Leap Ahead With Free Pluralsight Training on Leap Day

This day is not long enough for how many tech goodies are being released. Head over to Pluralsight for an entire day of free training. Remember also to download your copy of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta, both released today. Have fun! 😉

My favorite Xbox games

I’ve never been a big gamer. During my childhood I used the old PC mainly for school (I was studying Computer Science). But then came the Wii. I loved the idea of actively playing, instead of sitting at the desk in front of the monitor playing with the keyboard. I used it daily for sports … Continue reading My favorite Xbox games →

Xbox Join Party & Game, Video Kinect: “Could not connect. Please try again later.”

I’ve bought Live Gold membership for my brother and myself so we can play together online and do Video Kinect chats, instead of using Skype. Unfortunately we spent a whole Sunday trying to make it work unsuccessfully. I posted a question on the Xbox Support site but only one guy replied saying that I have … Continue reading Xbox Join Party & Game, Video Kinect: “Could not connect. Please try again later.” →

jQuery Proven Performance Tips And Tricks (Slides) by Addy Osmani

„Apps should be snappy, not sloppy”, that’s what Addy Osmani writes. Also how true is this: “Best practices offer optimal approaches to solving problems. If we don’t follow them, browsers can end up having to do more work, which means more memory use and slower apps.” A part of the steps we should take in … Continue reading jQuery Proven Performance Tips And Tricks (Slides) by Addy Osmani →

JavaScript naming conventions and coding guidelines

I’ve recognized that I’m sometimes not following the general rules when writing JavaScript code. *ashamed* For example: - Using a lot of C# conventions, which are wrong in JS, - Putting accidentally variables and functions in the global scope, - Pascal and Camel casing is mixedly used for naming variables and functions all over our … Continue reading JavaScript naming conventions and coding guidelines →