The other day I was looking for the HTML code for the ⌘ (in case you can't see it, that's the command key symbol), found in mac keyboards. It was not the first time I was looking for the HTML code for one of those funky characters. I remember having a hard time trying to represent some Math symbols...
Being a Portuguese-speaking person living in the US, one of the things you have to get used to is the keyboard physical layout and key mappings. You know, Latin-originated languages tend to have thôse wéìrd chãraçtërs , which are really just diacritical marks applied to regular...
In the last few months I have been using my MacBook to give presentation, both at work and not. I've been meaning to buy one of those presenter remotes. I even got to borrow one and tried it once and I must say it worked pretty well. Then I remembered that the MacBook came with that useless remote...
The other day I came across this post in Marteen Balliauw's blog where he demonstrates and interesting way to make the same ASP.NET MVC view render correctly from both a regular request and an Ajax request. In Marteen's post he uses a custom ActionFilterAttribute to detect the Ajax call and replace...
Still in the topic of performance, I'll throw a little freebie. Visual Studio seems to take an inordinate amount of time to open .aspx files for the first time. I noticed that the status bar read "Initializing toolbox..." for a long time. I'm mentioning .aspx but it really applies to...