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Let’s Go Video: Whats New in VS Code for Go

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Slide Show Karaoke

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Writing an x86 "Hello world" bootloader with assembly

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Firefox day 3: Details

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JavaScript in parallel

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HTML, DOM and JavaScript unraveled

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Slick and slf4j MDC logging in Scala

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Five rules to stay sane and efficient when handling downtimes

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Hello! This one is working: https://https;//bit.ly/go-pwa-slack

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Service workers: beware Safari's range request

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Techniques for animating on the canvas in React

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Implementing one time passwords in Crystal

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Git commands to keep a fork up to date

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Spring clean your dev machine

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Use the web share API easily with web components

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CSS: select first-of-class with the subsequent sibling combinator

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A 10-minute primer to Service Workers

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How to use environment variables to configure your Angular application without a rebuild

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The 7-step process of Angular router navigation

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Simple metaphor to easily understand and remember how token-based authentication works

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How to configure your AngularJS application using environment variables

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How to properly integrate non-AngularJS libraries in your AngularJS application

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How I optimized Minesweeper using Angular 2 and Immutable.js to make it insanely fast

In my previous article I showed you how to build Minesweeper using Angular 2 and Immutable.js. You ca

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How to use areas and border states to control access inside an Angular application with ui-router

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Update to Angular Version 8 now!

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Introduction to Angular Elements

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Setup your Workstation for JavaScript Development

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A step-by-step guide to integrating a third party widget with Angular

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In-depth: How do CDK Portals work?

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Deploying: Git vs. TFS Showdown

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Lessons Learned: Don't Expose EF Entities to the Client Directly

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Fluent Conference: JavaScript & Beyond Complete Video Compilation by O'Reilly Media

Missed this years Fluent Conference in San Francisco? Then this amazing video compilation is probably

Jasmine - An Introduction

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git tf - An Early View

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If you are a JavaScript newbie eager to dive into creating rich mobile web applications, this book is

Entity Framework Schema Translations

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Testing and the Single Responsibility Principle

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Why $.extend(someObj, anotherObj) might be dangerous!

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Strange Error When Downloading File in IE8 from SSL Site

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Choose Your Commit Messages Properly

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Detecting Location Redirects from JavaScript

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Scaling Android Emulator Size: Without using Eclipse

As you might have read following my previous post I'm currently experimenting with mobile web so

HTML5 vs Android: Apps or Web for mobile development??

This is a hotly discussed topic recently. The web is now a fully-capable platform and it's getting be

Using NuGet to Distribute Our Company Internal DLLs

Releasing new software has to be simple and super fast! That was not the case for our company-interna

Respecting "the Zone"

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Erik Dörnenburg answers: What is Enterprise and Evolutionary Architecture?, discussing 4 issues: Turn

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You develop a webapp, you have a couple of input fields and buttons on your page. Then the requiremen

Sequential Asynchronous Processing with jQuery Deferreds

Asynchronous processing is one of the most difficult things for devs to understand when switching fro

ASP.net MVC3: Doesn't Deserialize Nullable Properties from Json

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Eclipse: Importing existing project: "Invalid project description"

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Don't Fall into the IEnumerable<T> Trap

Recently I upgraded some code of our company-internal class library and observed a plausible but stil

Help, Ubuntu 11.10 won't boot!!

Today I tried to start the new Ubuntu 11.10 from the live CD on the old desktop computer of my girlfr

2011 Retrospective and a New Look

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Using a dependency injection framework can greatly facilitate your code's testability in that yo

Exploring JavaScript: Scope Pollution when instantiating JavaScript Objects

John Resig has written a very interesting article (I'm not able to find just now) on how the current

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Use The "var" Keyword to Have More Maintainable Tests!?

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TechVid: Become a Javascript Console Power-User

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The Similarity of C# and JavaScript Syntax

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Today, I started to create a couple of JSP pages for the server-side part of my MSc thesis project in

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This Smelly Code post discusses mainly a testability issue without going into further detail on other

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Today I took the chance (and a bit of free time) to upgrade to the latest Android SDK release, namely

HowTo: Using VS2010 Web.config Transformations to Bypass SSL Authentication Locally

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Smelly Code: Eager Test

This post shows a common code smell in unit tests also mentioned in the xunit test patterns book, nam

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Design Tech Talk Series Presents: OO Design for Testability

One of the main challenges in adopting TDD methodologies and automated testing with xUnit frameworks

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Recently I had an interesting buzz conversation with a former work-mate, Peter. Just like myself

HowTo: Teach Visual Studio to Remember Your TFS Password

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A quick post just before diving into the weekend filled with Yoseikan training, swimming, going out w

Passing Property Names the "compiler-safe" Way

A common bad practice which I often find when browsing through code is to see people directly hard-co

HowTo: Install your Android app OTA on your device for testing

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Practical example: Applying the Template Method design pattern

As I already mentioned in my previous post I'm currently doing domain objects to XSD generated object

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Currently I'm doing a rather monotonic work, let's call it like this. We basically need to serialize

Let tests guide you through development

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Android Instrumentation test - AndroidTestCase: java.lang.IllegalAccessError

Today I started writing the instrumentation tests for the Android platform side of the project. For y

HowTo: Get an Android app's database from the emulator

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As I already highlighted in several previous posts one of the most critical things when facing unit t

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A major aim of everyone is (or should be) to increase his personal productivity. Now productivity is

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HowTo: Prevent Visual Studio from auto-formatting your jQuery source

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Today I wrote on a first prototype for my current thesis research. I started coding just ahead howeve

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I just had to fight with a strange exception which got raised after a GWT-RPC call to the App Engine

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Today I made a quick change to my blog. I don't know whether many of my readers noticed the possibili

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HowTo: Include JavaScript file from JavaScript code

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HowTo: Get the selected list index on Android Activity from context menu event

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HowTo: Run IIS 7 on Vista 64bit OS in 32bit mode

A couple of days ago, I ran into a nice problem. I had to configure the setup of a new project using

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Are C# regions a good thing??

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Is it good to have a lot of code comments, explaining things s.t. your other team members know what w

Watch out when cloning objects

Cloning is never a good thing. I would say in most cases there is a better alternative for reaching y

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Writing unit test and moreover having them in place when developing is a great thing. They give you s

Don't use negated method names!

What does this mean. Don't write something likepublic bool IsNotCorrect(...){...}but rather writepubl

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When programming, there is often the the situation where you have to continuously do the null-check i

HowTo: Control the rendered Html tag on your custom, composite server controls

Normally when you want to achieve that your custom server control is rendered inside a specific HTML

HowTo: Changing TFS workitem type from task to bug

Recently I found a bug while implementing another feature and in order to not forget it, I created a

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Using code metrics as indicator for code refactoring

Developing software is not just hacking in a solution, but to develop simple, well structured and the

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If you get the following error...Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by

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I'm currently developing some custom ASP.net server controls. Internally I often have lists, where th

Automatically find the Label associated to a WebControl through the AssociatedControlID

ASP.net Label controls own the property "AssociatedControlID" which points to the control to which th

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I recently faced the problem that the background images that have been added to an HTML li tag over C

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J2ME provides several ways for creating an Image object: Image.createImage(String) Image.createImage(

Do you know the "Joel Test"?

First of all, who is "Joel"? Joel Spolsky is a software developer in the US. I came across his intere

About Scrum - in under 10 minutes

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HowTo: Getting started with JUnit testing for Liferay portlets with Netbeans (for Eclipse users)

Besides at work, where I'm developing in .Net using Visual Studio, I'm a heavy Eclipse user. I use it

Page Speed: Firebug add-on for analyzing web page speed

Google just released Page Speed, a Firefox add-on for analyzing web pages in terms of speed. The tool

HowTo: Keep request parameters on validation errors with Spring's SimpleFormController

I recently had a problem when using Spring's SimpleFormController together with validation. So I post

HowTo: Get localized string different from the current culture

Localization is a key part of most applications. For this purpose you usually use resource files (pro

What happens if you think in Java and program C#

I'm quite jumping between the two languages. In the morning at the university I'm usually programming

Use Google Scholar and Latex for correctly citing papers

Citing papers is somewhat critical. There are predefined styles that have/should be respected. But it

JsTestDriver - Easy unit testing for JavaScript code

Today this video got my attention which is basically a short demo of JsTestDriver, a nice implementat

Help, my MSTest DeploymentItem doesn't get deployed!

MSTests allow you to define items you'd like to deploy to the deployment directory when executing the

String enumerations in C#

Enumerations are a very handy programming construct. Especially when you're developing in a larger te

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Years ago I installed the Intel ProSet Wireless tool for managing my wireless network connections on

Debugging and Testing the Web with Firebug

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HowTo: Make your custom ASP.net server control validatable

Content validation is a major issue of every application. It is an absolute "must have" to notify the

jQuery plugin development pattern

I'm currently diving more and more into the jQuery library. First I'm using it on a portlet I'm devel

Use Firebug everywhere!

You're a web developer and you cannot live without Firebug? Understandable. Firebug provides such gre

Best practices: The challenge of designing software for wireless devices

Designing good software for wireless devices such as mobile phones is not straightforward. Developers

HowTo: Bind an input field to a Date property using Spring's SimpleFormController

If you're using the Spring SimpleFormController for binding your Java bean object to the UI, you may

Internet Explorer 8: Compatibility

Here's an article written by Pietro Brambati on his blog about IE8 compatibility. It's quite interest

These damn spammers!!!

Once again one of my blog posts got infected by "spam" comments. But this time not the usual pharmace

Extended view reloaded

With the transition to the complete new blog design I initially had to leave away some features which

Best practices: Deploying webapps (contd.)

Some time ago I've written a post about best practices in deploying web applications by mentioning th

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From now and then I have to create UML diagrams to model certain parts of software projects, especial

Floating figures and tables with Latex

Latex provides you with a lot of advantages when writing scientific papers. It allows you to fully fo

Problems with character encoding on cookies

For preserving the search criteria on some page of our web application we're saving the differen

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Guidelines for promoting your blog

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This post is somehow related to the one I made just a couple of days ago. The application plugins (dl

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I just noticed that I did not post one topic about mobile development with J2ME, and that although my

HowTo: Detect Assembly dependencies at runtime

I'm currently developing a small project for myself, where I'm trying to build a small plugin framewo

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Today at work I observed a quite "nice" behaviour of the ASP.net DropDown list control. We usually ha

Google AJAX APIs: The Google Visualization API

From now and then I'm always taking a quick look at Google's API page to see whether something new an

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For the "Data Mining and Data Warehousing" course at the university, we had to implement a spectral c

HowTo: Persist viewstate on the server-side

In our last web project we had some performance issues, mainly caused by the extremely big page views

Accidentally deleted the Ubuntu main menu bar!!

I just clicked accidentally on the main top panel on the Ubuntu desktop and damn...I deleted the menu

HowTo: testing jFace Action class taking a StructuredSelection object

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Accessing webcontrols inside the ProgressTemplate of an UpdateProgress

Apparently it is not possible to access server-side web controls that are within the "ProgressTemplat

Best practices: Tracking information on the source code with Visual Studio and TFS

An issue in managing a code base is not only to guide different developers through the development pr

By far the best "404 Not Found" notification I've ever seen!!

I just wanted to download a zip-file from a url provided by one of my university professors, but sadl

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First of all, happy new year 2009, I wish you all the best! :) This is a scheduled post of course :D

First steps with Silverlight. What about GWT?

Last week I had some time which allowed me to do some experiments with Microsoft Silverlight. I had t

Using extenders to abstract details and improve code readability

Extenders are a really cool feature of C#, which can be quite handy sometimes. I found the following

C++ linking libraries to build configuration in Eclipse

When programming in C++ you may often have to link at compile time to 3rd-party libraries which you'r

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Most of the courses I attended during my Bachelor were Java oriented with some C#, C and Haskell prog

JFace Table API with Eclipse RCP

Today I had to create a new view inside on an Eclipse RCP application representing data inside a tabl

Haskell type conversions: converting a String to Int

Today I just finished my battle-ship game written completely in functional programming (using Haskell

Persisting the current perspective state of an RCP

If you're developing on Eclipse RCP applications it may be interesting to save the perspective layout

Creating "soft-links" to folders on Linux

If you're working on Linux, especially on the command line, you'll often have to navigate through a l

HowTo: execute a file download from Windows command line

Under Linux it is often very comfortable to download files quickly from within the shell by typing wg

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For some university course we currently have to modify an Open Source application with LOC > 50,00

Strange focus behavior on Firefox 3+

Apparently it seems as if Firefox has changed the way the focus is set on the page starting with vers

Verifying command line parameters on C++ main method

Just a very quick example on how to verify the correct number of command-line parameters on a C++ (or

Problem: launching javascript from hyperlinks without redirecting

When I'm launching javascripts on a webpage I often use hyperlinks instead of buttons (it depends how

Javaforge causing a lot of problems

I'm currently developing an open source application for a University course. So as usually I establis

C/C++ programming on Linux

For a course at the university we have to develop a system using C++ on Linux. Being from the Java an

Haskell functional programming

Did you ever hear something about functional programming? I'm sure you did, and if you didn't you sho

Linux main menu bars (top and bottom) disappeared

Linux (Ubuntu) is generally great...and still I must admit that most often ones habits are stronger I

Fighting around with VIM

Today I attended the first lectures of the Master in Computer Science. Yes, I decided to go back to U

HowTo: Create 'linked tables' in MS Access

Assume you have to migrate some historical data from an application which used an MS Access database

Best practices: Deploying webapps

I don’t really know whether you want to consider this a “best practices” or not, bu

Revised: Changed values of readonly and disabled fields....

In a previous post I wrote about the problem that the values of readonly or disabled fields are not r

Changed values of readonly and disabled fields not accessible after postback

I don't know whether you noticed this problem already. ASP.net doesn't seem to handle the viewstate o

Google Chrome: browsing the Google way

I just came back from holidays at Rhodos (very nice) and flew over my mails and see there, one notice

JavaScript onChange event handling

When you're developing web applications you'll often encounter a situation where you react on changes

Strange GWT compiler error when trying to serialize Java objects

I'm currently working on a project on my own where I'm developing a rich client by using the Google W

The Controls collection cannot be modified because...

Programming on the web (JSP, ASP.net, etc..) is quite different than programming a desktop client. On

Dynamically modifying CSS class name attributes

CSS allows you to not only define the style attributes directly like<span id="mySpan" style="font-

Extending JavaScript objects with custom functions

It is nice how JavaScript objects can be extended with additional custom functions. Today for instanc

GMap script being reused

It is always nice to see people adapt and use your work. Today I made a quick look to my blog access

Recursive version of the FindControl(..) method

I don't know why there is none already implemented in the .NET framework. Anyway it wasn't too diffic

Specifying the size of a FileUpload control on Firefox

Apparently there seems to be a problem on Firefox when you want to specify a size for a file-upload b

Testing Ajax applications

Testing the correct functioning of an application is a major issue in software development. Errors ha

IE problems with AjaxControl Toolkit's AutoComplete extender

Microsoft's .Net AjaxControlToolkit provides a nice extender for doing Ajax-enabled auto-completion b

The type [X] exists in both...

You cannot imagine how fraught this compilation error was! On average every second launch of my web a

The ViewState hell: controls loosing their values

Recently at work I encountered severe problems with the ASP.net viewstate. We have build a very nice

Finally, my Katana arrived!!

Not the usual technical post :). Finally on Thursday this week my new katana arrived. It's exactly th

Attaching client-side event handler to radio button list

If you want to react to changes on a ASP.net radio button list from the client side you have to attac

No unit tests?? Forget it!

I know a lot of people that look somehow skeptic to unit tests and unit testing in general. They see

Best practices: VCS usage flowchart

So now there’s the graphical representation of my yesterday’s post. Computer scientists u

Best practices: version control system usage

I come to the office in the morning, start Visual Studio and fetch the latest versions of the source

Extended User Management under XP

This will become just a very short post since I'm too tired to write a lot today. I just set up my li

Retrieving list of installed applications

From now and then it happens that you have to reset your workstation, meaning to reformat your hard d

C# refresher

Recently I changed work and am now employed at the SIAG, a local informatics company which operates m

Noo! Google Browser Sync deleted my Firefox bookmarks

I'm using Google Browser Sync already for a longer time since it is quite comfortable for synchronizi

Logical separation with MVC

I'm currently working on a personal project (which I'll publish here, so keep an eye on my blog ;) )

Beside hacking each day...

...at the computer, I recently started a non-computer-science-related project :) , one where I was ab

Java Generics: C++ class templates vs. Java class generics

Generics are a great thing. C++ already had already a similar mechanism called templates. This for in

My new domain: js-development.com

Right! That's my new domain. Finally I've bought one. I planned to do that already for a longer time,

Congratulations Dott.ssa Stefanie Franchi

I'd like to take the occasion to congratulate my girlfriend Dottoressa Stefanie Franchi to her succes

Creating simple backups with WinRAR

When I'm working on some code for a program I'm developing, I got into the habit of creating regular

Roundup of blogging-year 2007

It's 2008!! I hope everybody of you had a good start. Well, I've seen that many bloggers post some ki

Unknown protocol: d

Today morning when starting a general build of the project I'm currently working on, I got an error s

Speakers don't mute when plugging in headphones!

As you may have recognized from the last post I start using Linux more often. With the new upgrade to

Where has Beryl gone??

Yesterday I upgraded Ubuntu to the new 7.10 (Gutsy) version. I don't know whether you've read a post

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Time ago - as you may have already read on this blog here - I started to experiment with the GME API.

News Mapper experiences a revival

After I first published my Google Mashup project "News Mapper", it immediately got published first on

Red-Green color deficiency: whats that??

Well, it is a special kind of color blindness and I'm actually one of those guys affected by it. Rece

Clean up your folder

It's actually not really worth to put a post about this...but anyway :) I recently coded just a simpl

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I don't know whether you already got in touch with Unit testing or TDD (Test-driven development). At

Mapplets on own website: illegal???

Today morning Alex - a friend of mine - wrote me a mail, pointing me to a pcwelt.de article with the

News Mapper has success!

My recent News Mapper mashup seems to have some success (at least for me :) ). Today I registered 114

News Mapper: A mashup experience with the Google Mashup Editor

Now in the two weeks after my successful graduation and before starting to work I found some space fo

Blog Action Day: Water pollution and waste

Yes, the title is right ;). I know that I usually post computer science related stuff on my blog here

Blog(ger's) Action Day

I'd like to to do a little promotion of the Blog Action Day since I find the idea quite useful and in

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On Sunday 02 this blog was listed on the 6th position in the BlogBites section of BlogPulse. Accordin

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Some of my blog-readers may have noticed the change in my layout. At the moment I'm just testing it (

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Why that?? Simply because adding (or better trying to add) a bookmark will result in a total crash of

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Last week tuesday was my birthday and I received a nice set of "Qi Gong" balls (see picture) from my

What now: Program Files or Programme??

A friend of mine has recently acquired a new Dell notebook with a German copy of Windows Vista. On th

Syntax highlighting on Blogger

I recently found a JavaScript and CSS based syntax highlighting framework called dp.SyntaxHighlighter

Beryl window manager

Some time ago, I wrote a post regarding Ubuntu where I also mentioned about the nice visual effects p

Logging is useful

When I develop some application, I usually add a logging functionality to it. I find logging useful,

Vista and stability??

I don't have yet installed the new - so much promoted - operating system of Microsoft: Windows Vista,

When Windows tray-icons disappear misteriously

Recently when starting my computer, I noticed that some icons were missing in the notification area (

The first step in a long way....

I've always been a sporty person :). Already in elementary school I started to play soccer in a team,

Diving into a new area

I never really got into the Linux world. Last year I installed Suse Linux, but I used it rarely, main

Smiley-support for blog-entries

I like it to add smileys to my posts, since I find they make it much more personally. On my old homep

Moving to a new home...

The step is done... :) After Blogger left its beta phase, I entertained the idea of moving my current

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ทำให้ Web Component คุยกันยังไงใน Micro front end architecture

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Experimenting with the Streams API

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Brewfather - Progressive App Review

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Determining Service Worker Support for your Site

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Tips for setting up a Ghost blog on Amazon AWS EC2

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Software Team Maturity Matrix

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Dynamic resources using the Network Information API and service workers

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Getting started with the Ambient Light Sensor

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Progressive Web Apps - Book Giveaway - Results

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How to display a "new version available" for a Progressive Web App

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Progressive Web Apps - Book Giveaway

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Converting a Ghost blog to a Progressive Web App

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Lessons learnt: Leaving an organisation

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Progressive Web Apps - My new book is available!

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Guest Posts and Advent Calendars

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Vue Components FTW - vue-country-flag

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Two Tips for NativeScript and Vue Development on the Playground

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Using NativeScript and Vue.js to Turn Your Friends into Cats

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Using the MailChimp API with Netlify Serverless Functions

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FusionReactor and Your ColdFusion Queries

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Reading Client-Side Files for Validation with Vue.js

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Using HTML Form Validation without a Form (Kinda)

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Building a Plex Server Duration Search with Vue.js

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Handling Errors in Vue.js

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TypeScript ESLint Setup

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Angular Schematics and Dynamic Content

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Ionic 4 Alpha Test

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Adding Languages to iOS

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Ionic Colors Map: How to use them correctly

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iPhoneX and The Notch

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Custom Decorators

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Revisiting Typings: Post 1.0

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Ionic 2 and External Libraries

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Setting Focus to an Input in Ionic 2

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Object Fit

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A New Year

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My Dotfiles

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Welcome

Consider this my first post

Self-Host Your Static Assets

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Tips for Technical Interviews

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Cache-Control for Civilians

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Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which

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ITCSS × Skillshare

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What If?

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CSS and Network Performance

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The Three Types of Performance Testing

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Getting to Know a Legacy Codebase

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Image Inconsistencies: How and When Browsers Download Images

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Quicktip ✨Format currencies with toLocaleString

Dynamic imports

Quicktip ✨ CSS Variables for z-index

Quicktip ✨ Animations Dev Tools

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Quicktip ✨ CSS Variables for colors

lit-element

lit-html 🔥

Intro to Web Components

What the Squoosh? (Feat. special guest)

PWA series #7: Web App Manifest

My personal take on Chrome Dev Summit 2018

PWA series #6: Webpack workbox

PWA series #5: Workbox routing

PWA series #4: Workbox intro

5 years of DevFest CountDown - Part 3

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5 years of DevFest CountDown - Part 2

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5 years of DevFest CountDown - Part 1

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Résolutions pour 2018

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Chrome Devtools - 5 fonctionnalités à suivre (Septembre 2017)

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Retour Google I/O 2017

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Avant proposCeux qui me connaissent savent

J'ai fait un jeux multijoueur en temps réel server-less et offline (Partie 3 - Partie graphique)

Troisième partie d’une série de 3 articles :

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Deuxième partie d’une série de 3 articles :

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Contrôle d'un robot par une page web

J’ai acheté pour ma fille il y a quelque temps ce robot :

Retour sur le Google I/O 2016

A mon tour de faire mon retour sur le

Comment devenir speaker ? (Partie 3)

Si vous n’avez pas lu les deux premières parties, vous pouvez les trouver

Comment devenir speaker ? (Partie 2)

Si vous n’avez pas lu la première partie, je vous invite à la lire :

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Régulièrement je croise un grand nombre de personnes talentueuses techniq

Myo sous linux

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Connectez votre rameur d'appartement avec Chrome

In browser JS to C compiler

The Weirdest JavaScript syntax

Representing JS Values in C

Compiling JS control-flow to C

Architecture for a JS to C compiler

Compiling Interpreted Languages

Writing a Javascript to C compiler

Improving Sapiens' timeline page

Real-time the easy way with EventSource

Functional Programming in Javascript

AngularJS 1.x - best practices for larger apps

Directive communication in Angular

Turn anything into an ng-model with ngModelController

Keeping easy things easy

Infographics aren't just pretty pictures

Scraping data with the browser

Is anybody you know democratic?

Own your content

Land-grabbing the Noosphere

Twedar - machine learning side project

Playing with ES6 generators to make a Maybe in Javascript

New project: SidekickJS - Javascript code quality tool

Blurring the stock market

How much iOS can you learn in a day?

The Faith Machine

The Luzhin Defence, Nabokov

Exambuff - Open Sourced Startup

Rails 3 Asset Pipeline in a minute

Ruby's === equality operator

My first experiments with R

Debugging React Native Apps using Visual Studio Code

React Redux Part 1 : Implementing a counter component in react by using state

Injecting Custom JavaScript into React Native's Webview

iTerm tips and zsh plugins for better development environment

React TDD Example: Unit Testing and Building a React Component with Jest, Gulp and React Test Utils

Repeating Multiple Elements using ng-repeat-start and ng-repeat-end in AngularJS

Implementing a curry function in JavaScript using TDD

Remote debugging localhost with weinre ( and HTTPS too )

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A brief walk-through of the ng-options in AngularJS

Practical Guide to PreLink, PostLink and Controller Methods of Angular Directives