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Riffing on: Avoiding the Uncanny Valley of User Interface
Inspired by: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000869.html
Never has a truer word been spoken. Trying to shoehorn desktop application UI paradigms into a web based application never ends …
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extJS: VType for validating a time
I needed a VType for validating a time using the extJs framework in the format HH:MM (24 hour clock, no 'AM' or 'PM') and couldn't find one that quite fit the bill, so a tweaked version is:
Ext.form. …
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Reflecting on Excel
Gabhan Berry has some really interesting (and potentially useful!) stuff that mainly centres around programming with Excel. One of the most interesting entries is one regarding dealing with Optional …
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Delusional Ramblings of an Angry Coder
Take a look at Mark: Ramblings from a programmer, if you dare. Whilst some of the points he makes are good, for example that Visual Studio doesn't inherently encourage programming best practice, i.e. …
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Describing ASP.net Control properties declaratively
One of the beauties of the ASP.net system is the way you can declaratively describe controls that sit on the page, and also the contents of collections that they contain as properties, as shown as an …
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Getting the values from a Datatable column
I couldn't find any better, reusable way to get all the values from a specific column of a datatable, strongly typed than the snippet below:
internal class DataColumnConverter<T> { …