One ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2012.2 includes some amazing new tooling enhancements for HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. We're marching forward with even more great stuff. There’s powerful features like Model Binding + Friendly URLs. ASP.NET Web Forms allows you to build an application with all the bells and whistles of an MVC 4 application with all the productivity of Web Forms.

Two weeks ago, we published a beta of HttpClient that provides support for automatic decompression. Since then, we’ve received a fair amount of feedback, especially around the fact that it relies on a native implementation of compression that isn’t available on the same platforms as HttpClient. Today, we’ve published another beta of HttpClient that will address those concerns.

Too good to be true? Maybe. But adding the word “My” to a few of your calls-to-action is certainly at lot easier than a complete redesign! Five minutes of time could possibly have a measurable effect on your conversion rate.

The Google font directory is a collection of 10 Google web font combinations that will rock your next project! hosted on Google servers and available for use on your website under an open source license. With a staggering 506 font families available and with new fonts added on a regular basis.

Thankfully, if you are losing your passion for typical web or software development, your training and experience have at least in part prepared you for several alternative roles that perhaps you have not considered, including Performance Engineer and many more...

In using iOS7 for a bit, my biggest problem with it is that the design is in my face, and I am constantly reflecting back on that body snatchers video of Jony Ive explaining the rationale.

If you are a web developer, you’ve probably heard of nginx (pronounced engine-x). Nginx is a fast and extremely powerful http and reverse proxy server that can be used to quickly and easily serve webpages.

If you haven't kept up to date, the Creative Cloud (CC) is the new version of our Creative Suite. Creative Cloud gives you access to over thirty different applications and services, including hundreds of new features to products like Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and the Edge tools.

Today I have prepared a new hand-selected collection of new trends in web design for your imagination and inspiration.

Thanks to Reto Aeberli, Brackets is getting some CFML love in the form of cfBrackets. It's early days for this project, but this one looks really promising.

Aristochart is highly customizable and flexible line charting library for canvas. Aristochart allows you to focus on aesthetic while it manages the data behind the scenes.

A dynamic grid layout that let's you choose how many rows and columns of items are shown. Partly based on the visualization of Google Trends, except that you can add transitions.

I thought this might be fun. You may be aware that at last week’s WWDC, Apple announced a shiny, new line of remarkable-looking, high-end Mac Pros. While they appear to be great hardware, it was the many comparisons drawn between them and Darth Vader that had me chuckling.

Do You Really Need jQuery? Sometimes — especially if you want to support IE6/7/8 using jQuery 1.x. However, modern browser APIs now provide much of the functionality we take for granted in jQuery. In this article, we’re going to look at methods related to CSS.

The aim of this article is to address the PDF export from client side grid frameworks. The solution is done using the iTextSharp in ASP.NET MVC 4 and Visual Studio 2012. jQGrid is one of the client grid framework built on top of the jQuery framework. It helps in building a beautiful grid with paging, sorting and exiting options. There are also other features available as extension plugins and developers can write their own if needed. Please do a nuget update before running the demo code if you face DLL reference issue. I have enabled nugget restore, hence references will be downloaded and updated during the build.

Here is a collection of websites to get inspiration, ideas for your next WordPress project. There are many great collection of WordPress powered sites out there, but I wanted to provide you not just inspiration but different ideas, features, plugins and addons .

Flat Design philosophy preaches that if something doesn't help usability, leave it out of the design to make something look good tends to shift away from the details that will make something more efficient and easy to use

Today we want to show you how to create some simple, yet stylish hover effects for image captions. The idea is to have a grid of figures and apply a hover effect to the items which will reveal a caption with the title, author and a link button. For some of the effects we will use 3D transforms. The aim is to keep the effects subtle and provide inspiration for many different variations.

Adobe Dreamweaver CC is web design and developing application for creating websites and applications for use on multiple targets including browsers, devices, and tablets.

This SVG path element tutorial explains how to use the path element, including how to move the pen, drawing lines, archs, quadratic and cubic Bezier curves, markers and more.

I remember putting together my first email list in excel way back in 1998 when I use to promote events. Email marketing really sucked back then. It was tedious and cumbersome. Getting a custom newsletter design to work in all email clients consistently was an exercise in futility.