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My 1st YouTube Video: Angular.JS Directives Demo

Mohamed Meligy — Sun, 05 May 2013 07:32:44 +0000

So, my wife has been encouraging me to get this starting over the past 4 years or so. I was more busy with offline groups at first, followed by traveling to work in different countries, and then later all sorts of new stuff I wanted to learn around .NET, software craft in general, and web [...]

Download Visual Studio Updates For Offline Installation

Mohamed Meligy — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:36:07 +0000

In case you don’t know already, Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 was released April 4th (Official Announcement – Download Page – Release Notes). Like the previous Visual Studio update, you get a very small EXE file, which you run to download the update from the Internet, install it, and then delete it. This means that [...]

New Entity Framework Feature Request: Migrations: Allow Multiple Migration SQL Generator per Provider

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:51:08 +0000

I’ve just added this feature request to Entity Framework Uservoice site and was wondering whether you’d like to up-vote / share / tweet it if you think it’s good to have. Migrations: Allow Multiple Migration SQL Generator per Provider http://data.uservoice.com/forums/72025-entity-framework-feature-suggestions/suggestions/3812292-migrations-allow-multiple-migration-sql-generator Inline, here’s what the feature request is about: One way to allow community to contribute [...]

Easy Ways To Discover Feed URL of A Website / Page

Mohamed Meligy — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:13:17 +0000

All blogs and news websites provide some sort of aggregation feed, usually RSS or ATOM. This allows users to add the feed URL to their favourite aggregator and stay updated with future stuff when they come. This post shows how to get a URL to subscribe to, and how to get multiple URLs if the [...]

NodeJS On Windows – Choosing Components To Install

Mohamed Meligy — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:14:32 +0000

In case you didn’t know, NodeJS v0.10.0 has been recently released, a number of interesting changes were mentioned in the blog post, mainly around making some core APIs easier to use, which required several in changes in the codebase to support, and caused some interesting performance characteristics changes . I couldn’t wait, so, I looked [...]

Using Arabic (Unicode) Post URLs (Slugs) In WordPress On Windows Server 2008 R2

Mohamed Meligy — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:47:26 +0000

Background My wife has a bilingual weblog. She writes in Arabic and in English. One thing she noticed is that when she writes a post in Arabic, and does not specify a post slug (URL) manually, WordPress will generate a slug in Arabic based on post title (which is encoded to equivalent URL Unicode escape [...]

ASP.NET and Tools 2012.2 Update & Web Essentials Extension

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:37:12 +0000

For those who didn’t see the news flying everywhere, there is a new ASP.NET (mainly tooling) update announced on Scott Guthrie’s blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/02/18/announcing-release-of-asp-net-and-web-tools-2012-2-update.aspx Release Notes: http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/fall-2012-update/aspnet-and-web-tools-20122-release-notes-rtw If are using the great Web Essentials Visual Studio extension, and you updated the extension yesterday and noticed in Web Essentials change log that several editors like LESS and [...]

Identify Your Weaknesses & Optimize For Them

Mohamed Meligy — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:36:21 +0000

It is very important to understand your weaknesses and optimise your methods for them. For example, I have a very hesitant random memory. At any point in time, I’ll remember some things in deep details, remember only certain characteristics (important or otherwise) of certain other things, vaguely recognize the existence of other things, and completely [...]

For those who wonder, Readify is still (always) hiring

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:22:10 +0000

This is an open letter I wanted to share with you… Anyone doing software development on Microsoft platform? (or knows someone who does) I think I may have a challenging opportunity for you. I work as a Senior Consultant for Readify Pty Ltd. Readify is an Australia-wide software consulting company specialised in Microsoft technologies. We [...]

Node JS On Windows: Unable To Update NPM? A Possible Reason & Workaround

Mohamed Meligy — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:55:21 +0000

How I Hit This I was playing with Node installation, and had a problem installing a certain Node package (which happened to be the first package I tried). I googled the problem and what seemed relevant problem was solved by updating NPM (Node Package Manager). I went to NodeJS website, downloaded the latest Node [...]

TweetDeck’s "Interactions" Column Is Brilliant

Mohamed Meligy — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:51:56 +0000

In Twitter’s own website, there’s now a “Connect” tab next to “Home” once you log in. In this tab, you see all the your new followers, others retweeting you, and your twitter mentions. I’m usually interested in this kind of information, not just mentions but any interest in what I have on my twitter account. [...]

On Communicating Your Message More Than It’s On Telstra NextG

Mohamed Meligy — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:52:57 +0000

Background For so many years, the Australian mobile network provider Telstra had exclusive right to use the 3G network frequency 850 MHz. All other carriers were only allowed to use the 2100 MHz band (“Optus” had 900 MHz in rural areas, although didn’t have them in so many government-licensed towers). The low frequency band has [...]

Creating Explicit Route To Website Homepage In ASP.NET MVC

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:03:59 +0000

Typically, you have this standard piece of routing configuration: routes.MapRoute( name: "Default", url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}", defaults: new {controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional} ); Which does the job of matching “/” to HcomeController‘s Index action. The reason it works is simple, the id parameter is obviously optional, the action parameter if not present [...]

Grouping ASP.NET MVC Controllers And Views By Features

Mohamed Meligy — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:12:31 +0000

If you don’t like your folders to be named after blah software pattern (that happens to be MVC), and would like instead of having “Views” and “Controllers” folders (not many use “Models” folder), to see things like “Administration”, “Members”, “FeatureA”, “FeatureB” etc. folders in your web application instead, it’s not that hard. Putting Controllers Next [...]

Looking for Windows Server 2012 Hosting? (Dedicated Server Or VPS), I Know One!

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:08:05 +0000

Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 has been released very recently. I was wondering when hosting providers will start providing it, talking to the hosting provider that hosts this very blog, SoftSys Hosting, they told me that they already have Windows Server 2012 hosting plans, bother for Virtual Server (VPS) or dedicated servers. I’ve been [...]

Lowercase URLs in ASP.NET MVC, The Easy .NET 4.5 Way And Other NuGet Options

Mohamed Meligy — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 08:26:00 +0000

If you wonder why you should care about creating lower case URLs at all, or what this actually even means, skip to the appendix at the end. Earlier, the easiest way I have found to create lower case URLs (URL paths, not query strings) was to use the NuGet package LowercaseRoutesMVC, and modify the routing [...]

DDD Sydney Is Back – Vote For Sessions & Register Today

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:05:43 +0000

It’s this time of the year, and DDD Sydney is taking place again by end of June 2012 :-) Yes, it’s “the other” DDD … Developer Developer Developer! If you don’t remember the way sessions get chosen in DDD is that call for submissions is first open for everybody for a couple of weeks, then [...]

Creating Absolute Urls Of Controller Actions In ASP.NET MVC

Mohamed Meligy — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:25:48 +0000

An Example Of The Need To Use Absolute URLs I have been doing some work around twitter and ASP.NET MVC. The way twitter authentication works, is that I have a page that creates a twitter URL, redirects the user to twitter, the users accepts to use the application associated with the website, and twitter redirects [...]

JavaScript Intellisense in VS 2012, The _references.js File

Mohamed Meligy — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:30:00 +0000

If you downloaded Visual Studio 11 Beta, and tried to create a new ASP.NET MVC 4 empty project, looking at the “Scripts” folder, you’ll see this new file “_references.js”: Which looks like the following: /// <reference path="jquery-1.6.2.js" /> /// <reference path="jquery-ui-1.8.11.js" /> /// <reference path="jquery.validate.js" /> /// <reference path="knockout-2.0.0.debug.js" /> /// <reference path="modernizr-2.0.6-development-only.js" /> The [...]

Python, Ruby, or PHP? (My Take On Answering The Question)

Mohamed Meligy — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:06:43 +0000

A friend I know has been developing desktop applications with .NET for quite long time. He wanted to improve himself even more by going out of his comfort zone learning more stuff he’s not familiar with. So, he spent some time learning client side web technologies and wanted to add some “non” .NET server technologies [...]

Hey, Readify is hiring all across Australia, from all over the world!

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:19:48 +0000

Too long to read? Readify, the great consulting company where I work now, is hiring for Senior Developer (Consultant) and Senior Consultant positions all across Australia, and sponsors work visa for accepted international applications. You can apply here: http://bit.ly/readify-openings. You can also just sit down and write an introductory letter about yourself why you think [...]

The Year O’clock! Goodbye 2011, New Year Resolutions for 2012

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:46:35 +0000

For many years, people used to laugh at the World End 2012 prophecy. This year, people’s joke was that we’d be very lucky if we manage to get to the end of 2011 even!Yeah, 2011 is such a bloody, surprising, rich, optimistic, pessimistic, and loaded year. So many events, so many famous deaths, so much [...]

Welcome GuruStop’s New HTML5 Sidebar Search Widget!

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:59:00 +0000

Hey folks, I just removed the default WordPress search widget and a new one using the HTML 5 input search type, a bunch of CSS 3 (and fall back for older browsers like older versions of IE), and a little bit of JavaScript. It’s still based on the same background image used in this blog [...]

Multiple Startup Projects: Stop VS2010 Change To Current Project

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:04:21 +0000

If you work on a solution that requires multiple startup projects, you can change that in Visual Studio: One catch though is that sometimes Visual Studio will switch the Startup project to whatever project you select in Solution Explorer (work on one of its files). If this happens to you, just select one of the [...]

Creating a simple C# like string.Format() method for JavaScript

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:42:00 +0000

Recently I started working on some interesting HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript bits (involving jQuery and jQuery UI). I have worked with all of them before, but not as extensively. Most of my work is some reusable stuff that I can develop generic demos out of (from scratch, unrelated to the custom stuff required [...]

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