posted by Bryan on
Windows7 allows you to create a homegroup for easy file sharing, printer sharing across all the computers on your network. However, apparently you are limited to a single homegroup on the network. What if you wanted to create a new one. Here's a little undocumented trick that I found out today.
Continue Freytag's pyramidposted by Jake on
BackboneJs is a great resource for creating rich UIs. Rich means interactive. Interactivity grows when the client can do more of the work of an application itself, becoming more reactive and dynamic to user feedback, able to be more event-driven, and hopefully more quick and responsive. Here's a short history of how we've been creating rich UIs and a simple example of a rich UI in backbonejs
posted by Bryan on
In developing a mobile web application, it would be ridiculous to avoid writing javascript unit tests. After all, they are simple to write and run. Recently, I implemented running our already existing Jasmine tests using PhantomJs and integrated this process into our continuous build environment. Works smooth!
posted by Jake on
If you have to store your text strings for internationalization (i18n) on the server, that's one thing. But, if you can store them in Javascript, you might think about using RequireJs and its i18n plugin, because it makes it nice and easy.
posted by Jake on
Our app throws all sorts of exceptions. Well, it doesn't usually. It shouldn't normally. Er... But, when it does we want to put in some handling so that the app doesn't blow up in some unsuspecting user's face. And even then, sometimes we want special handling for certain exceptions and make sure others are just caught. And that's what we'll do with AccessDeniedException.