Web Development
On a recent project that I have been working on, we needed the application to be multi-lingual and localized for different countries. The best option for us on this project was to use resource files (.resx) and let .Net handle the rest for us. Now creating these resource files
Testing
I have always been interested in measuring web performance, and especially in measuring the improvements in performance. A while ago I attended a Selenium Meetup in London and heard an interesting presentation by one of the QA guys working at Mozilla. He talked about measuring the performance of a web
Web Development
As the web grows, more and more international businesses are turning to the web. The demand for a multi-lingual website has never been so great. There are currently a few pay services out there that offer a translation API and also a few free ones (Google and Microsoft). One
C#
Where possible, I try and program against interfaces as much as possible. I do this because I like Interface-based programming and because I like the characteristics that it brings to the table: reusability, maintainability, and extensibility. It also allows you to effectively test your code using Mocks. Whether or
HTML5
HTML5 has some fantastic features available to us, and I've tried to add as many of those features as I can to this toolkit. For more information on some of the features available to HTML5 form fields, please take a look at this article. I've added
Testing
I was recently browsing through some of the questions on StackOverflow and came across this question. The question was around how you would count the number of rows in a table using Selenium 2 and Python. If you need a bit of a background to Selenium 2, I have written
ASP.NET
I must admit, I've been a bit of a slow starter when it comes to Asp.net MVC 3. I am an avid fan of MVC 2 and haven't really taken the time to look at MVC 3 until now. Wow - I am impressed though! There
Web Development
Great news for those of you out there that use the MVC HTML5 Toolkit - it is now available to download as a Nuget package. If you haven't already had a look at the MVC HTML5 Toolkit, please read this article for more info or visit the Codeplex site.
C#
🚀 Update: See a modern version of this article using OAuth 2 here! 🚀 If you are a newbie to OAuth you might understand how confusing it can be at first! I started off looking at building a small application that consumed an OAuth service as a side project. I just dived
Testing
There have been many times when I have run a Unit Test that has failed and afterwards I wondered where it went wrong. The ability to see what occurred on the page or how it looked at the time would be a great benefit. I've been writing a
Testing
I have recently been looking into an awesome tool called Selenium. What is Selenium? Well, it's a suite of tools that you can use to automate web application testing across many platforms. I recently attended a Selenium Users Group at the Google London Head Offices where they discussed
Blogging
This has been my first year of blogging! Whew! 1 year and 42 articles later - I never thought I'd be writing this. I had always thought about starting my own blog to write some technical articles, but I just never made the time and always had an excuse