Mahdi Taghizadeh

The Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for .NET Developers

Mahdi Taghizadeh — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:03:42 +0000

TweetA few days ago I blogged about a .gitignore file for those developers with a focus on .NET technology and tools and today I want to share a small cheatsheet with you I called it “The Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for .NET Developers”. You have probably seen many cheatsheets and blog posts talking about useful [...]

A .gitignore File for .NET Developers

Mahdi Taghizadeh — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:52:26 +0000

TweetIt’s a few weeks that I have started to move my projects over to Git. You’ve certainty heard a lot about this DVCS and its advantages and in this post I’m not gonna enter this area of pros and cons. As I’m a .NET developer, working with Visual Studio and other related tools from Microsoft [...]

Sencha Touch HTML5 Project Template for Visual Studio 2010

Mahdi Taghizadeh — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:18:17 +0000

TweetSencha Touch is a powerful JavaScript framework for mobile which is based on HTML5 and CSS3 and let you create eye catching web applications for popular mobile platforms like Android, iOS and BlackBerry. If you’re a Microsoft developer, most likely you prefer to work in your favorite IDE: Visual Studio. In order to create a [...]

Android vs. iPhone – My Very Own Experience

Mahdi Taghizadeh — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:22:23 +0000

Tweet It’s more than two months that I have left the Apple club and started using an Android phone. Prior to that I was an iPhone 3G user for almost 15 months and I confess that it was a different and amazing experience for me and I’m thankful for Apple for its great device; but [...]

Help The First Persian IT and Computer Q&A Website

Mahdi Taghizadeh — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:09:18 +0000

TweetEverybody in the community has seen StackOverflow website at least once and many developers use this great QA website on a daily basis in order to ask their technical questions or help other developers resolve their programming issues. StackOverflow is built using a platform called StackExchange. StackExchange is (now a free) platform that let one [...]

Updated feed address

Mahdi Taghizadeh — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:43:07 +0000

TweetIf you're an old reader of my blog you know that my blog was previously on SharpLife.NET domain name and its feed was http://feeds.feedburner.com/SharpLife, after I migrated it to mahdi.mp domain name, I changed this feed's target to mahdi.mp too but I have been seeing many readers are still subscribing to old address instead of [...]

EAV and the .NET Framework

Mahdi Taghizadeh — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:47:56 +0000

TweetRecently I've been working on a web application's database model in which I had different types of products and services that my client is going to offer in his eShop. The problem was different nature of attributes each type had and I should have defined a relationship between them and my online order pipleline. Using [...]

How to use Google Data API in ASP.NET MVC. Part 2 – YouTube

Mahdi Taghizadeh — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:31:51 +0000

TweetPreviously on this series, I had talked about How to use Google Data API in ASP.NET MVC to interact with Google Analytics. In this second part I'm going to show you how to store and retrieve videos on/from YouTube using Google Data API and YouTube API. YouTube is the largest and most popular video sharing [...]

Create a Twitter API proxy for your own!

Mahdi Taghizadeh — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:05:56 +0000

TweetAs you may know I live in Iran and many websites are blocked here due to governmental censorship policies. Therefor, to access websites like Facebook or Twitter we have to use proxies or VPNs. Proxies and VPNs have their own problems here and are not reliable solutions indeed. The issue becomes more complicated when it [...]

A documentary about Mohammadreza Shajarian on BBC Persian

Mahdi Taghizadeh — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:21:28 +0000

TweetMohammadreza Shajarian is currently the most prominent traditional music singer in Iran. He is very popluar among Iranian people of all ages because of his magical voice and music and also his beliefs in freedom and liberty. He has been always alongside the Iraninan people and never allowed the powers, either the former Shah of [...]