Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

13 years after founding the website 4GuysFromRolla & writing for it for all these years on Classic ASP & ASP.NET, Scott Mitchell is calling it quits. And oh! I got to know just today that the site I've been following since 2000 is pronounced 4GuysFrom Rawl-ah , not 4GuysFrom Roll-ah.  He has made a candid assessment of why the site started failing after he sold it to Internet.com during the dotcom heydays. Scott Mitchell belongs to that rare breed of developers who can also explain things well as they can identify with the audience. Like scores of other web developers, I relied heavily on his tutorial site when I started my career with Classic ASP. He has consistently maintained the quality of articles & they are always educative. His  "An Extensive Examination of" series  of articles covering important .NET topics is excellent material for self-learners. As I mentioned earlie r, I find it is an interesting coincidence that beside...

"The problem with quotes from the internet is you can never quite be sure they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln To build web apps with a great UI, its ok to draw inspiration from the best sites on the web. Sometimes the good-looking websites with great JavaScript effects may obfuscate their code knowingly or unknowingly or the code may be difficult to understand by just viewing the HTML source.  Visual Events is a nifty bookmarklet that shows the events attached to each of the elements in a webpage. The keyboard & mouse events are represented as icons & when you mouse over any icon the source code related to it is shown. This is helpful because on JavaScript intensive sites you don't have to rummage through the entire source to find a small code block that you need. For instance, when you mouse over a Tag button on the StackOverflow site , it shows a tooltip If you call the Visual Event bookmarklet while this page is loaded, you will see this icon  over t...

Pamela Fox's Developer Support Handbook is based on her experiences at Google Developer Relations. Aimed at API providers, it discusses the following topics -     * Documentation     * Forum Support     * Issue Tracking     * Communication     * Top Developers Also see: The Developer Evangelist Handbook