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ASP.NET MVC – Cindy Potvin
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Maker of web and Android applications. Blogs about how developers learn and grow. Say hello on Twitter at @CindyPtn. There are 6 posts filed in ASP.NET MVC. This is page 1. Using the jQuery UI datepicker with ASP.NET MVC. I wanted to start the real code for my side project. So I figured I’d try my hand at integrating the jQuery UI datepicker to my form. That way, I’ll be able to make sure that jQuery UI is properly included in the application. After this, I created a input box using the. Div @Html.La...
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Android – Cindy Potvin
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Maker of web and Android applications. Blogs about how developers learn and grow. Say hello on Twitter at @CindyPtn. There are 17 posts filed in Android. This is page 1. How to get started with Android development – Basic structure. In a previous article. A good place to start understanding an application is the manifest. The. File links all the parts of an Android application together, including:. The activities contained in your application,. The theme you use,. Activities and the java folder. The acti...
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JavaScript – Cindy Potvin
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Maker of web and Android applications. Blogs about how developers learn and grow. Say hello on Twitter at @CindyPtn. There are 4 posts filed in JavaScript. This is page 1. Basic JavaScript arrays reminder. A standard JavaScript array is most often initialized with the bracket notation. There is also an. Object, but using the. Var fruitsArray = [];. Inserting new items at the end of an existing array is done using the. Removing the last item at the end of an array is done using the. Looping in an array fr...
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Side Project – Cindy Potvin
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Maker of web and Android applications. Blogs about how developers learn and grow. Say hello on Twitter at @CindyPtn. There are 14 posts filed in Side Project. This is page 1. Embrace your weirdness and stop worrying. Once you’ve reached the point where you’re a proficient programmer with a good understanding of a useful tech stack, you’re now faced with the sisyphean task of Keeping Up with New Tech. If you try to be close to the trend in the hope you’ll stay relevant for the hiring market, it̵...
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General – Cindy Potvin
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Maker of web and Android applications. Blogs about how developers learn and grow. Say hello on Twitter at @CindyPtn. There are 32 posts filed in General. This is page 1. Writing a book: how to work on many projects. After quite a bit of pondering, writing and editing, I shipped the Learning as a Software Developer. Spoiler: making a commitment to write regularly was the best way to make progress. I’m aware this makes me less effective than batching, and that it takes more time to complete some proj...
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Debugging – Cindy Potvin
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Maker of web and Android applications. Blogs about how developers learn and grow. Say hello on Twitter at @CindyPtn. There are 3 posts filed in Debugging. Figuring out how the CSS of a website works using Firebug – Screencast. That’s where tools such as. For Firefox or the. In Chrome comes in. Among many other great features, they allow you to see which rules are affecting a particular element on the page, and to modify them on the fly. Here is a screencast on how to use. But here is a problem that occur...
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Saving an image in a SQLite database in your Android application – Cindy Potvin
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Maker of web and Android applications. Blogs about how developers learn and grow. Say hello on Twitter at @CindyPtn. May 26, 2015. May 26, 2015. Saving an image in a SQLite database in your Android application. If you want to have a better idea of the performance. What you really want to do in that case is keep only the path to the image in your database and save the image in the internal storage. Here is an example of how to add an image to an existing report, saving it in the internal storage and keepi...
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Minimalist programming for the web – Cindy Potvin
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Maker of web and Android applications. Blogs about how developers learn and grow. Say hello on Twitter at @CindyPtn. July 7, 2015. In ASP.NET MVC. July 7, 2015. Minimalist programming for the web. There are many aspects to minimalist in a software project, from your technology choices from the start to good coding practices when the project is ongoing. Keeping you code simple. Also, you can use returns to leave methods as early as possible to reduce the levels of indentation and make code easier to read.
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Programming – Cindy Potvin
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Maker of web and Android applications. Blogs about how developers learn and grow. Say hello on Twitter at @CindyPtn. There are 42 posts filed in Programming. This is page 1. Embrace your weirdness and stop worrying. Once you’ve reached the point where you’re a proficient programmer with a good understanding of a useful tech stack, you’re now faced with the sisyphean task of Keeping Up with New Tech. If you try to be close to the trend in the hope you’ll stay relevant for the hiring market, it’...
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HTML – Cindy Potvin
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Maker of web and Android applications. Blogs about how developers learn and grow. Say hello on Twitter at @CindyPtn. There are 2 posts filed in HTML. Figuring out how the CSS of a website works using Firebug – Screencast. That’s where tools such as. For Firefox or the. In Chrome comes in. Among many other great features, they allow you to see which rules are affecting a particular element on the page, and to modify them on the fly. Here is a screencast on how to use. Adding a favicon to a site. Using the...