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Using FontAwesome Fonts for HTML Radio Buttons and Checkboxes



Spruce up your boring checkboxes and radio buttons with custom FontAwesome symbols using a little bit of CSS. If you're tired of boring checkboxes and radio buttons, or you simply want a more consistent look of these controls across browsers and controls check out FontAwesome to provide you with customizable checks and boxes to use for selection boxes. In this post I'll show how to use pure CSS to set up FontAwesome checkboxes and radios and talk about a few gotchas I ran into along the way.

Back to Basics: UTC and TimeZones in .NET Web Apps



Storing dates in persistent storage using UTC dates is a widely accepted best practice. But it's surprisingly complex using date data effectively if you want to let the user see dates and query data in their local time zone. Looking around I noticed that there's not a lot of comprehensive info on this topic, so I decided to take notes and write down some of the approaches I've used in this post. This post combines and overview and a number of helper routines specifically geared towards user timezone adjustments in typical ASP.NET Web applications.

Adding non-NuGet references to the new vNext Projects



vNext projects depend on NuGet packages to reference external dependencies. But vNext projects also support 'classic' .NET targets and the Full CLR vNext both of which support and even require assembly references in order to access core .NET functionality. In this short post I describe how you can reference external assemblies in non-vNext and FullClr vNext targets in vNext projects.

Azure VM Blues: Fighting a losing Performance Battle



I’ve been looking at Azure for a long time, hearing all the glowing reports about how well integrated the platform is and how easy it is to move things get up and running. I’ve been contemplating moving to some sort of virtual host from my current physical server setup as I can certainly see the appeal of having a managed platform that can be remotely administered, re-configured on the fly if...
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