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Proportional image resizing is a fairly common scenario while developing an Android app: there are a number of situations where you might want an image to stretch itself to horizontally fit …
Android: proportionally stretch an ImageView to fit the whole screen width while maintaining its aspect ratio Read More
I've already covered the practical advantages of the code-first approach featured by Entity Framework 6 in a previous post: the key concept there was all about creating the whole data model starting …
Entity Framework Code-First: how to generate an auto-increment ID field Read MoreThe increasing need for speed in developing responsive, mobile-friendly websites recently shifted more and more web developers towards the use of some advanced CSS-based framework and/or boilerplate like Bootstrap, Foundation, Gumby, YAML, Skeleton and many others. Each one of them offers …
CSS namespaces: how to avoid conflict between style sheets files Read More
In the past few months we've seen the Bootstrap framework became more and more popular among web developers. The reasons are fairly obvious, we're talking about a powerful CSS/JS enhancement library featuring …
Using JQuery UI and Bootstrap togheter in the same web page Read More
WordPress 4.1 is now live! With the brand-new Twenty Fifteen theme widely adopted by many blog and websites, the Infinite Scroll Jetpack module is becoming more and more popular (if you don't know what we're talking …
WordPress: customizing the Jetpack Infinite Scroll Footer plugin module Read MoreOne of the most interesting features of the WordPress platform is the Hook capability, which can be easily used to any developer in order to add new features to themes and plugin. There are …
Adding custom Actions and Filters to your WordPress blog Read MoreIf you installed WinCache on your web server (hopefully thanks to our previously posted guide) and you would like to know more about what's happening behind the curtains, you can install this neat script to …
PHP & WinCache: a GUI to display statistics and usage info Read MoreThe most crippling bottleneck for many PHP-based software is almost always related to memory consumption. The PHP command interpreter does an excellent job for any low-traffic website, but when your …
PHP: How to install WinCache on IIS to improve performances Read More
To keep (or to say it better, to recover) the page scrollbar position after a postback is definitely a feature any form-containing page should have. This used to be a trival task for …
ASP.NET - MantainScrollPositionOnPostback for Chrome and most recent browsers Read MoreAny Android developers who chose to not adopt Android Studio and continue using Eclipse will eventually face the dreadful problem of the workspace not loading properly. The most common jobs who tend to …
Android SDK: when Eclipse hangs on "Resolving error markers" or "Android SDK Content Loader" Read More