Mohamed Salem Korayem's Blog

The folks at mashable have compiled a comprehensive  list of good .net resource websites. Sadl, they didnt include great websites like dotnetkicks and dotnetslackers.

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"Microsoft is going to be letting developers take a look at the source code for .NET, but for those of you still in the trenches, coding away, we’ve gathered 25+ tools to help you with your daily tasks."

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As for the theme, it will be added to the available themes for BlogEngine.NET.

Mads Kristensen has requested from the open-source community to aid the BlogEngine.NET team in localization and in adding more themes.

I had two ways to contribute back (in case you didn't notice this blog is running on BlogEngine.NET). The first was through creating an Arabic translation resource file to be used for localization. And the second was by sharing the theme I am currently using which I adapted Non Zero theme manually.

Arabic Localization for BlogEngine.NET 1.2: download here. I will try to maintain it in the future Inshallah.

NonZero Theme for BlogEngine.NET 1.1: downloading here.

I know that this contribution, plus my help in the wiki, is nothing compared to what the whole team of BlogEngine.NET is doing, but it makes me sleep better at night ;) 

I just hope that both of those contributions make it on time for the next release. It's due to TODAY.

In a very smart move by Gavin Joyce, dotnetkicks creator, the full source-code of the website is now public on GoogleCode and you can Checkout the code from it's SVN repository.

This move will make things much better as the website lacked a lot of important features that the community will now have the opportunity to add quickly.

To me, this is the first time I've seen anything like that. No website that offered a certain service to the people (example: facebook, digg, etc..) had it's own source code available to the public to enhance and update. The only 'open' thing about some websites is their APIs that you can leverage in your own application.

So far, Gavin didn't announce his plans on how persons will be able to update the actual website, but so far, running dotnetkicks locally is just good to see in your local computer ;)

I had a couple of div's that show their CSS styles according to an imported css file. However, during Javascript manipulation using jQuery, a lot of styles are attached in the 'style' attribute of the div and the latter overrides the CSS defined in imported file.

I wanted to clear all those styles defined as an attribute. The easiest way is to simply use the '*' as a means to choose all defined styles and set them all to an empty value of ''. Example:

 $('#myElem').attr('style', ''); //Select all '*' css styles defined as an attribute of #myElem's and set them to an empty value

 I was about to write a for-loop when I thought about this nifty solution.

NOTE: In case you're wondering what Javascript notation is that; I am using jQuery library. A similar method should be available in other Javascript Frameworks like prototype.