Sriram Alagappa's blog: knockout

1.we will going with Single App Page (SPA application based on KnockoutJS)
2. A complete rewrite
3. HTML5 + flex
4. NPAPI plugin
5. Daunting task on both front end and backend
6. Backend fully .NET Stack, Web api, SQL server, IIS

Single Page Apps Design

Library Name	Purpose
http://lesscss.org/	for easy CSS
http://modernizr.com/	detect browser feature,version and type
http://html5boilerplate.com/	To kick start our html5 development
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/	for targeting multiple screens
http://jquery.com/
http://knockoutjs.com/	MVVM Pattern for client side Java Script
http://amplifyjs.com/	webstorage
http://sammyjs.org/	Nav/History
http://requirejs.org/	Dependency Resolution
http://underscorejs.org/	Javascript Helper Library
http://momentjs.com/	Javascript easy Date Parsing
http://qunitjs.com/	Qunit

Responsive Testing Tools

http://www.electricplum.com/	test various screen and devices
http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/	Resize window to exact size
http://www.responsinator.com/	To check how the site behaves under various resolution and devices
http://www.benjaminkeen.com/open-source-projects/smaller-projects/responsive-design-bookmarklet/	To check how the site behaves under various resolution and devices

SQL Server Local VS express VS compact vs Server

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jerrynixon/archive/2012/02/26/sql-express-v-localdb-v-sql-compact-edition.aspx

Tools

GIT : http://msysgit.github.com/

ORM Framework Selection

Framework		Notes
Dapper (MicroORM)	http://stackoverflow.com/tags/dapper/info	Good Performance and supported by community
LinqSQL
EntityFramework		10x Slow compared to Hand Coding and memory intensive