Raster Text In HTML5 Canvas
I love HTML5′s canvas. Armed with only a modern browser, we now have access to a plethora of drawing/imaging functionality with no third-party plugins required! However, life isn’t all sunshine and bikinis quite yet; echoed across the interwebs is one resounding cry: “drawText is performance murder.” Wouldn’t you know it, the new opensource project I [...]
Posted at 12pm on 9/12/11 | 5 comments | Filed Under: Code Tutorials | Tagged: Canvas, HTML5, Javascript, Raster | read on
User Activity Tracking in ASP.NET MVC3 via Global Filters
When designing enterprise applications I often run into the same request from the business: ‘user tracking.’ Who created this entity? What time? Why was this entity created (origin tracking)? In the past I have seen colleagues create additional columns, such as userId and creationTime, on every ‘trackable’ table in the system. At the time, this [...]
Posted at 3pm on 8/30/11 | 5 comments | Filed Under: Code Tutorials | Tagged: ActionFilterAttribute, ASP.NET, C#.NET, MVC3 | read on