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Moscow-Vladivostok: A virtual trip thanks to Google

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

While planning our trip to Moscow (by car) later this year, I came across a virtual trip from Moscow to Vladivostok with the help of Google Maps and YouTube.

The virtual trip consists of a video stream showing the view from a train while you can see the position on Google Maps. To make things more interesting, you can listen to the rumble of the train wheels, a Russian radio station, some balalaika music or one of the three Russian books.

It’s a joint project of Google and the Russian railways to promote the Trans Siberian Railway.

Well… we are planning to make the Trans Siberian journey in 2011, so this gives us a little taste of what we can expect.

You can enjoy the trip yourself at this page.

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Vici Project support has moved to StackExchange

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

We all love Stack Overflow, so when Joel Spolsky told the world that the platform would be made publicity available we move the Vici Project support to StackExchange.

All questions regarding Vici MVC, Vici CoolStorage, Vici Parser, Vici WinService and all other future Vici projects can be viewed and answered on http://vici.stackexchange.com.

The old http://support.viciproject.com URL will redirect you to the new support location.

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Developer Evangelism

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Yesterday I attended the StackOverflow DevDays in Amsterdam. Some minor attempts were made to put out the word of the Vici Project (and in particular Vici MVC).

A reply to a tweet of @B_Virtual lead us to this website: Developer Evangelism

We’ll be digging into the website and hopefully we can get some information that will help us spreading the word of “our” open-source project(s).

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Online SVG to PNG conversion

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Sometimes you need a PNG/JPG/TIFF version of a SVG file.

While there are lots of possible applications, this online tool will fit your needs most of the time: SVG to raster image conversion.

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Improve website page loading with Page Speed

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Thanks to a colleague I discovered Google’s Firefox add-on Page Speed. It helps you determine what you can do to improve the loading speed of you web pages.

Page Speed needs to be used in combination with the well known Firebug add-on.

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You want ASP.NET MVC? Choose Vici MVC!

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Yesterday, Philippe Leybaert released Vici MVC 2.0. This full-blown MVC framework for building ASP.NET web applications without using WebForms is now part of the open-source Vici Project.

Philippe describes Vici Project as follows: “The idea of the Vici Project is to provide .NET developers with a collection of lightweight libraries and frameworks, and at the same time get the community involved in the development and support of these libraries.”

The first sub-project of the Vici Project to be released is Vici MVC, formerly known as ProMesh.NET. Later this week, 2 other projects will be released as well: Vici Parser (formerly LazyParser.NET/SharpTemplate.NET) and Vici CoolStorage (formerly CoolStorage.NET).

I personally use Promesh.NET/Vici.Mvc with Coolstorage.NET/Vici.CoolStorage for some months now and I really enjoy developing web applications using this powerful framework.
After getting tired of using WebForms I’m happy that I now again have full control of my application! No more ViewState’s, no more “wanna-be-events”, …

Are you a .NET web developer? Get your ass over there and try out this wonderful products!

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CSS, Font and OS

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Which font is best supported across the main three operating systems (Linux, Mac and Windows)? A handy way to build a font stack for your website can be done with the Code Style Font Stack Builder.

Although I don’t think you have to pin yourself too much onto this numbers, it gives you some idea how widespread fonts like Arial, Verdana, Helvetica etc… are.

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Internet Explorer 8 and ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released on MIX09

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Well, well, well… Microsoft has released two new “things”…

First, you can all enjoy the official 1.0 release of ASP.NET MVC by downloading it from the Microsoft Download Center.

I must say that I’m not really thrilled about it, because I’m already enjoyng an excellent MVC framework for ASP.NET called ProMesh.NET. It’s lightweight, open source and a perfect match with the open source ORM CoolStorage.NET. Both projects will become part of the Vici Project collection of free tools.

Of course I’ll try out ASP.NET MVC, but I must say I expect it to be “too much, too heavy”. I like it to be no-nonsense and lightweight.

Second… The horror of Internet Explorer continues… Microsoft released the 8.0 version of their web browser. As a real opposer to Internet Explorer I will not install it to use as my daily web browser, but I need it to test my web applications. You want to download it and install it out of free will, please visit the Internet Explorer homepage.

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Site Compatibility and IE8

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

It’s always pain in the cock to get your (X)HTML/CSS design right in as many browsers as possible.

On the IEBlog, there is an article about IE8 and it’s Compatibility Mode. Main subject is of course the problems and differences it brings with it.

So, head over to the blog post and get your knowledge up to date. Spare yourself a few minutes/hours/days/… of frustration already!

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Pixels to Ems Conversion Table for CSS

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

This one comes in handy when you’re CSSing: http://jontangerine.com/silo/css/pixels-to-ems/

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