April 2013
3 posts
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Listen
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Online Resources for AngularJs
Angular Seed – Good starting point for an angular project
https://github.com/angular/angular-seed
Egghead.io – Tons of videos about AngularJs
http://egghead.io
AngularJs – the source
http://angularjs.org
Angular UI – components for UI items in Angular
http://angular-ui.github.com
ngModules – popular modules for AngularJs
http://ngmodules.org
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Add class to element when scrolling in AngularJs
Revised scroll directive that supports IE8
Calculate Offset
Scroll directive
https://gist.github.com/markcoleman/5300596
March 2013
10 posts
2 tags
Why all your text is black when printing when you...
In bootstrap.css
https://gist.github.com/markcoleman/5271369
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Beware of DateTimeOffset precision and Javascript
We decided to use DateTimeOffset or DateTime2 as the datatype for our date fields in Sql using Entity Framework Code First. Sounds simple enough should not cause any problems right?
WRONG!
The default of DateTimeOffset and DateTime2 has a precision of 7 digits for milliseconds, but ECMAScript only supports 3 (webkit does 5) digits for milliseconds.
See this example with...
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SxSW Day 5 - Interfaces Accessibility &...
SXSW Day 5
Interfaces, Accessibility & Superheroes
One out of seven of the world’s populate has some form of disability
In the US 15 and over 21.3% have a disability, People over 65 49.8%
Regulations and Guidelines
1990 ADA
1998 Section 508
1999 WCAG 1.0
2008 - WCAG 2.0
2010 - All video needs captions
Superhero Checklist
Overcome adversity
fight for good
adhere to...
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SXSW Day 4
Intentionally Dealing with Responsive Design
A designer/developer is a unicorn a mystical person that does everything.
As an organization grows the specialization in each field grows.
They optimized the css per page not actually globally. This allows to optimize for the smallest possible css required for the page.
Performance of a responsive design is very important when...
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SXSW Day 3, (Mobile Web Apps Suck - Workshop)
SXSW Day 3
https://github.com/fisherwebdev/seeds
Versioning your app is not agile or lean
With using apple you only have 100 test tickets, this limits your alpha group.
If you use web you have unlimited alpha
Future Friendly
The age of ubiquitous computing
progressive enhancement is not graceful degradation
mobile first
responsive design
Write once -> run anywhere (debug...
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Random SXSW Day 2 Notes (Prototype or Die!)
SXSW Day 2
Prototype or Die (Workshop)
Five questions of
Do they get it? Do they understand what is going on in the application
Can they find it? Does the user know that something is on the screen.
Can they do it? can they preform the function
Do they like it? is it enjoyable experience
Is it useful? Does the user find that the application is useful
Use wizard of oz type...
Random Notes from SXSW 2013 Day 1
SxSw 2013 - Day 1
Lean Forward, Lean Back: Tablet News Experiences
Storytelling in the age of the tablet
Lean forward platforms are phone and tablet, short quick headlines easy to see and read
Lean back, long form and lots of detail, paper or computer
If you put any emphasis on something treat the phone as almost the most important
Tablet is also almost as important
keep...
Correct setup for iCloud in Windows 8 Mail →
From the link
youremail@me.com
imap.mail.me.com port 993 With SSL
smtp.mail.com port 587 No SSL
Outgoing requires authentication
Use same username for incoming and outgoing mail.
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AngularJs currency filter with no $ sign
https://gist.github.com/markcoleman/5093740
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AngularJs, Json.Net, and the $type property
We use the Json.Net serializer in our project and while performing a post that deserializes into a derved class we would also serilization exceptions. We enabled Json.net to emit the $type property so this should be working without problems. Opening up Firebug we quickly realized that the $type property was missing from the request, what gives?
Digging in a bit further it appears that for some...
February 2013
2 posts
AngularJS directive for currency that adds +/-... →
https://gist.github.com/markcoleman/5042147
6 tags
Unknown (to me) .net framework gem - TextInfo →
A source Description of “REGULAR SAVINGS”
TextInfo textInfo = new CultureInfo(“en-US”, false).TextInfo;
depositProduct.Description = textInfo.ToTitleCase(share.Description.ToLower());
Using TextInfo
Turns it into “Regular Savings”
.net framework and msdn once again to the rescue.
January 2013
3 posts
4 tags
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Microsoft Lync wants to use the... →
I ran into this issue yesterday and after a quick google the answer was found, archived here for my own knowledge.
From the answer:
gnomehole replied on
March 28, 2012
Fixed my own problem… in case anyone else runs into this.
I removed the keychains from my keychain access app, but even though they did not show there were still physical key files in the folder...
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Why does VS2012 always check out the sln when... →
This explains why whenever anyone opens up a solution they automatically check out the file with no changes.
December 2012
3 posts
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Bug Hunt: Always use radix in parseInt()
Is the bug valid?
Yesterday we received a bug report that one of our text fields were defaulting to 00 when the user enters in 08 or 09. Confused as to what could be causing this I fired up my various browsers and iOS simulator and was not able to duplicate the problem.
The Code
Looking at the code it was something like this:
1: var num = $(this).val(), //val() would be "08" or...
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Building TypeScript in Web Applications
The one thing I failed to mention with the AngularBanking demo application is how do we get the TypeScript files to build during a build of the application.
Well the first part is simply installing the plugin from the TypeScript site.
Unload and edit your web application project and add the following snippet to the BeforeBuild <target/>
1: <?xml version="1.0"...
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AngularJs, NancyFx, TypeScript, and BootStrap Oh...
An increasingly popular trend lately is to have the client handle rendering of your content. So long server side rendering you have been replaced with some fancy JavaScript libraries.
So what are we building?
Well as you might know I work at a credit union so my natural demo is something financial related. So we are building AngularBanking. A rudimentary online banking application that allows...
November 2012
5 posts
//build/ day 4 notes
Windows Store 8 and jQuery
Html and dom api changes
Cannot place script in inner html in winjs
You cannot use jQuery with external scripts in local context they have to be referenced locally
https://github.com/appendto/jquery-win8
Preview available of jQuery on git hub, because of the added restrictions had to fork the code to allow the use of jQuery this is hopefully only temporary they are...
//build/ day 3 notes
Type Script
Application scale JavaScript is hard
Typescript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
Any browser and host and OS
All JavaScript code is typescript code.
Optional static typing classes and modules
All of these optional components that simply disappear
Final result is plain JavaScript
Allows for easy use of module pattern
If you use...
//build/ day 2 notes
JavaScript engine for high performance
Always load scripts last
How to create a good test on jsperf
Know your preparation setup and tear down stages
Dont test Async things syncly
Use special options to enable this type of test
Don’t introduce randomness
Reset shared variables
Be aware that browser might have caching and pollute your results. Make sure to reset everything.
...
//build/ day 1 notes
Wiring Windows 8 for the Store
User expectations
Live tiles
Search
Capabilities
Plm
Windows helps make app predictable for users
If you do not set permissions correctly exception will be thrown.
App Container, sand box so you are only allowed access to. You want to test suspend and terminate you can trigger that via the process menu in visual studio.
Microsoft Design...
October 2012
2 posts
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Why Exception Shielding is Important
This morning I was modifying one of my projects code to address a bug that was reported yesterday and since I am a good developer I needed to seed a test account into a 3rd party vendors system for an integration test. I must have done something slightly wrong and was greeted with this error message.
{“Server was unable to process request. —-> Cannot insert duplicate key row in...
September 2012
3 posts
Cheat sheet for TFS2010 -> TFS2012 upgrade
Prerequisites
Have Team Foundation Server 2010 installed
TFS is connected to SharePoint
You have sysadmin rights to the sql server instance that contains the TFS databases
You are a farm admin for SharePoint
Stop IIS on Application Tier
SharePoint Server- Uninstall TFS210 from the share point server
Install TFS2012 on the share point server – Reboot might be required
Run configure to...
Read the changelog
Recently I upgraded JSON.net from version 3.5 to version 4.5.8 via Nuget. Today we received an issue that dates are now appearing as m/d/1969. I immediately fired up firebug and to my surprise the json being returned is no longer in the format of ”\/Date(1198908717056)\/” but now in “2009-02-15T00:00:00Z” which is causing my logic on my UI to display the date incorrectly.
...
July 2012
1 post
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June 2012
1 post
5 tags
EntityFramework and a View with no Primary Key
So today I decieded to create a very simple console application that would help me dump some data to a file. Since my data was in SQL and I wanted to alter the relationships a bit I figured EntityFramework and a bit of linq magic might do the trick. I was wrong.
What happened
Well I quickly created my linq query since it was only going to be ran once I simply called .ToList() on my three views...
May 2012
2 posts
April 2012
2 posts
Visual Studio DEV11 ALM Roadshow
Feedback Tool
Standalone feedback tool while the person reviews the application. Not part of visual studio but actually a small application that handles that feedback. Similar to the test manager and records video and audio of the person reviewing the feature. All launched from an email.
Allows for informal feedback text area.
These feedback items are artifacts of the project. Comments and...
February 2012
5 posts
January 2012
21 posts
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Fundamental functional techniques
It has been awhile since I posted something on F#, but I have been busy reading part 2 of Real-World Functional Programming. This so far has been one of the harder chapters. Not because I couldn’t understand what is going on in the examples it was more of a mind shift I didn’t quite yet grasp fully. Most of the examples were very easy to follow however the sheer functional aspect...
Real-World Functional Programming, Chapter 7...
Here is the complete example in chapter 7 in Real-World Functional Programming.
open System.Drawing
type TextContent =
{
Text : string
Font : Font
}
type Rect =
{
Left: float32
Top: float32
Width: float32
Height:float32
}
type ScreenElement =
| TextElement of TextContent * Rect //like TextElement(textContent, Rect)
...
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Umbraco and a MVC3 Child Application
In the never ending quest to get child applications to work under umbraco do not forget to update the web.config under \Views
\Views\web.config
<system.web.webPages.razor>
<host factoryType="System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory, System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage">
...
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Real-World Functional Programming, Part 1 (Chapter...
Chapter 4 was actually quite fun! This chapter goes through a simple application that reads data from a csv file and produces a pie chart. The chapter starts off using the F# interactive console all the way to creating a F# application that creates a simple GUI.
Some notes while building the application
By the use of pattern matching you can create generic functions. In C# you need to specify...
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Real-World Functional Programming, Part 1
Well after a few days I finally was able to finish Part 1 of the book Real-World Functional Programming. So far I am really enjoying this book.
Like my other posts about F#, I am going to share a few snip its of things I learned while reading the first section. This will hopefully reinforce the knowledge I picked up.
Chapter 1 - Thinking differently
Functional programming is the Evaluation of...
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Forms Authentication, the Event Viewer and Event...
Recently we deployed our application using Forms Authentication and after a few days of use we discovered that our Event Viewer is littered with Informational messages relating to 4005.
Event code: 4005
Event message: Forms authentication failed for the request. Reason: The ticket supplied has expired.
Event time: 1/19/2012 7:16:33 AM
Event time (UTC): 1/19/2012 12:16:33 PM...
