Background Skills are in demand. Presentation skills, communication skills, leadership skills! Without a doubt, you cannot have enough of these. Unfortunately, we often forget about the little and less-glamorous skills, which underlie these high-value skills. Spelling? Grammar? Typing? What small-minded people would care about these? I didn't until
Appjangle has long supported Desktop Java, Android and JavaScript applications. However, with the most recent releases of client libraries (0.2.0 and 0.2.1) client libraries with more dedicated support for the Android and Desktop Java platform have been made available. Specifically, while before both Android and Desktop
Background Word is evil, is it not? Shouldn't we be converting files away from Microsoft's vile format into the open web world of Google Docs? Maybe so. But is Google Docs really that open? How many applications are there which allow us to VIEW and EDIT
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Do you want to see the future of book publishing? 'Discover Meteor' is an interactive book recently released by Tom Coleman and Sacha Greif about the Meteor JavaScript framework. And it's a book as dynamic as the framework it describes. In this post, I provide a
The Problem You can load the page http://www.google.com/analytics/ without any problem but when you click on [Sign In] the following happens: A yellow bar appears briefly on the screen before it unceremoniously turns blank. Solution This problem appears to be caused by the popular Chrome plugin
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Overall The book Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework by Isaac Strack provides a valuable resource to complement the online documentation for the Meteor.js framework. It features plenty of examples and integrates these into one comprehensive scenario; the implementation of a simple lending library. I would have loved
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Appjangle Tutorial for Java and JavaScript interoperability
Problem You would like to copy a HTML table into a spreadsheet processing application like Google Spreadsheets. However, the table you would like to copy contains empty cells. Just as in the 'Start_Time' column in the image shown below: If you paste this table, the rows which
In the course of writing up my thesis, I wanted to perform a simple source code analysis on the Appjangle code base. Since most of the code is as of now stored in a SVN repository, I used StatSVN for this purpose. StatSVN is really easy to use and generate
After I had recently completed a first version of interactive showcases for the Appjangle platform, it was now about time to give a little rework to the homepage. Arguably, it was a bit dull and, more importantly, not very informative – in particular in regards to giving an overview of what
James A. Whittaker, of considerable testing fame, has published both on the Google Testing blog as well as in IEEE Software an article on the so called '10 Minute Test Plan'. This test plan is also described in detail in the book 'How Google Tests Software'
When creating documents, tables and presentations, I am often looking for a simple symbol to express a 'tick' as in 'this is okay' or 'this is supported'. Especially the Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, ...) do not seem to provide such a tick symbol in
