(John Papa) Model-View-ViewModel, data binding and separation of concerns are just some of the reasons that Knockout.js, which I introduced in a recent column (“2 Great JavaScript Data-Binding Libraries,” February 2012), has become a popular data-binding library in the Web community.

(Jani Giannoudis) HTML provides the noscript tag to handle an alternate content for users that have disabled scripts in their browser or have a browser that doesn’t support client-side scripting. However, there is no opposite tag available, which enables content that requires JavaScript.

(Alex Davies) I’ve just found something quite cool. It’s a code snippet that lets you use the real VS 11 C#5 compiler to write code that uses the async and await keywords, but to target .NET 4.0. It was published by Daniel Grunwald (from SharpDevelop).

(TheloniusFunk) In this programming tutorial you will learn how to work with the PHP array_combine function, which allows you to combine arrays into a single array.

(Richard Carr) Visual Studio’s debugging windows and tools allow you to examine in-scope objects and the values contained within their properties, indexers and fields. When this is undesirable, a class may change the way in which its debugging information is provided.

(Ben Nadel) For years, ColdFusion has had the hash() function for taking variable-length string data and creating one-way “fingerprints” of the original value. This function has changed over time to include algorithm and encoding options; but, it has always worked with string data.

(Brij) Security is always the one of the greatest concerns of Applications and when it comes to web applications, they are more prone to security breach. All the web technologies provides many features that are used to write secured web applications.

(Scott Hanselman) Often folks want to dynamically generate stuff with ASP.NET. The want to dynamically generate PDFs, GIFs, PNGs, CSVs, and lots more. It’s easy to do this, but there’s a few things to be aware of if you want to keep things as simple and scalable as possible.

(Ryan Boudreaux) Continuing in our jQuery tutorial, I will demonstrate filter functions with two examples, and then I’ll show you how to change an object’s content text.

(Andrey Tabachnik) There are many libraries to parse JSON formatted data, so why would we want to create another one?