I was searching the web for some neat ideas and I came across this intriguing jQuery plugin that allows you to embed a YouTube video on your website. No, not the standard player, but instead the video is your background. Similar to how you would use an image or color, the YouTube video plays automatically in full screen as the background of your website; here is a demo of the plugin.
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Custom Knockout js binding to confirm before variable change
Having a user confirm a selection is a very common occurrence when an action is performed. In this Knockout js tutorial I’m going to demonstrate how to ask the user to confirm their choice. Only when the user has clicked OK will the observable value be changed. This example will leverage the ko.extender to create a custom Knockout extender.
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Integrating with Twilio using C#
I like when integrations like Twilio are simple and straightforward. I recently had the privilege of implementing it for my company. For my implementation I have a couple of special requirements that I think makes my solution better than just referencing a NuGet package and calling MessageResource.Create.
My requirements require creating user controlled text messaging templates and customer controlled enabling/disabling of one or more text messages. Let’s get started.
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Create MVC DropDownList from an Enum
Like many requested features, MVC 5 now has a built-in function to provide an Enum object and automatically build a dropdown list using the standard HtmlHelper. If you’re unfortunate and on an older version of MVC, here is an HtmlExtension that performs the same thing.
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Using ActionFilterAttribute to validate all form input
I’m a big fan of using ActionFilterAttribute to apply a global filter on every single ASP.NET MVC request. I am going to create a custom filter that will implement ActionFilterAttribute to validate that the ModelState is valid for all POST or PUT requests.