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What it Takes to Get an e-Commerce Site Online

Getting an e-Commerce website online might sound like a huge undertaking,...

WebView Interactions with JavaScript

WebView displays web pages. But we are interested not only in web-content...

Google Maps API for Android

Google Maps is a very famous and helpful service, which firmly entrenched...

Unit Testing with RSpec

RSpec is an integral part of Test Drive Development (TDD) and its main id...

Client side JavaScript: Knockout in practice

When developing a web application that extensively works with user input ...

Accessing Field Configurations in JIRA for changing field description

Field configuration defines behavior of all standart (system) fields and ...

A Guide for Upgrading to Ruby on Rails 4.2.0

As you might have already heard, the latest stuff for upgrading rails was...

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17 Jul 2018

Nightwatch.js

Nightwatch was designed specifically for creating and organizing testing procedures for browser based apps and websites in JavaScript and run it on Selenium / WebDriver server.

24 Mar 2016

Cheat sheet: How to use Git

Either you are a proffessional coder, or you are newbie to programming, either you use Git every day long or you have recently explored it and now you’re finding it very helpful – definitly you have faced up with need to know some basic package of most often used Git commands.


14 Sep 2015

What it Takes to Get an e-Commerce Site Online

Getting an e-Commerce website online might sound like a huge undertaking, but it’s not as hard as you may think. In this article I’ll shine some light on 5 main steps necessary to launch your website into World Wide Web orbit.

22 Jul 2015

CSS 3D Transforms and Animations

CSS 3D Transform model was presented as a draft specification in March 2009. This model allows Web developers to create user interfaces more attractive and interesting using advantages of 3D.

03 Jun 2015

JmDNS (Java Multicast DNS) using in Android

In this article we desire to tell about connecting devices wirelessly. You agree that this is may be very helpful functionality for almost each mobile application. We can realize a lot of situations for this feature using.

20 Apr 2015

Google Direction API for Android

The Google Directions API is a service that calculates directions between locations using an HTTP request. Service provides different parameters for HTTP request. This API is designed for calculating directions for static addresses, and not designed to use it for real-time user input.

15 Apr 2015

Unit Testing with RSpec

RSpec is an integral part of Test Drive Development (TDD) and its main idea is to help in simplifying and automating the testing process for functionality which is being developed. It's like a technical task for a developer or draft of  functionality the developer wants to get in result and testing tool to check the functionality for its conformity with its original goal at the same moment. So here bellow very simple basics regarding Rspec testing and I hope it will helps to understand the usability of this tool in project development and maintainance.

To test behavioral characteristics special ...

30 Mar 2015

Client side JavaScript: Knockout in practice

When developing a web application that extensively works with user input – there is no simple and out of box solution to make your UI and data communicate with each other dynamically. That is exact type of work for  Knockout  a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g., changing depending on the user’s actions or when an external data source changes), KO can help you implement it more simply and maintainable.

Model-View-View Model (MVVM) is ...

01 Oct 2013

Additional means for data storage

Most modern browsers support cookies. For a long time cookies have been the only way to store data making it available after reloading a page. However, the means of storage on a client foresee hundreds of kilobytes and megabytes of data without sending it to the server for each HTTP-query as cookies usually do.   

However, cookies may be still used for session storage, for example.

localStorage is a built-in storage for pairs “name/meaning”. localStorage allows to save information between sessions without reading it by another sites because the access is restricted by a current domen.

General duration of action ...

11 May 2013

Design Icons for iOS Apps with PaintCode

PaintCode is a shiny little but yet powerful graphical tool developed by PixelCut, which seeks to facilitate the creation of UI elements for iOS and Mac OS in a really fancy way. The application is available in Apple App Store with a trial version as well. It is a drawing app that by using vector graphics generates all UI elements as Objective-C code in real time. You draw the shape and it produces the code that can be copied and pasted into your application in your own drawing method to display it on the screen. Let's get it on ...

11 Apr 2013

iOS UI that shines forever with UIAppearance and Core Graphic

Traditionally, developers build UI relying on resources included within the application package with a huge part of it as images, sprites, backgrounds and then by using built in API present the complex graphical interface on the screen. 

Since iOS 5 developers can finally change the tint and outlook most of elements without much trouble. The UIAppearance protocol was added to simplify custom styling of iOS application UI elements and the classes that support the UIAppearance protocol have access to an appearance selector. This selector returns the appearance proxy for the receiver. With this proxy you can call selectors like setTintColor ...