Auto resizable spark TextArea (Flex 4).
Creating auto resizable components is a typical and often not a hard task for developer. But there are some problems with TextArea. TextArea automatically displays scrollers when content is too large....
View ArticleHTML5: Handle With Care
You obviously have met a “Read Carefully” section in virtually any agreement or proposal—whether they were printed or on-line. Despite the appeal, this part is intentionally made unreadable using ALL...
View ArticleBackground processes in iOS.
A customer had set the following task: he wanted to receive data to his device from the server in the local network regardless of whether the application was in foreground mode or not.Previously, the...
View ArticleBreezeJS and multipart keys
During one of our projects we decided to use a javascript library called Breeze.Breeze is a very useful library that allows users to work with entities in js and to execute CRUD operations directly...
View ArticleTreatment of spaces-only input in ASP.NET MVC
I guess every framework has some kind of bizarre "default" behavior which can cause problems and will require thorough research and experimenting to understand what's going on. For ASP.NET MVC, one of...
View ArticleLayer-based automated testing, part 1: choosing the right testing approach
This is a series of articles about building an effective testing system of larger-scale code-driven tests for your .Net application. It shows how to use such concepts like IoC, MVVM, BDD, mocking and...
View ArticleLayer-based automated testing, part 2: registration reusable in tests
Previous article contained some general discussion on where the layer-based approach to testing is applicable. Now, let's get into details of implementation. To be able to test layers, you'll need to...
View ArticleLayer-based automated testing, part 3: emulating request/response scenarios...
This article is about using BDD and SpecFlow for testing request/response scenarios like message boxes, modal windows, interaction with peripheral devices and similar cases. I'm using the sample from...
View ArticleHTML: How to Disable the Submit Button After Submit
Solution<script type="text/javascript"> function disableFormElements(form){ setTimeout(function(){for(var i=0; i<form.elements.length; i++) form.elements[i].disabled=true;}, 1);} <form...
View ArticleJavaScript: Select With Filtration
A SELECT tag with hundreds options deserves some filtration. Let’s have an extra INPUT to filter the SELECT options by label while the user is typing in. The problem: in Internet Explorer, changing...
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