Xillent Studios have just settled into another design lab right off of the San Francisco Bay Bridge in SOMA. There are many new web designs coming out from our design lab. This new location is located off of 3rd Street about 100 feet from Wired magazine and within walking distance to MOMA museum.  If you are [...]

Hope everyone is resting up this weekend and enjoying the coming Monday not working. Those of you who still have to work on Monday should go and ask your boss for that day off. If your boss says “NO” then there must be some good reasons behind it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. day [...]

Recently, Haiti was hit with an 7.0 earthquake. Bill Clinton and Wyclef Jean have made it easy to make contribution to this region and its victims.
To donate $5, text “Yele” to 501501 and $5 will be charged to your phone bill – Wyclef Jean’s foundation
To donate $10, text “HAITI” to 20222 – Bill Clinton

Xillent is launching a new web service that allows its clients to synchronize their transactions with their online quickbooks. It will be hosted on Xillent domain and would transverse between its clients shopping cart and the clients online Quickbooks account. This will make book keeping a lot simpler for a lot of website that has [...]

After spending the last 2 months finishing up some work on several projects, I find myself looking back at some of these projects and estimating which project will take off more than others. Even when we thought that we have not done much in the last year I believe that we have done a lot. [...]

Xillent is proud to be releasing its gym software for online uses. We have been working in the sport/entertainment industry for almost a decade and compiled a solution for gym and mma school owners. This martial arts software includes the following features:
1.) Unique Clean and Crisp Gym Design
2.) Membership Management
3.) Classes Management
4.) Instructors Page
5.) [...]

We are the best in the MMA industry when it comes to websites and MMA templates creation. Sometimes our new clients are much satisfied to know that they are working with knowledgeable professionals in their industry. It is perfect to have our team who knows what our clients want out from his MMA website than [...]

Goal: Build an accordion style toggle for a page with multiple info boxes.
Example: http://www.xillent.com/pipeline/sales_info.asp?cid=29
First Attempt: Use jquery script:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#ContentWrapper div.AccordionHeader").click(function() {
$(this).next("div.ContentBody").slideToggle(300).siblings("div.ContentBody").slideUp("slow");
});
});
</script>

Problem with First Attempt: We want the image inside the header to show “minus” when we click on it. However, the image inside the header does not change and always shows “plus.”
We tried [...]

PROBLEM:
How to create a session control that automatically logs out the users when the session times out?
In ASP, even when the session has timed out, you will still stay on the same page unless you request a new page. This can be an issue if the user is on a public computer.
SOLUTION:
We created a script [...]

Have you ever had a collection (it doesn’t matter what kind of collection), and done some filtering on it using LINQ methods? For example, the following:

List<product> products = GetAllProducts();
var inStock = products.Where(p => p.Qty > 0);
foreach(Product p in inStock)
{
//dosomething with the products
}

This is a pretty common usage of the LINQ extension method Where(). [...]