Doing a bit of testing last week, I have found out that the source code for the Game Of Life JavaScript Implementation is not working with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7).
It turns out that IE7 doesn’t support the forEach construct, and in while rewriting it, I noticed how the code becomes so much uglier and less readable, which led me to think about the programming language evolution.
Recently I have come across my old implementation of Conway’s Game Of Life in JavaScript I have played with a few years ago, had a long look and I didn’t like it.
At all.
In close collaboration with the client, a new breed of portal closely integrated with forum was created.
The integration with phpBB was a critical point of development, and the end product fully exploits this.
The content is on German, check it out.
There are situations where you need to pass multiple values for the same parameter to the server, here are some patterns.
This can be handled by passing many values in one parameter with a common delimiter, or by passing multiple values as the same parameter. Here are examples with the GET method, for the POST it works the same.
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Microsoft Word happens to be the text editing application of choice for many of my clients. And they would like to post the content to web, so I still find myself in a situation where I need to export a Word document to HTML.
There is an option to “Save document as Html” in Word that results in big, convoluted, HTML file full of errors. Also, there is a bit of inline formatting where I would like the format to concur to the website formatting instead.
So, a good result would have no or very little formatting, and as simple as possible markup.
On a lot of projects, I use NUnit for unit testing, usually I create a separate project that contains only the tests.
There tools that integrate fully with the Visual Studio, like ReSharper or TestDriven.NET, but they cost money and you can’t run them on Express editions.
So I’ve made this useful shortcut to easily run it for the current (test) project. Screenshots are made on Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional running on Windows 7.
In today’s interconnected world, it’s important that online applications support different cultures.
Even if most of us that spend a lot of time online are accustomed to the USA date and number formats, people always prefer to see numbers and dates formatted in a familiar way. People don’t like to think about if the date’s first digit is day or month, or if it’s decimal delimiter or digit grouping mark.
The date 03/02/2010 means completely different thing in Australia and USA – it’s February the 3rd in the former and March the 2nd in latter! (dd/mm/yyyy vs mm/dd/yyyy)
Even if we assume that the common internet user can read the shown format based on the website’s supposed location, localization and internationalization (i18n) could greatly improve readability and usability.
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