Chris Love's Official ASP.NET Blog

Using Absolute Positioning to Create Flexible Mobile Layouts

Chris Love — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:44:33 GMT

Struggle isn't exactly the right term. More like prolonged torture describes the frustration and experience I have had with some CSS concepts. Let's face it CSS is more of an art than some place where engineers can thrive. But time, practice and just...(read more)

Whitelisting Domains in Cordova (PhoneGap) Android

Chris Love — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:30:44 GMT

I don't know the details, but I know its frustrating when you can't see why something does not work. Since I have been spending time (and honestly more than I feel like I should because of things like this) creating native Android Apps using Cordova (formerly...(read more)

Making an HTML5 version of the Game Pente: Part 3 Placing Stones, Accounting for Resizing & Refactoring

Chris Love — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:43:14 GMT

This is going to be my third installment in this series about making an HTML5 version of the game Pente. The main goal for this phase was to properly place the stones on the nearest grid intersection from where the user touched the board. That part turned...(read more)

Going Native in HTML5 Resources

Chris Love — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:42:00 GMT

This morning I gave my how to do Native experiences using HTML5 talk at the Philly Code Camp . I want to share the links to the live demo site as well as the code and a few other resources. I posted the code I used to a site on my server this morning...(read more)

How to Include Views in ASP.NET MVC & WebMatrix Razor

Chris Love — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:55:00 GMT

As web development and architecture matures so does the way we need to structure our projects. For me that means single page applications. And while I have not had time to write on the topic yet I have been developing my approach to focus on performance...(read more)

What Makes a Good Enterprise Mobile App Store?

Chris Love — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:39:52 GMT

This year is looking like the year enterprises execute a radical shift when it comes to mobile strategies to keep up with the consumerization their employees are forcing. This means organizations of all sizes, from small shops to multi-national behemoths...(read more)

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Mobile Applications

Chris Love — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:19:00 GMT

There are not a lot of books on mobile development I have found to be that helpful so far. Recently I purchased the O'Reilly published Mobile Design Pattern Gallery book and want to recommend it. Its not a book deep in technical details, but rather a...(read more)

Making an HTML5 version of the Game Pente: Part 2 Drawing Stones

Chris Love — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:17:59 GMT

Last week I opened a new series documenting how we are going about writing a HTML5 version of Pente for a class project . The first part focused on creating a Pente board, which is a simple series of lines forming a grid. Today I want to do a quick demo...(read more)

"We're unable to find the SkyDrive folder" Because You Have Too Many Files

Chris Love — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:10:00 GMT

Lately the interest in cloud storage has captivated me. Google offering G Drive , Microsoft pushing SkyDrive more, DropBox offering more space when you get a friend to sign up ( hurry you can still sign up can get an extra 500MB at DropBox ), etc. Like...(read more)

How Does Honesty Affect Your Business?

Chris Love — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:06:02 GMT

The news about Yahoo's CEO Scott Thompson's resume 'fraud' has the tech and business world abuzz. Evidently Thompson's resume claims he earned a Computer Science degree that his college did not offer during his attendance. To his credit, he did take some...(read more)

Improve Mobile User Experience With an HTML5 Metro UI Tiles

Chris Love — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:32:20 GMT

If you know me you know over the past few years I have been a big fan of Metro UI and the tiles. I have been hacking at doing the Metro UI in web applications for a while now, so there are a lot of things I have learned, and some I have not quite mastered...(read more)

Displaying an Android Device's Screen on your Desktop

Chris Love — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:41:00 GMT

I do a lot of presentations and online demonstrations of mobile clients these days. That means I need to share screens from all sorts of devices. The problem is none of the major mobile platforms make this easy, but there are some hacks to get you there....(read more)

Making an HTML5 version of the Game Pente: Part 1

Chris Love — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:18:00 GMT

Recently I decided to help a very special 11 year old with a class project to write a video game. It takes me back to when I was 11 and wrote my first games. Of course back then I wrote in BASIC on my Timex Sinclaire 1000 and did my best to save...(read more)

Adding Expires Header in IIS 7

Chris Love — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:10:00 GMT

Yesterday I posted about including a favicon for every website or web application to increase performance. Another common oversight is not setting a far-future expires header expiration date. I think the Yahoo performance page says it really well why...(read more)