From Home is both Awesome and Horrible

Hat tip to Hyperbole and a Half for the artwork on this one.

12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers

There's a great post on Programmers MUST have tools and software from Jesse Liberty Senior Program Manager for Microsoft.

#1. ReSharper or CodeRush
#2. Fiddler and FireBug
#3. Tortoise SVN
#4 TimeSnapper
#5 Instant VB….
#6 ExamDiff Pro
#7 AutoHotKey
#7 AutoHotKey
#8 Clipx
#9 Snip It Pro
#10 Evernote
#11 Mozy
#12 Mikago

More details Here

Me & Mitch Fatel

I think this guy one of the funniest comedian.
I saw him at Tampa Improv on Jan 2010.

Visit his site @ http://mitchfatel.com

Modern Life?

Soccer | Football | World Cup - Worst Dives of All Time

The worst football/soccer dives of all time.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kswQkBvMe9w

This staff is funny.

STANDUP COMEDIAN | FIRST TIME OF SEX

It's the best comeback.
Turn up your volume.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJfKq_x4bpM&

30 Pro jQuery Tips, Tricks and Strategies

Whether you’re a developer or a designer, a strong jQuery skillset is something you can’t afford to be without. Today, we'll see 30 handy jQuery coding tricks that will help you make your scripts more robust, elegant and professional.

#1 – Delay with Animate()
#2 – Loop through Elements Backwards
#3 – Is There Anything in the jQuery Object?
#4 – Access iFrame Elements
#5 – Equal Height Columns
#6 – Find a Selected Phrase and Manipulate It

#7 – Hack Your Titles to Prevent Widows
#8 – Add Pseudo-Selector Support in IE
#9 – Manage Search Box Values
#10 – Create a Disappearing ‘Back-to-Top’ Link

Original Post Here .

5 jQuery Must Have Code Snippets

If you haven’t heard of jQuery yet, than you are definitely missing out on one of the most dynamic and stable JavaScript Libraries. With thousands of plug-ins and added widgets it makes jQuery one of the leaders in javascript frameworks. jQuery is designed to cut all hand-code in half if not more simplifying HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for more streamlined web development.

1.)Linkable Div’s

2.)Table Stripes (Zebra)

3.)Swap Input Fields

4.) Back To Top Link

5.)On Hover Add/Remove Class

Original Post Here .

Best jQuery plugins - June 2010

JcubeiT Plugin


Pretty funny one demonstrating how to build a cube using new CSS properties.
Its use is very simple, you only need 3 objects (the visible faces of the cube) inside of a DIV container. Such objects could be links, images, other divs, etc.
Try out a demo

dualSlider

A great option to have as a splash feature at the top of your site, highlights recent articles you want to advertise, that might have a nice graphic or even a video...basically anything you want.
Try out a demo

popeye - an inline lightbox alternative

Popeye generates an inline image gallery from an unordered list of images. The gallery features clever inline image enlargement, i.e. the enlarged image stretches out over the site content without adding a visual overlay of the whole site. It stays fixed with one edge to its original coordinates, so that a sense of cohesiveness is created in the user interface and interaction.
Try out a demo

Image Desaturate

This plugin allow you to desaturate (convert to gray) images. Support of transparent png for IE is included (not compatible with other png fix plugins).
Try out a demo

and  More .

New Chart Control in Visual Studio 2010

There is a lot of excitement around the imminent release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Amongst many new features is the ASP.NET Web Charting Control. In this video, Max Adams introduces the control and demonstrates just how easy it actually is to create visually appealing statistical or financial analysis tools in a browser using the Chart control.
Video Here.

Comic for April 24, 2010

19 Tips Every Windows 7 User Needs to Know

Twist cap carefully. Only pour into Maximum PC-approved computer tanks.
After installing a new OS, most people just jump right in and start driving it through all their favorite applications and games. Makes sense, right? The operating system, after all, should be a background player in the computing experience—a means to an end, with the end being web surfing, content editing, and wanton destruction in the first-person shooter of one’s choice.... More

Keyboard Shortcuts for Committed Mouse Abolitionists

Windows + Up and Windows + Down
Windows + Shift + Up and Windows + Shift + Down
Windows + + and Windows + -

Track Your Actions with Problem Step Recorder

Launch Games with Keystrokes 

Take Control of UAC

Calculate Your Mortgage and Other Math Tricks

and many more....

 

 

LUXURY???

Found this image Here.

Flowchart: Let’s Grab a Beer!

Chart layout by James Norton / Heavy Table
This chart, of course, just scratches the surface and — due to space and organizational concerns — omits many other worthy establishments (Stub & Herb’s, Acadia, Groveland Tap, etc. and so forth). We hope that this is the beginning, not the end, of many a quest for a great local pint or bottle.

Populate an ASP.NET ListBox from JSON results using jQuery

In this example, we will see how to consume an ASP.NET Web Service (EmployeeList.asmx) that is JSON Serialized. The data source for this web service is List in the Employee.cs class. The class can be downloaded from the source code available with this article. Here’s a snapshot of what the class looks like.

Original post Here. 

Live Demo

 

jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet

Thank you to our Russian friends (FutureColors.ru), they posted jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet, included changes for 1.4.1 & 1.4.2 versions.
Online version here.
Pdf version here.
Image version here.

Best jQuery plugins - April 2010

A lot of new and updated jQuery plugins from ajaxLine.com

3D Cloud Carousel

jQuery Slider (Safari style)

TopSlideBox

jQuery modalBox

 and many more...

Original Post Here.

Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster

 Reference cards for the default keybindings in Visual Studio 2010 for Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ and Visual F#.

Download it Here

Cool VS color theme sharing site

Nice little site for sharing Visual Studio color themes.
Here's link

Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Attachment Uploads, Deeper Calendar Integration

Starting today, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6 users can drag and drop attachments into Gmail messages without hassling through the slow, kind of annoying manual file upload. Gmail has also increased their support for Google Calendar with a new Invitation feature.

Drag-and-drop support allows you to simply attach a file into Gmail composition window by dragging the file from an open window into it. There's not much to it beyond that, but it's an incredibly handy feature to have.

The Official Gmail Blog

Ten Cool Things You Didn’t Know About Visual Studio 2010

The 10 most useful new features in Visual Studio 2010.
Original Post by Gergely Orosz.

1. Pin variables when debugging

2. Box selection

3. Search on-the-fly

4. Zooming

5. View Call Hierarchy (my favorite)

iPhone & Wp7 should bow their heads

While iPhone 3G owners and would-be Windows Phone 7 buyers sit in the corner, quietly weeping over their lack of true multitasking, webOS and Symbian continue to point and laugh.

 Original Post  Here.

For Developers: Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4.0 launches, brings improved Windows Phone 7 developer tools

Over the weekend Microsoft has launched the latest iteration of their Visual Studio product, Visual Studio 2010.  Silverlight 4.0 will also be released later this week to the web for download.

Original Post Here.

ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 Released

New version can be downloaded Here.

Learn about the new features and improvements that enable you to easily build, deploy, and manage great Web sites and applications with ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010.