Growing web apps, guided by tests
Exploring “Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests” in context of web applications development with Rails and rich UI. I keen to build sample app but am I on the right track or missing the point?
Read on →Streamed upload example with Swift and Node.JS
Let me show you an example which allows to play with streamed upload (also known as multiplart upload) right in XCode Playground with Swift language and Node.JS server.
Read on →Implementing hybrid hosting model
In previous post I’ve introduced concept of hybrid model which allows to scale web applications, such as magento, horizontally with a minimum effort and investments. And now I’d like to show you quick implementation example.
Read on →Magento scalability made easy
Read on →In a situation when vertical scaling isn’t flexible and horizontal is expensive the hybrid model comes to the rescue.
Efficient iteration of the new feature
Developers often presented with the problem followed by complete UI design or specification, which, beside the original problem, often covers additions which might improve overall user experience regardless the level of importance.
Read on →Get access to printers from web application
Let’s say we’re developing web-based POS system, where receipts needs be printed on the special kind of printer, but we don’t want user to deal with printer confirmation dialog, which will appear each time receipt need be printed due to the nature of web browsers.
Things will get even more complicated when we find that POS workplaces has to be equipped with tablets instead of normal PCs
How could we eliminate those issues?
Read on →Meet the KISI IVR
Read on →Interactive Voice Response system for unlocking doors with just a phone.
CoffeeScript does not allow loose equality
Today learned that CoffeeScript doesn’t allow loose equality, so, whenever you
use == or is it will compile to JavaScript’s === and that’s by design!
Add validation of uniqueness for the existing attribute
Let’s say we have a City model and corresponding UI enabling user to manage
the list of cities, eventually we discovered that forgot to add validation of
uniqueness for the city names and some users was able to create duplicate entries.
No panic! Let’s fix it now!
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