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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...

March 2015

30 Mär 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 ...

23 Mär 2015

Accessing Field Configurations in JIRA for changing field description

Field configuration defines behavior of all standart (system) fields and custom fields available in JIRA installation.

Each field in field configuration has:

  • description that appears under the field when an issue is edited,
  • visibility rule of the field,
  • option whether the field is required or optional,
  • renderer for text fields.

Field configurations allow to make configurations of fields for projects to have different behaviour in these projects.

Sometimes a field should have the same behaviour in all projects, but going through all of them manually is uncomfortable process. So it can be automated by using JIRA API. The example is ...

13 Mär 2015

A Guide for Upgrading to Ruby on Rails 4.2.0

As you might have already heard, the latest stuff for upgrading rails was finally released at the end of the last year, viz. 4.2.0 was released on Dec 19, 2014. Well, here is the quick overview of its major tools:

Active Job 

It is a common interface on top of queuing systems like Resque, Delayed Job, Sidekiq, etc.

Active Job is a framework for declaring jobs and making them run on a variety of queueing backends. These jobs can be everything from regularly scheduled clean-ups, to billing ...