I’ve recently become addicted to pallet wood projects on Pinterest, there’s something beautiful in breathing life back into old wood, and best of all it’s free. After finding a free source of pallets I’ve tried my hand a couple of projects, some shelves for the bathroom and a pallet wood stool, I was pretty happy with the results so I thought I’d try my hand at something more substantial, a coffee table.
Read ArticleCompared to other browsers, IE’s JavaScript console is pretty lacking in it’s ability to log objects, they just appear as [Object object]. As a work around for this below is a shim that will JSON.stringify any objects that are passed as parameters to console.log (or it’s sister functions like error, warn…).
Read ArticleIf your JS function needs to return a Promise but doesn’t do any asynchronous activity, you may be tempted to use the static Promise.resolve() function rather than instantiating a new Promise object. Be aware that doing this will change the way javascript errors are dealt with.
Read ArticleFor those familiar with JavaScript Promises, jQuery’s Deferred.fail() handling can act unexpectedly. Standard Promises implementations allow the first catch handler to deal with the error and then return to normal execution flow (see JavaScript Promises: There and back again). jQuery on the other hand appears to execute all fail handlers, in the order they were defined with no chance to recover normal flow.
Read ArticleHere’s some useful templates for managing Scrum projects using Excel. Why use Excel? For simplicity. Sometimes great software and tools are necessary, sometimes they just over complicate the process.
Read ArticleBackbone.Spark provides computed property support for Backbone.js, the goal of the extension is to make computed properties behave in the same way as a normal attribute so your other code doesn’t need to know the difference.
The latest version of Backbone.Spark and examples can be found at GitHub
Read ArticleIt bugs me when developers check in files to TFS that haven’t been modified. It’s easy to do, you open a file, edit it, change your mind and ctrl-z it. Now you have a checked out file with no changes and when you do your next check in you’ll probably check that file in too, unless you’re really on the ball and compare each file manually first. TFS makes no distinction between checked in files that were modified and those that weren’t, which makes the job of reviewing code that much harder.
Read ArticleSo you’ve been working on your code from Team Foundation Server (TFS), made changes then realised you should really have started a branch for it.
I couldn’t find a good tutorial anywhere for how to do this so here’s the best workflow I found.
Read ArticleThis post is based on Entity Framework 4.1 Code First Fluent API.
I have an Entity Framework model being used in the business layer called Patient, it has a collection of dependent entities called Responses, when a response needs to be deleted I simply remove it from the collection and expect that it’ll get deleted from the database. It doesn’t.
Need to perform validation on a model’s property based on some other state of the model? Here’s a way to achieve it using the IValidatableObject interface and data annotations.
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