My name is Juri Strumpflohner and this is my technical blog. I'm a software architect, .Net, Android, Web and Java dev, TDD and best practices promoter and martial arts practitioner.
JavaScript programming has evolved a lot over the past years and has somehow revolutionized the way you develop on the web. While many initially just used it as a scripting language to quickly hack in some dynamic behavior into traditional websites, it starts now to be used much more like a fully capable programming language (mainly also due to many emerging JavaScript libraries and more capable browsers).
A couple of days ago I got the order to write a very simple program that would take a bunch of XML input files with the task to elaborate them in terms of grouping them according to some identifier and then to output the result (grouped per directory) in a more user friendly and readable way. While the prog is stupidly simple there are still some potential pitfall one might not realize immediately.
I have to admit that initially when the "var" keyword has been introduced in C# I was quite precautious in using it. It does reduce code readability, I thought. In the end I'd say it's pretty much a matter of style and preferences, but not only, it even might help you in avoiding to break your code when you make changes, thus leading to a more maintainable code base.
I'm currently adapting the architecture of one of our old but core projects, still written in ASP.net WebForms and with our custom ORM mapper. Since we're currently starting to release a new version of the project, we decided took the opportunity to also exchange our custom ORM mapper with Entity Framework and at the same time I introduced AutoFac for providing dependency injection. It turned out however, that with the default ASP.net WebForms integration, dependencies of a Page's child control (i.e. a UserControl) are only available in the Page_Load event of the UserControl rather than already in its OnInit.
When you use jQuery for validating input fields you might want to automatically (based on the validators) decorate your according field labels or input fields with appropriate markers that indicate required fields. This is common practice in web UIs and quite handy and intuitive for the user. Obviously you'd like this to happen on an automated basis rather than manually adding those markers which is more error prone. Using jQuery this is quite simple actually.
At a first glance, the title might seem strange, but wait. The company I'm working at creates e-government solutions, so the target audience are the citizens, from the young, very computer-literate ones to the more elderly (and often, but not always) less computer-literate ones :). Recently we created an ID-Management system for providing a single-signon system for all of our services. That specific ID-Man system does send emails to the citizen on an automated basis, i.e. when resetting the password and those emails contain links which point back to our ID-Man web application. I'd never have thought how much trouble those URLs might cause us.
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