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QCon London - My Personal Recap

From the previous posts (or from those on my Tumblr stream) you might have understood my participatio

Sharpening the Tools

This is a talk from Dan North about Sharpening the Tools at QCon 2010. I had the great pleasure to li

Questions for an Enterprise Architect

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

I Want the Cursor to be placed in the 1st empty Textbox!

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

A couple of days ago I noticed that the Nullable properties of a C# object were not properly deserial

Don't rant! Become Social and Contribute back!

Todays web experience has changed a lot and so has done coding as well. Everything is around being so

Eclipse: Importing existing project: "Invalid project description"

Monday morning, 07:30 AM. Me, starting the computer after the weekend, executing a git pull from my r

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

I know it's a bit late for a 2011 year recap, but I didn't manage to write one earlier. Actually, I j

Writing IoC Supported Integration Tests using AutoFac

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

Saying Goodbye to University

After my thesis presentation in march this year, my university career now ended officially with the d

Large-scale JavaScript Application Architecture

JavaScript programming has evolved a lot over the past years and has somehow revolutionized the way y

Some Usability Thoughts for the Weekend...

A couple of days ago I got the order to write a very simple program that would take a bunch of XML in

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

I have to admit that initially when the "var" keyword has been introduced in C# I was quite precautio

AutoFac: ASP.net WebForms UserControl Dependencies Only Available At Page_Load Event

I'm currently adapting the architecture of one of our old but core projects, still written in ASP.net

jQuery Validation: Add a Required Field Marker

When you use jQuery for validating input fields you might want to automatically (based on the validat

Don't Underestimate the Trouble Caused by URLs in Emails

At a first glance, the title might seem strange, but wait. The company I'm working at creates e-gover

Exploring JavaScript: Iterating Over a Collection of Items

If I manage to do it, I'd like to write a series of introductory posts about programming in JavaScrip

What? Model-View-Controller in JavaScript?

At work I'm currently working on a new web architecture composed of a rich client written in JavaScri

TechVid: Become a Javascript Console Power-User

A nice 7 minute video showing some Chrome, Opera and Firefox power user commands for the JavaScript c

The Similarity of C# and JavaScript Syntax

I'm currently diving deeply into creating rich JavaScript web applications. You cannot deny that they

Testing JavaScript: Mocking jQuery Ajax Calls

When "seriously" developing JavaScript applications we obviously need to write tests. Being a fully d

JavaScript Scoping by Example

Understanding the scoping rules of JavaScript is one of the fundamental things to learn when getting

Integrating Jersey with Spring

Spring provides a lot of benefits and promotes best practices with its dependency injection mechanism

Why Did it Have to Be So Complicated Before??

I started web development using Java, basically during my studies at the university. When workin

Chrome Developer Tools: 12 Tricks to Develop Quicker

This is definitely a "must-have-seen" video for every JavaScript developer. Chrome has some really ni

Experiencing the jQuery 1.6 Breaking Changes

Unfortunately I did not actively follow the release of jQuery 1.6 as I would probably have noted that

JavaScriptSerializer: Circular Reference was Detected While Serializing an Object of Type...

Consider an ASP.net MVC web application where you use some Ajax for retrieving an object. Let's start

How often did you use the Yield keyword??

If you think about your coding...how often have you used C#'s yield keyword? To be honest I continuou

Check-in Small Pieces to your VCS!

A while ago our TFS master at work :) sent around a statistic about the "ExcutionCount" of each devel

Posting JSON Data to an ASP.net MVC 3 Web Application

The trend in today's web application development goes more and more in the direction of having rich,

Write the Minimum Necessary Code In Your Unit Test Case That Makes It Valuable

Maintainability is of major importance in software development. Usually writing tests against your co

Android Development Tools

Till recently, (IMHO) Android Developers had a very bad experience in designing graphical U

Create DOM Tree out of a Dynamic HTML String

Just a very short post before I go to bed as I'm really tired today. I just played around with some J

SmellyCode: A Classical Example of Non-Unittestable Code

I know there might be some degree of repetition in my posts when I speak about unit testing and mocki

Should Android Worry About the iOS 5 Update? Definitely Not!

With the announcement of the new iOS 5 at the WWDC, the first articles emerge already on the web rela

HowTo: Upgrade RAM of Your Macbook Pro

Here's a nice video that clearly explains how you can upgrade your Macbook RAM:

Visual Studio: The application cannot start

Today I started my Visual Studio 2010 instance by using the "Run as administrator" option (as I often

Basta-On-Tour Wrap Up Day 2: EF Best Practices, JavaScript, MVC

Day 2 at the BASTA! On Tour was dedicated to different kind of small workshops.Web 2.0 Applications w

Basta-On-Tour Wrap Up Day 1: Entity Framework

Well, this is a very short and brief wrap up of the 1st day here at the Basta! On Tour in Düsseldorf.

Document and Share Your Snippets: Presenting SnippetDoc

Increasing the productivity in the long run is most often tightly related to increasing the quality.

Is It More Readable??

I was just going over some code and came across some webservice methods having a lot of repetitive co

Trouble with the VS QualityTools.UnitTestFramework dll

I recently build a tool that automates and simplifies the unit testing of large parts of our applicat

Why Automated Tests Boost Your Development Speed

Many critics against writing automated tests directly address the additional time that is needed for

Load JavaScript Files Asynchronously

I recently worked on a component for our single-sign-on system. As part of that work I also developed

Concluding another Chapter

Yesterday I finally concluded my studies for the Master in Computer Science at the Free University of

A Test-Driven Dev's Nightmare: Meeting the HttpContext

My main task for the coming weeks at work is to extend one of our older but highly successful we

JCG - Joining the Java Code Geeks Program

A couple of days ago I was kindly invited to the Java Code Geeks program. Their goal is to build an o

Help, Gingerbread drains the Battery of my Nexus One!!

A couple of days ago I finally got the eagerly awaited system upgrade to Gingerbread on my Nexus One.

Getting Started with Android Development

Android has become very popular recently, especially among developers which would like to create some

Least Invasive Approach to Gain Root Access on the Nexus One

For my current Android research project I needed to copy an APK to the /system/app folder. Now for th

Deploy Android APK OTA Using Symbolic Links and Dropbox

Couple of time ago I wrote a blog post describinghow you can use Dropbox for deploying your Android A

Coding an Update Functionality for your Android App

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); An immediate answer would be: why should I need t

FriendlyBool Extender What?

From now and then it happens that I have to databind some entities onto the UI, containing boolean da

Why Extract {Class | Interface | Method} Refactoring improves Testability and Readability

I still see many developers coding huge methods and large classes. The code looks very much procedura

Android: HowTo Detect Installed SQLite DB Version

As you might already know, Android comes with a preinstalled SQLite database. This is quite handy bec

ASP.net: Organize Your Resources the Correct Way!

ASP.net provides well-known mechanisms for localizing web applications, namely by extracting hard-cod

Tomcat: IllegalStateException: No output folder

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

Win7: Windows Explorer Doesn't Refresh Elements

This was a really weird problem. Overnight Windows Explorer on my Windows 7 Enterprise installation s

Smelly Code: Direct Object Instantiation as a Testability Killer

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

Update SDK to Platform Gingerbread 2.3: Conversion to Dalvik Format Failed

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

Most often when you create WCF webservices you'll want to run them in a secure channel, for instance

Juri Goes GIT - First Steps

Yes, I'm going "git" ;). An inherent part of structured, well organized working is to have your stuff

Don't Let Your Test Doubles Fool You

During unit testing it is common to substitute dependencies with a test double (see Martin Fowler's d

Testing Your SUT Against Exceptions

When you test your method for exceptions (which is good practice) the usually naive approach - which

Android: Attaching ClickListeners Declaratively

If you define a click listener for - say - a button in an android Activity, then you basically have t

More Than Just Synching - Dropbox

You know Dropbox, right (if not, head on to get it here)? I totally love that tool. I mean, you nearl

HowTo: MySQL Workbench to Remote Ubuntu Production Server Using SSH Port Forwarding

Before starting, I'm totally not the Linux command line guru, unfortunately. It feels like years of j

Intercepting WCF Operation Calls with Impersonated Identity

Take the following scenario. You have a WCF webservice with several operations. The communication run

Test-Driven Development and Automated Testing: A Metaphor

Motivation is an important factor when learning something new. It is what makes you ambitious and wha

Smelly Code: Eager Test

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

Introducing #smellycode

Couple of month ago, after posting some comments about bad code on Twitter, my ex-work-mate Peter (gr

Lessons Learned: Make your ListItemCollection Linq Queryable

I love Linq! In my opinion it is one of the best features that have ever been added to C#, making dev

Retrieve Selected Items on Checkable ListView: Differences in SDK Level 7 and 8

I'm currently testing my Android app that I'm developing for my MSc thesis on different real devices.

Design Tech Talk Series Presents: OO Design for Testability

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

TDD Test == Unit Test or TDD Test Unit Test?? Is it Really Important??

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

I often now ran into the problem of continuously getting queried for the TFS credentials when connect

Do I Really Need to Test This??

Yes! Let's start straight of with an example. Consider I have my service (business) class SourceCodeI

Testing Newbies: Some Thoughts about Test First

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

A fundamental thing when developing Android apps but also in general when developing with device emul

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

Refactoring for the sake of compactness and reusability

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

I'm currently working on my MSc thesis work which is divided into a project that has to be developed

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

Most apps need a database for storing their data onto the device in a structured form. Android's nati

Why factories with configuration files are better for decoupling but still a testability killer

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

Boost your productivity using shortcuts in Visual Studio

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

Can you trust your tests?

One important thing about unit testing but also about testing in general is that you can trust y

'\n' will break your JSON jQuery - WCF service call

I recently coded a WCF REST webservice that needed to be accessed from JavaScript. Basically it was a

Test-Driven-Design: A real world scenario of an email sending requirement

Many applications have requirements to send automatic emails to their users, especially in web enviro

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

When writing JavaScript code with Visual Studio 2008 it automatically formats your source code when g

Unit testing asynchronous code

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

Tackle software dependencies with IoC and Dependency Injection

Coupling between objects creates "dependency", which per se is not bad at all. You will always have s

GWT Button with image AND text

GWT just provides the basic widgets like check boxes, hyperlinks, buttons etc...and leave the more co

Client-server communication peculiarities with GWT and App Engine DataNucleus

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

GWT Hyperlink Widget with Image

Standard GWT Hyperlink widgets don't seem to give the possibility to associate an image. This is quit

GWT, App Engine and App Engine Data Classes

I currently have some time before starting with my Master thesis project which will bring me back to

DockLayoutPanel doesn't work correctly??

Suppose you'd like to create a layout like the following using GWT:With GWT 2.0 the documentation sug

HowTo: Launch JavaScript after async postback of UpdatePanel

Assume the scenario where you want to launch a JavaScript function after your UpdatePanel finished to

GWT DecoratorPanel style problems

I just experienced a nice side effect that happens if you use a DecoratorPanel. In my example it cont

Reloaded: Clean up your folder. For MacOS

When downloading files from the web I usually have a predefined folder where all the downloads from m

Are anonymous Lambda style event handlers a readability killer?

A standard event handling method in C# looks something like thispublic void SomeOtherMethod(){MyClass

Time Machine backups to Windows shared network drive

As some of you may have already read I acquired a MacBook Pro about half a year ago and I love it ;)

HowTo: Use your iPhone as a remote control for presentations

My latest post is already a while back but I'm currently extremely busy. More posts will come in Febr

HowTo: Use globally defined resources in your ASPX code

When creating localized web applications using ASP.net you may often come across strings which are th

Comments smell! Replace them with more expressive code.

As already pointed out in that post, here's another code example:...//300 = Italyif(aCompany.NationId

HowTo: Fade out div after some seconds using jQuery

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

Android SMS activity doesn't fill phone number

Today while fixing a bug for our current project we develop for the Android phone I found a strange b

Creating Test Suites with jUnit 4

A while back I've posted about how to enable the automatic (jUnit 3.8-style) creation of test suites

The power and simplicity of the Command pattern

Never thought of how to implement an "undo" function? Not that easy, huh? People in our architecture

MapView doesn't fire onLongClick event

Here's another curiosity I came across today while programming on my Android project. I was creating

HowTo: Include JavaScript file from JavaScript code

Recently a colleague asked me on how to add a JavaScript file reference to an HTML document from with

Implementing the onTouchEvent for the MapActivity

Android View classes expose an onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) method. As the name already suggests, by

Visual Studio intellisense not working properly

Recently a work mate pointed me out that my Visual Studio Intellisense seemed to not work correctly.

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

Consider the situation where you have an Activity displaying a list of items. You have a context menu

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

ASP.net Ajax: Consuming webservice from client-side JavaScript

Yesterday I answered a question on SO related to the problem of consuming an ASP.net webservice from

Instantiating object from generic type: Java vs. .Net

Consider the following .Net code:public static class Processor{public static TItem CreateInstance<

Accessing the host machine from your Android emulator

I recently started a project where I develop an Android app (there will some posts later on ;) ) whic

Repeater looses its data collection. ViewState problem?

A while back I experienced a really strange problem in one of our ASP.net applications, namely my rep

Part 1: Writing testable code for the Android

Creating testable code is one of the major aims when designing good, maintainable applications. I act

Blog to learn...

John Skeet answered a question on SO related to how to learn good programming in terms of learning go

Annotation tools for the Mac

When you create scientific reports or you just prepare for exams you usually have to go over a whole

GWT meets Spring

GWT is quite evolving recently. There are a couple of reasons for that:Coding apps like Gmail and Goo

Are C# regions a good thing??

Well, I'd say it depends. If you use regions to logically group your code in your class, then it may

Law of Demeter: Nice metaphor

I just came across a nice metaphor for explaining the Law of Demeter. For those of you that didn't ye

Microsoft Ajax CDN

Scott Gu' just announced the launch of Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network. The name already expl

Add semantic through your code, not through commenting

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

It is not about writing tests, its about writing stories

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

NullsafeGet extension method? Simplicity for the cost of readability??

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

Around(J2)ME listed on Softpedia

A project I developed together with my colleague Matthias Braunhofer during the course of Mobile Serv

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

Server Error: Validation of viewstate MAC failed.

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

VS Designer: 'X' could not be set on property 'Y'

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

HTML list item background image disappears on IE

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

ExecutableTask pattern to tackle J2ME multithreading

Programming on the mobile device is quite different to more common environments like web or client-se

MIDlet for downloading image from the web

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

Here’s a nice video that explains Scrum in under 10 minutes. It was quite useful when preparing

Mashup editor about to shut down

According to a note on the official Google Mashup Blog, they're about to shut down the Google Mashup

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

Intel ProSet Wireless tool causing a lot of trouble

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

Debugging and Testing the Web with Firebug

CommentRob Cambell, member of the Firebug working group gives a talk about Firebug, its history and a

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

UML Use Case "extend" and "include" relationships

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

Del.icio.us links and three new projects online

My blog readers can now bookmark posts I've written with delicious, by just clicking on the "add to d

Guidelines for promoting your blog

Some guidelines on how to promote and so to increase the traffic on your blog. These "rules" have bee

HowTo: Set the assembly binding location

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

Getting ready for mobile development with Eclipse, WTK and EclipseME

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

Observation: Selected value behaviour of the DropDown list control

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

Installing and configuring ATI graphics card drivers on Ubuntu Hardy

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

Let's consider the following jFace Action class:public class RateAction extends Action {private final

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

Blogging year 2008

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

C++ experiences

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

The type X is not accessible due to restriction on the...

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

Learning by understanding and reusing code, not by copying!!

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

TDD, JUnit 3.8 and JUnit 4

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

Appearing on BlugPulse

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

3-column-blog-layout

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

How to close Safari 3 for Win?? It's easy, just add a bookmark!

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

Qi Gong

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

HTML and CSS and the 2019 Web Almanac

The HTTP Archive’s Web Almanac is fantastic because it provides us with data about how we build what

If It Can Be Done Using an HTTP Header, Use an HTTP Header

The following is a (slightly modified) chapter from Upgrade Your HTML, which is “all about picking ex

How Running Your Own Website Is Much Better for You Than You Think

The typical argument for why professionals don’t have their own websites is usually that they don’t w

2019

Another year, another retrospective. Factoids and data on life and work.

An HTML Optimizer’s Config for html-minifier

Jad (Joubran) asked me about my configuration for html-minifier the other week, and in a hurry I poin

When to Open Links in a New Tab

Always open links in the same tab unless doing so 1) could disrupt a process, 2) could risk data loss

CSS: When to Use Logical Properties

Logical properties are great and long overdue. They are great because they solve an ugly problem of i

Website Optimization Measures, Part IX

Random improvements and notes around compression and caching, content security and feature policies,

Upgrade Your HTML (the Booklet)

I’ve written a very short book on improving HTML code: Upgrade Your HTML. Upgrade Your HTML is about

On Writing Better Markup

As HTML is so important and yet also so easy, everyone writes HTML, and everyone says they can write

The Developer’s Fallacy of Close Collaboration with Designers

Working closely with designers makes sense and is awesome, notably for mutual understanding and effic

Definition of Web Developer

Web developer, n.: A person who—

“Must Work Without JavaScript”

That websites should work without JavaScript has a long professional tradition, and for apps much the

Optional HTML: Everything You Need to Know

Optional HTML can be left out to improve performance, to guide code comprehension, and to hone the cr

Sources 2019

In 2014, for idealistic transparency and enthusiastic link love, I’ve shared the feed sources I was f

When to use img, img@srcset, and picture and source

I’ve disliked srcset and the whole family of ideas around it from the start because doing the same th

13 Leadership Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

We’ve all seen approaches to team management and leadership that work, and others that don’t. A brief

Image Compression: How to Super-Easily Set Up Automated Base Optimization

Setting up image compression tooling is easy—and for those who want to err on the safe side automatic

The Problem with Web Development Checklists, or: The Frontend Checklist, Revised

Checklists are a great way to make sure nothing gets forgotten, yet they are problematic when they co

3 Reasons Against Ad Blockers

Ad blockers are popular. Yet, they also appear to be a problem. They appear to be a problem that can

Understanding Image Compression: Tooling and Context

Image compression plays an important role for performance optimization. It seems straight-forward but

A Crime Called Favicon

16×16, 30×30, 32×32, 48×48, 57×57, 60×60, 64×64, 70×70, 72×72, 76×76, 90×90, 96×96, 114×114, 120×120,

How Can We Make Website Maintenance Work More Visible?

The maintenance and maintainability of websites is a much neglected topic. This is problematic becaus

Counter the Happiness Assumption

It may be rather clear that life is not all about being happy.

199 Love Haiku (the Book)

In 2016, I wrote 1,000 short poems, haiku-style. I wrote those poems to challenge myself as a writer.

Dynamic imports solve all the problems, right?

Since Angular version 8, we support dynamic imports in loadChildren in the route declaration. In this

5 Angular CLI Features You Didn't Know About

I’ve been using Angular for years, not only the framework itself but the entire development pla

Angular quicklink Preloading Strategy

A few months ago I posted an article about Guess.js. Guess.js is a powerful library for predictive pr

Introducing Bazel Schematics for Angular CLI

In this blog post, we want to share our new schematics for Angular CLI which provide Bazel build supp

Building TypeScript Projects with Bazel

In this blog post, we’ll make a brief introduction to what Bazel is and how we can build our Ty

Joining Google

The past five years I’ve been heavily involved in the startup space, both, here in the Silicon

Playing Mortal Kombat with TensorFlow.js. Transfer learning and data augmentation

While experimenting with enhancements of the prediction model of Guess.js, I started looking at deep

Fast, extensible, configurable, and beautiful linter for Go

About a year ago I decided to polish my Go skills. Although the language is pretty small compared to

Introducing Guess.js - a toolkit for enabling data-driven user-experiences on the Web

About two months ago I published my initial research[1] on data-driven bundling. A few weeks after th

Machine Learning-Driven Bundling. The Future of JavaScript Tooling.

In this article, I’ll introduce the early implementation of a few tools which based on techniqu

JavaScript Decorators for Declarative and Readable Code

Decorators in JavaScript are now in stage 2. They allow us to alter the definition of a class, method

3 Tricks For Using Redux and Immutable.js with TypeScript

In this post, I’ll show you a few tricks which can make your life using Immutable.js and Redux

Follow Your Dream Career with Open Source. Personal Story.

This time I’ll violate my principle to write only about purely technical topics on my blog. In

Redux Anti-Patterns - Part 1. State Management.

For the past year I’ve been working on a project which uses React with TypeScript and Redux. In

Faster Angular Applications - Understanding Differs. Developing a Custom IterableDiffer

In this article we’ll take a look at another Angular abstraction - the differs and more specifi

Faster Angular Applications - Part 2. Pure Pipes, Pure Functions and Memoization

In this post, we’ll focus on techniques from functional programming we can apply to improve the

Faster Angular Applications - Part 1. On Push Change Detection and Immutability

On AngularConnect 2017 in London, I gave a talk called “Purely Fast.” In the presentation

Understanding Dynamic Scoping and TemplateRef

This post will be dedicated to template references in Angular and dynamic scoping. Although the main

Implementing a Simple Compiler on 25 Lines of JavaScript

I already wrote a couple of essays related to the development of programming languages that I was ext

Developing Statically Typed Programming Language

In this blog post we’ll go through a sample implementation of a type checker, interpreter and a

WebVR for a Gamified IDE

In the first part of this blog post I discuss the idea of using virtual reality for gamification of m

7 Angular Tools That You Should Consider

In this article we’re going to quickly explore 7 Angular development tools which can make our e

Announcing ngrev - Reverse Engineering Tool for Angular

Have you ever been hired to work on a huge legacy Angular project with thousands of NgModules, compon

Implementing Angular's Dependency Injection in React. Understanding Element Injectors.

Recently I’ve been blogging mostly about Angular and it’s not by accident! Angular is an

Distributing an Angular Library - The Brief Guide

In this post I’ll quickly explain the minimum you need to know in order to publish an Angular c

Angular in Production

In this informal essay I’ll go through a case study of my experience in using Angular (2 and ab

Ahead-of-Time Compilation in Angular

Recently I added Ahead-of-Time (AoT) compilation support to angular-seed and got a lot of questions a

2.5X Smaller Angular 2 Applications with Google Closure Compiler

In the post “Building an Angular 2 Application for Production” we explored how we can dec

Using Stripe with Angular

Stripe offer a set of APIs which allow businesses and individuals to easily accept and manage payment

Building an Angular Application for Production

Progressive Web Applications help us build native-like web apps, thanks to amazing tools such as Serv

Implementing the Missing "resolve" Feature of the Angular 2 Router

For the last a couple of months I’m working on an Angular 2 based PWA. The more complex the app

Scalable Single-Page Application Architecture

In order to have better understanding of the following blog post you should be familiar with the fund

Managing ambient type definitions and dealing with the "Duplicate identifier" TypeScript error

Maintaining the angular-seed, I found out that the most common problem for developers using the proje

Static Code Analysis of Angular 2 and TypeScript Projects

So far, most of the blog posts I’ve written are tutorials; they explain how we can use given te

Enforcing Best Practices with Static Code Analysis of Angular 2 Projects

About two weeks ago I published the initial draft of a Community-driven Angular 2 Style Guide. It was

ViewChildren and ContentChildren in Angular

In this article I’m going to explain the difference between the concepts of view children and c

Dynamically Configuring the Angular's Router

Warning: This version of the Angular 2 router is now deprecated! This means that soon the used below

Angular 2 Hot Loader

A couple of months ago I watched a few talks from ReactEurope. I was truly impressed by a few of them

Lazy Loading of Route Components in Angular 2

Warning: This version of the Angular 2 router is now deprecated! This means that soon the used below

Aspect-Oriented Programming in JavaScript

Note: The following blog post is based on the library aspect.js, which can be found here.The object-o

Flux in Depth. Store and Network Communication.

This is the second, and probably be the last, blog post of the series “Flux in Depth”. In

Using JSX with TypeScript

JavaScript is a weird language although, we love it the way it is. However, I’ve had quite a pa

Flux in Depth. Overview and Components.

This is the first blog post of the series “Flux in Depth”. Is this “yet the another

Even Faster AngularJS Data Structures

This is the last post of the series “Boost the Performance of an AngularJS Application Using Im

Boost the Performance of an AngularJS Application Using Immutable Data - Part 2

A few weeks ago I posted the article “Boost the Performance of an AngularJS Application Using I

Angular2 - First Impressions

On 18th of September 2014 was pushed the initial commit of version 2.0 of the AngularJS framework. A

Build Your own Simplified AngularJS in 200 Lines of JavaScript

My practice proved that there are two good/easy ways to learn a new technology: Re-implement it by yo

Persistent State of ReactJS Component

ReactJS is a framework, by facebook, which adds some well known concepts into the UI development. Eac

Boost the Performance of an AngularJS Application Using Immutable Data

I have affinity to functional programming since my first year in college. During my initial contact w

Processing Binary Protocols with Client-Side JavaScript

Last couple of weeks I’m trying to build high-performance consumption of binary protocol throug

Stream your Desktop to HTML5 Video Element

In this blog post I’ll share how you can stream your desktop to HTML5 video element.All you nee

Multi-User Video Conference with WebRTC

This is a tutorial for how to implement a multi-user video conference with WebRTC, AngularJS and Yeom

Asynchronous calls with ES6 generators

ES6 generators have landed in Chrome 39 Beta on 9th of October and are already available in the stabl

Binary Tree iterator with ES6 generators

ES6 specification is being clarified every passed day! One of the key features of the new version of

WebRTC chat with React.js

In this blog post I’m going to share how could be build WebRTC chat with React.js. Before we co

AngularJS in Patterns (Part 3)

This publication aims to provide a more theoretical overview of some of the AngularJS components in o

AngularJS in Patterns (Part 2). Services.

This publication aims to provide a more theoretical overview of some of the AngularJS components in o

Using GitHub Pages with Jekyll!

I’m switching to GitHub pages with Jekyll. There are several reasons behind my decision: Faster

AngularJS in Patterns (Part 1). Overview of AngularJS

In this series of blog posts I’m going to cover the paper I’m writing at GitHub.It aims to provide a

Singleton in JavaScript

Wikipedia describes the singleton design pattern as: The singleton pattern is a design pattern that r

Express over HTTPS

Sometimes you want to test your application in environment closer to the real world. In such cases yo

What I get from the JavaScript MV* frameworks

Why should I use JavaScript MVC, MVVM, MVP or simply MVW(hatever works for you)?When I talk with peop

Remote Desktop Client with AngularJS and Yeoman

In this blog post I’m going to show you how to build a VNC client using AngularJS and Yeoman. The sou

The magic of $resource (or simply a client-side Active Record)

At first sight AngularJS seems like a magical framework, which does some weird but awesome things lik

AngularJS Inheritance Patterns

Since AngularJS does not provide any built-in features for using inheritance, in this blog post I’ll

AngularAOP v0.1.0

In this blog post I’ll introduce you the new way of annotating services included in AngularAOP v0.1.0

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