December 29, 2014 by Christopher Sherman
Websites and services on free and shared tiers of Microsoft Azure (and most other cloud providers) will idle your application after 20 minutes of inactivity to save resources. Unfortunately a “cold” application will take some time to spin up, resulting in a sub par experience for your visitors.
December 24, 2014 by Christopher Sherman
When creating an Azure Cloud Service, you may want to enable HTTPS for testing prior to obtaining a security certificate from a certificate authority. To do this, you can generate a self-signed certificate. Note that since the certificate is self-signed, it will generate a security warning in the browser and is generally not suitable for production.
December 23, 2014 by Christopher Sherman
Font Awesome has a massive collection of icon fonts and is widely used across the web. You may wish you use it in place of the Foundation font library, and in this tutorial I will explain how. I will assume you have followed the instructions for installing Foundation as a Libsass project.
December 22, 2014 by Christopher Sherman
Have you ever visited a website and started scrolling down the page only to have the content suddenly jump? You lose your position on the page and are left to search up and down to find your place again. For devices with slow connections, this can occur multiple times, becoming especially frustrating.
December 19, 2014 by Christopher Sherman
If you’ve used Foundation’s Orbit image slider, you have seen the clean, opaque captions the JavaScript overlays on your images. Unfortunately, the framework doesn’t provide styles for overlaying a similar caption on images that do not utilize Orbit. Let’s go ahead and add this.
December 18, 2014 by Christopher Sherman
Setting up Foundation as a Libsass project can be confusing, especially if you’re not familiar with Node, Grunt, Bower and Git. I found quite a bit of discussion on how best to go about configuring everything but no definitive answer bubbled to the surface. In the following tutorial I’ll provide a set up that’s worked for me.
We’ll begin with a freshly created, Foundation Libsass project. The Foundation documentation does a good job explaining how to set this up, so I’ll refer you to that if you need instructions.
December 17, 2014 by Christopher Sherman
Foundation’s Interchange is a responsive content solution that enables resource requests to adapt according to available screen real estate. Images are a particularly applicable use-case for Interchange since a massive, landscape photo doesn’t have the same effect on a phone as on a 27-inch monitor.
December 16, 2014 by Christopher Sherman
The Microsoft ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework improves the performance and reliability of your application through bundling, minification and versioning of your web resources. Bundling multiple scripts or stylesheets into one resource saves overhead by requiring browsers to make fewer HTTP requests; minification entails shortening the variable names and eliminating whitespace in your resources, thereby reducing file size; appending a version to your bundles ensures visitors to your site will use the current resources rather than stale, cached versions with the same file name.