Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.
1 min read Client-side , Tips and tricks

Earlier this year, Sayed and I released Web Developer Checklist to help web developer adhere to best practices. Checklists like these can be really helpful to make sure we don’t forget anything before releasing new or...

3 min read

When coding, I use both of my hands for typing and both my eyes fixed on the code I’m writing. When I don’t know a certain keyboard shortcut, I reach for the mouse and in doing so, look away from the main Visual Studio...

2 min read

Download Pretty Paste now! One of the things that have annoyed me about Visual Studio for many years, is the inconsistency when pasting code copied from websites. Depending on the browser you get different results...

1 min read Web Essentials

Recently, a lot of people have asked for Intellisense support for AngularJS in the Visual Studio HTML editor. The bad news is that there is no extensibility for providing additional HTML attribute Intellisense, so I...

1 min read Web Essentials , ASP.NET

Today the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 update was released. Go download it right now ! It contains a lot of new and updated Visual Studio tooling features including: First class LESS editor Knockout.js Intellisense Paste...

2 min read ASP.NET

Nerd alert : This post is only for crazy website performance freaks. Proceed at your own risk. The holy grail for us crazy website performance freaks is to reach a perfect score of 100/100 in Google Page Speed without...

1 min read ASP.NET

In the beginning of January, we released the Web Developer Checklist with great interest from the general web community. The checklist helps raising awareness of common best practices for building websites. It was always...

1 min read ASP.NET

Rule #1 in website optimization is to enable GZip compression on the web server. This is very easy using web.config as explained here . However, some web servers have disabled automatic compression of JavaScript files...

1 min read ASP.NET , Tips and tricks

So you just built a website and are about to make it public to the world. You go through a few checks to make sure that everything works as expected. Perhaps run HTML validation and other similar services. But are you...

2 min read Web Essentials

Many Web Essentials users have requested a more formal process around nightly builds, that should result in a better delivery and update mechanism. To make it really easy to always run the latest and greatest, I’ve now...