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Bootswatch and Gulp as a Stepping Stone for Your Theme Switch Feature

Bootswatch has awesome themes which are built on top of Bootstrap. To integrate those themes to your web application, you have a few options. One of them is to build the css file by combining bootstrap.less file with the less files provided by bootswatch. This is the way I chose to go with. However, what I actually wanted was a little bit more complex:

Install bootswatch with bower and have every theme available for me to use. Compile each bootswtch theme to CSS. Concatenate and minify each...

AzureConf 2014: An Azure Community Event and My Azure Search Talk

I proud to say that I will be giving a talk on Azure Search, fully managed, cloud-based service that allows developers to build rich search applications using REST APIs, at AzureConf 2014! AzureConf is a community event hosted by Microsoft and it will be streamed live on the 21st of October, 2014.

Here is what AzureConf actually is all about:

On October 21st, 2014, Microsoft will be hosting AzureConf, another free event for the Azure community. This event will feature a keynote presentation...

A Gentle Introduction to Azure Search

With many of the applications we build as software developers, we need our data to be exposed and we want that data to be in an easy reach so that the user of the application can find what they are looking for easily. This task is especially tricky if you have high amount of data (millions, even billions) in your system. At that point, the application needs to give user a great and flawless experience so that the user can filter down the results based on what they are actually looking for. Do...

Using Azure Storage Emulator Command-Line Tool: WAStorageEmulator.exe

When you download the Azure SDK for Visual Studio, it brings down bunch of stuff for you such as Azure Storage and Compute Emulator. With a worker or web role project in Visual Studio, we can get the both emulators up and running by simply firing up the project. However, if we are not working with a web or worker role, we need a way to fire up the storage emulator by ourselves and it is actually pretty easy. Starting from version 3.0 of the emulator, a few things have changed and lots of peop...

Elasticsearch Installation and a Few Core Concepts

So, I have been having my way with Elasticsearch for a few weeks now and it's time for me to blog about it :) I hear what you say :) This is yet another 101 blog post but settle down :) I have a few selfish reasons here. Blogging on a new technology is a way for me to grasp it better. Also, during this time, I have been also looking into Azure Search, an hosted search service solution by Microsoft. You should check this service out, too if what you want is to have an easily scalable hosted se...

Quickly Hosting Static Files In Your Development Environment with Node http-server

Yesterday, I was looking into AngularJS which is a long overdue for me. I wanted to have a really quick test space on my machine to play with AngularJS. I could just go with Plunker or JSFiddle but I wasn’t in the mood for an online editor.

So, I first installed Bower and then I installed a few libraries to get me going. I made sure to save them inside my bower.json file, too:

bower install angular -S
bower install bootstrap -S
bower install underscore –S

Then, I installed my node module to he...

Getting Started with ASP.NET vNext by Setting Up the Environment From Scratch

I'm guessing that you already heard the news about ASP.NET vNext.  It has been announced publicly a few months back at TechEd North America 2014 and it's being rewritten from the ground up which means: "Say goodbye to our dear System.Web.dll" :) No kidding, I'm pretty serious :) It brings lots of improvements which will take the application and development performance to the next level for us, .NET developers. ASP.NET vNext is coming so hard and there are already good amount of resources...

Exciting Things About ASP.NET vNext Series: The Ultimate Guide

Web development experience with .NET has never seen a drastic change like this since its birth day. Yes, I’m talking about ASP.NET vNext :) I have been putting my toes into this water for a while now and as of today, I am starting a new blog post series about ASP.NET vNext (with hopes that I will continue this time :)). To be more specific, I’m planning on writing about the things I am actually excited about this new cloud optimized (TM) runtime. Those things could be anything which will come...

Debugging ASP.NET vNext Beta Builds with Visual Studio 14 CTP 3

Today, I was working on a sample project with ASP.NET vNext. I have been working on this application without any Visual Studio IDE support but I decided to discover what Visual Studio 14 CTP 3 is bring to the table. I know that Visual Studio CTP 3 has launched a while back and I was expecting to have trouble working with ASP.NET vNext beta builds (hot from the developer machine. Find them here). I was partially right. I wasn’t able to run the web application from Visual Studio. However, it’s...

Exciting Things About ASP.NET vNext Series: MVC View Components

Web development experience with .NET has never seen a drastic change like this since its birth day. Yes, I’m talking about ASP.NET vNext :) I have been putting my toes into this water for a while now and a few days ago, I started a new blog post series about ASP.NET vNext (with hopes that I will continue this time :)). To be more specific, I’m planning on writing about the things I am actually excited about this new cloud optimized (TM) runtime. Those things could be anything which will come...