Caching with memcache
In general, if we were to add some manual caching to our system, there are some steps we need to take: 1. Try to get that value from cache. 2. Check if the value was retrieved. 3. If it wasn’t, get it...
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Ok, so after checking how the basics of Angular work on a single page and the different ways to create a controller in Angular it’s time to do what angular is meant to do: create a client’s side...
View ArticleFirst steps with Knockout
As Knockout seems to be there by default with MVC4 and MVC5 and its creator is now working with Microsoft it seems wise to have a look at it and check how good it can be to go the MVVM way....
View ArticleGetting into Bootstrap!
Bootstrap is another javascript library to help us making our websites better and simpler. It’s main core is to be a handful set of CSS styles to make your website automatically responsive, this is,...
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MVC5 with Bootstrap 3.1.1 LESS files
MVC5 already comes with Bootstrap and LESS by default, but unfortunately it doesn’t come with Bootstrap LESS files to custom them in case you want to do that. Luckily Osowicki created this template...
View ArticleQuick Introduction to LESS
These are some of the features LESS is offering you: Creating variables You can save a value on a variable and use it later, quite useful to set colors: @myCustomColor: #567; @primaryColor: blue;...
View ArticleIntroduction to RequireJS
RequireJS is a library made to help us loading different javascript files in one go, improve page load, configure their dependencies, etc. It really becomes quite useful now that having to include so...
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Creating directives with Angular
One of the main points of angular consists on adding functionalities to your html elements, so that instead of setting the effects the jQuery way: selecting the element and making that happen or adding...
View ArticleAdding video src with Angular
Well, well, well… if you try to add a video to your page and use Angular to set its URL… you may discover that Angular doesn’t allow you to do that. This is because Angular blocks some possible hacking...
View ArticleAvoid event propagation in Angular
I had a button inside a box that had an “onclick” feature, which means that both the button and the box had an “onclick” listener. On clicking the box everything worked fine, but on clicking the button...
View ArticleCreational Patterns
Singleton This pattern consists on making sure that there is only one instance of an object and provide a global access to such instance (this would be an static object in C#). Prototype Creates a...
View ArticleAdding Google Maps to angular using RequireJS
You would think that as angular has been made by Google it will just fit with Google Maps… well, not totally. But at least there are a couple of nice plugins out there that do the trick. That said,...
View ArticleUsing Unicode characters to improve your website!
Using HTML unicode characters can help you reducing the amount of images on your site, just using the right HTML code and you can get this: ✔ or this ★ Doing that is as simple as adding its unicode...
View ArticleC#.Net DAO Access class template
Something I had around there: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Configuration; using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient; namespace Blabla.Data { public interface...
View ArticleChecking if an object is empty in EcmaScript5 / Javascript
I was getting a JSON response from a server request that can contain just an empty value (this is, nothing, nothing de nothing that we Spaniards say). On checking if the object had anything within I...
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Style your map with Snazzymaps!
I just found this page by accident and looks so awesome: Snazzymaps. It has several templates to style your Google Maps on your page so that it looks more elaborated. You can adapt the map to concrete...
View ArticleArchitectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
From the University of California, by Roy Thomas Fielding: Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. A bit old but clear and concise. More Roy’s publications.
View ArticleThe RESTful way
The idea of building your website services in a RESTful way consists on using the HTTP protocol to determine the Action you are going to perform instead than some Action name on the URL. This way, we...
View ArticleInstalling Node.js with Karma and Mocha for Visual Studio
Node.js Please download the installer (.msi) from their downloads page. There’s also an .exe but it didn’t work very well to me. You need to install it as an admin, so open cmd as admin then go to the...
View ArticleDisplaying multiple pages with Angular
Ok, so after checking how the basics of Angular work on a single page and the different ways to create a controller in Angular it’s time to do what angular is meant to do: create a client’s side...
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