A Self-Serve System to Refresh Databases (Part 3)
This is the wrap up of this series on a system for developers to restore production database in test. It gets pretty detailed on the web setup side.
2019-05-16
2,207 reads
.Net
Breaking the 4th Wall with Unity
Even when creating games, your code has access to environment variables and document files. In this article, Lance Talbert shows how to access files to convince the player that maybe the game knows more than it should.
2019-03-28
Factors Behind Successfully and Repeatedly Executing Digital Transformation Programs at a Lightning Pace
IT transformation projects often fail due to poor planning, poor communication and more. In this article, Mohammad Rizvi explains how to be successful and give your customer a great experience.
2019-01-08
2,602 reads
Bootstrap 4 and Self-validating Forms
Validating the user input of a web form is important for security and data quality. In this article, Dino Esposito explains how to validate a form and add undo capability with Bootstrap 4.
2019-01-07
2,392 reads
SQL Server From .Net: Using SQL Server Schema to Build a Data Set
A basic introduction for developers (or anyone) to using the metadata for a SQL Server database to build a DataSet in ADO.Net that represent objects in any SQL Server database.
2018-09-27
401 reads
Is JavaScript Single-Threaded?
Developing JavaScript for web pages can be perplexing. You will get errors that seem to make no sense, You will be given nuggets of advice about how and when you can use JavaScript to manipulate the DOM or make Ajax requests. It is far better to understand the reason for these rules; the single-threaded nature of JavaScript, and how it loads the page and manages the event loop. How can you achieve parallel processing and what is the best way? Igor makes it all clear and obvious.
2016-11-04
3,714 reads
Going Interactive with C#
For some time now, C# programmers have gazed enviously at the interactive capabilities of F#, Python and PowerShell. For rapid prototyping work and interactive debugging, dynamic languages are hard to beat. C# Interactive slipped into view quietly, without razzmatazz, in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. It's good, it's worth knowing about; and Tom Fischer is intent on convincing you of that.
2016-10-11
5,674 reads
Taking Pictures from HTML
Sometimes a request from a user who doesn't appreciate the limitations of the technology can jolt you into discovering that an application feature that was, until recently, difficult to achieve is suddenly relatively easy. Dino was asked to allow the user to take photographs and associate them with an item of work. After he'd recovered from the shock, he decided that it was achievable, and now describes how he went on and did it.
2016-10-06
4,818 reads
The Exploratory Testing Chrome Plugin
If all your application testing is done by test experts, who know how to record images, do screen-capture, write issue-reports to TFS more appropriate and consistent format and so on, you probably don't need the 'Exploratory Testing' chrome plug-in. Otherwise, it is worth checking out Ambily KK's walkthrough.
2016-09-05
3,633 reads
A Real-World React.js Setup for ASP.NET Core and MVC5
React is a front-end user interface library developed by Facebook, originally to help them improve their own site. Since then it has grown into somewhat of a phenomenon, with many active users. In this article, Jon Smith provides multiple examples of how to use React with recently released ASP.NET Core MVC, and the existing ASP.NET MVC5 framework.
2016-07-28
3,666 reads
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