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The dynamic stylesheet language. LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both the client-side (IE 6+, Webkit, Firefox) and server-side, with Node.js.

Di Concepts

This is a great article on Dependency Injection and what it means

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

I've decided this is a page I need bookmarked - probably useful to go through it each morning :)

The goal of JsTestDriver is to build a JavaScript test runner which: easily integrates with continuous builds systems andallows running tests on multiple browsers quickly to ease TDD style development.

Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing your JavaScript code. It does not depend on any other JavaScript frameworks. It does not require a DOM. And it has a clean, obvious syntax so that you can easily write tests.

AmplifyJS is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API. Amplify's goal is to simplify all forms of data handling by providing a unified API for various data sources. Amplify's store component handles persistent client-side storage, using standards like localStorage and sessionStorage, but falling back on non-standard implementations for older browsers. Amplify's request adds some additional features to jQuery's ajax method while abstracting away the underlying data source.

Cool MVC debug tool

"TekPub is an interesting study in a company who started on ASP.NET MVC and quickly moved to Ruby on Rails. InfoQ had the opportunity to talk with Rob and James about TekPub and their journey from using ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails."

Quite a thought provoking interview for us .Net veterans.

" Naked Objects takes a domain object model, written as POCOs but following a few very simple conventions, and dynamically creates one or more complete user interfaces for it, using reflection (not 'code generation' or 'scaffolding'). It is highly effective in support of Domain-Driven Design, OO Modelling, and/or Agile Development. Naked Objects MVC builds upon the core framework to create a complete web-based user interface, using ASP.NET MVC 3. The generic user interface may be customised via the .CSS, by adding custom views, or custom controllers, as needed. Entity Framework is used to persist objects on a database. Security may be handled simply via Forms Authentication and attribute-based authorisation, or more comprehensively via Microsoft WIF and an STS. "

"Optimizing application performance is a key element for business. There are several ways by which we can optimize the applications performance. It can be done either by server side code optimization, caching or some client side optimization. In this post I am going to discuss about one handy and smart way to optimize web applications performance using Bundling and Minification features which is introduced with ASP.NET 4.5 Developer Preview. ASP.NET 4.5 Developer Preview introduced bundling, which combines multiple JavaScript files for faster loading with less number of requests for download and minification, which reduces the size of JavaScript and CSS files by removing unneeded characters . Combination of these bundling and minification helps web pages to load very faster. Let's have a looks how it works."

"jQuery's $(document).ready() event is something that you probably learned about in your earliest exposure to jQuery and then rarely thought about again. The way it abstracts away DOM timing issues is like a warm security blanket for code running in a variety of cold, harsh browser windows."

"What Firebug is for the client, Glimpse does for the server... in other words, a client side Glimpse into whats going on in your server."

"A new ASP.NET MVC project includes preconfigured Membership, Profile and RoleManager providers right out of the box. Try it yourself - create a ASP.NET MVC application, crack open the web.config file and have a look. "