If you are like me — always living in Linux, but sometimes being required to develop ASP.NET sites — you have no doubt used MonoDevelop. While its latest iteration brings in many good things, it’s still not the ready-to-use Visual Studio. Once you are past the System.UnauthorizedAccessException and Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Web.WebPages’ […]
Category: Tutorials
I tend to frequently share interesting things I’ve learned.
The Making-of an Android App
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Projects & Experiments, Tutorials — 4 CommentsI have been developing mobile web apps since quite some time now, mostly using popular JavaScript frameworks, like Sencha Touch, which give a native look & feel to the app. Web apps have their merits, but using a platform’s SDK in order to develop a true native app is is inevitable in cases where you […]
Hosting meteor.js app in IIS
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Tutorials — 10 CommentsMaking reactive and real-time web applications is in fashion these days. Among popular real-time programming frameworks are meteor.js, knockout.js and signalr. Both Knockout and SignalR are developed by Microsoft employees, and integrate seamlessly with Microsoft products. Meteor, on the other hand, is though based on the cross-platform node.js, it is more Linux / Mac-centric than […]
Fixing the partition table: Mis-sized extended partition
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Tutorials — Leave a commentThis article requires the reader to have at least some basic understanding of harddisk partitions and MBR. If you are one of the rare unfortunate blokes who have got their partition table screwed up due to a mis-sized extended partition, fret not, for there’s a very simple-to-use tool that can fix things for you. I […]
TweetDeck — Installing in Ubuntu 64-bit
Posted on under Tutorials — 3 CommentsWith Adobe AIR‘s (the runtime required by TweetDeck) official support for Linux ended, and no Linux 64-bit edition already in place, installing TweetDeck it in Ubuntu 64-bit is one hell of a task. You can get it installed in your 64-bit Linux system by following one of these tutorials, but chances are you’ll end up […]