Visual Studio
When coding in JavaScript, I prefer using Visual Studio IDE due to its JavaScript IntelliSense and debugging capabilities. But recently, when I started to experiment with canvas, I noticed something strange. As you might know, to draw and manipulate graphics on canvas element, you first need to get the canvas context. In some instances, the IntelliSense is not working on canvas context and as a result, the list of suggestions is missing all the context methods and properties you would expect. This article will show how to fix that.
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Other
Recently I started to learn how to use canvas HTML5 element and the first thing I tried to do was to draw a small rectangle. Next I wanted to an add animation loop and move that shape. After that worked, I wanted to add a bunch of them all moving in different directions and this is how my first particle system was born. This article will show you how to create one yourself. The particle system is a pretty basic one. Each particle gets a random color, random direction and random speed when they are created. After they reach the edge of the canvas, they will bounce off of it.
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WordPress
Recently I modified a style of my tag cloud widget in a way, so it is less of a "cloud" and more of a list of tags with each tag in its own lines. With so much empty space on the right side of the tag, I wanted to add additional information to the visitors besides the name by showing tag's count number of posts. I expected that the parameter for this behavior would already exist, but it turned out it doesn’t after looking at wp_tag_cloud function, which lists all parameters. Luckily, there is a filter available which we can use to make this work and is the topic of this article.
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WordPress
If you were making changes to the WordPress site theme and the admin bar (also known as a toolbar) suddenly disappeared, you are not alone. This happened to me too. I noticed that the admin bar at the top of the page was missing on the front-end after making some changes on my theme. The admin panel was still accessible through /wp-admin/ path and inside the dashboard, the admin bar was not broken. In this post I will show you why this happens and how to bring it back.
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WordPress
Tag Cloud Widget gives visitors ability to browse different topics based on tags on your site. Recently I wanted to customize it a little for this site and assumed the widget itself would give you these settings, but you can only edit the most basic parameters. Instead of widgets, we can display the tag using WordPress function wp_tag_cloud in the template, which supports more parameters. But what if we want to use existing cloud tag widget? Luckily, there is a filter available that allows you to do that and is the topic of this article.
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WordPress
When you need a free plugin that would make your WordPress site multilingual, qTranslate-X is a way to go. It works great, but you might encounter a problem when trying to have multiple language support for attributes of Featured Image also known as Post Thumbnails. If you try to insert qTranslate language tags in Title, Description, Caption, and most importantly Alternative Text, you might notice that nothing gets translated when the_post_thumbnail() is called.
This article will show you how to make those fields multilingual.
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.NET
Recently I wanted to save DataTable data into database. I assumed this would be easy using Entity Framework, but it turns out it is not, since DataTable consists of rows and columns while the Entity Framework deals with objects. Another way is to use ADO.NET by iterating through the rows in the DataTable and insert each row using SqlCommand and INSERT statement, but there is an easier way to accomplish this and that is by using SqlBulkCopy class, which is the focus of this article.
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