Yay, I just launched a project. It’s an internal single page application. On the server side a restful api built with ServiceStack serving json data and files (reports in PDF format and images) on a separate service-address (cross domain). And a client side application primarily for iPads, but built with Html5 for wider platform reach […]
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Trying out Azure Mobile Services to create a rest api and a Facebook authenticated web app
February 26, 2013 
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I heard about Azure Mobile Services on Yet Another Podcast #86 where Jesse Liberty interviews Josh Twist. There was a few things to the service that made me very interested: Azure Mobile Services Inside the Azure portal Easy to setup a robust Restful API over an accompanying Azure SQL database With permissions per user, extensible […]
Read moreFun stuff : node.js in an Umbraco site
February 18, 2013 0 Comments
Did you ever want to run node.js within your umbraco site, and edit the server side javascript from within your Umbraco backend? Not? Well, it’s still a fun thing to do, don’t you think? Update 1: I actually think nodejs makes some sense within Umbraco. Why? Well, for example it makes it possible for js-peeps […]
Read moreA first look at how to use AmplifyJs to simplify coding of server requests
November 23, 2012 0 Comments
When coding web UI’s it’s not always we have the server API finished and ready to use. And even if we have it it’s nice to be able to mimic server behaviour so we can focus and test our UI code isolated. Therefore it’s nice to abstract server calling functions from actual Ajax code with […]
Read moreSimple client side routes and content loading in Umbraco
September 21, 2012 1 Comment
Do you like your users to be able to load subcontent on a page dynamically and support client side url’s (which in turn enables browser history, url-copy&pasting and bookmarks)? In this post I will show how you can do it in a very flexible way with the help of Backbone.js and a minimum of code. […]
Read moreA first look at SlickGrid with read, insert and update (in WebMatrix)
July 3, 2011 4 Comments
A few days ago I had a quick look at Flexigrid and I planned to continue with it to enable updates. However when I searched a bit further I got recommendations to use SlickGrid instead and so I did. As with my Flexigrid post this post is based on what I learned in a short […]
Read moreA first look at Flexigrid (using it with WebMatrix and Json)
July 1, 2011 3 Comments
We all need a nice grid to display data from time to time. I found out at Stackoverflow that Flexigrid has some popularity and the images I saw of Flexigrid in action impressed me. This is a brief introduction post describing a way to use it for basic display of data in a WebMatrix (WebPages) […]
Read moreFun with CoffeeScript, jStorage and jQuery
March 13, 2011 1 Comment
Local storage I wanted to try browser local storage possibilities. I found that jStorage is a no brainer to use and works in most browsers (IE6+ (bigger storage size in IE8+), Chrome 4+. Firefox 2+, Safari 4+, Opera 10.50+): Set value Get value And yes it preserves data over browser restarts, and deleted cookies. CoffeeScript […]
Read more5 min: WebMatrix + jQuery UI + json + jQuery templates
January 30, 2011 7 Comments
Lets use WebMatrix to create a very basic db – > ui sample using jQuery goodness. We’ll get from 0 to a working sample in five minutes (more or less). 1. The WebMatrix site First create a new site in WebMatrix using the Empty site template. 2. Database Next define a Sql CE database file, […]
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