Web applications

Single-Page Applications (SPAs) are web apps that interact with users by dynamically updating the current page rather than loading whole new pages from a server. This strategy creates a fluid web experience by avoiding the interruptions caused by…

You’ve probably already heard of Nim. It’s a modern language with a syntax that will remind you a bit of Python, but it’s both statically typed and compiled. It supports multiple programming styles (functional, object-oriented, metaprogramming, and…

Jeff Sanchez, a consultant at Spiria Boston, explains how React, combined with Redux and ES6/ES7 in a Node environment, provides an intuitive, flexible and undemanding environment for quick-and-dirty Web application development. This article…

As we all know, technology and software are constantly changing and evolving. But one thing never changes: the success of a software project depends on its adoption by users.

Selecting the right framework is a difficult decision that is fraught with consequences, since any change of course in mid-development can be costly.

If you’ve ever been involved in developing the architecture of a Web application, you’ve probably had long discussions, or even heated debates, about the most appropriate technology for the project…

Now that we’re all living under the Cloud, the software industry is looking for the next big thing. According to some, microservices are it.

Given today’s evolving work environment, including telework, the advantages of cloud-based work tools are that much more attractive.

In a recent project, we had a list of items that had to provide additional information when clicked. We decided to use popovers, that allow the selection of content by the user.

The Anniversary update for Windows 10 (i.e. version number 1607) lets you deploy Windows containers, which can be used with the popular Docker virtualization platform. But first things first: what’s a container? Put simply, it’s the equivalent of a…

Earlier this week, I attended #fstoco, a Web-oriented conference held in Toronto where I had the privilege of making a presentation. This event is organized by Full Stack Toronto, a non-profit organization. The conference covers a wide range of…

It seems that the Cloud has taken the world by storm; yet everyone seems to be a little foggy as to what it is exactly. Simply put, Cloud computing consists in using computing or storage resources remotely over the Internet, the Cloud being a…

ASP.NET Core Identity is a membership system that enables you to add login functionality to your application, allowing visitors to create an account and login with a user name and password from Facebook, Google or other external login…

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In Microsoft SQL Server, the collation can be set at the column level. When you compare (or concatenate) two columns having different collation in a query, this error occurs:

Wallaby.js is an intelligent and super fast test runner for JavaScript that continuously runs your tests.It reports code coverage and other results directly to your code editor, immediately as you change your code. We’ll provide an example with…

This blog post will give you a general idea of the new authorization techniques provided by claims used by Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and ASP.NET 4.5. I will try to explain what they are, how they get imported into your application, and how…

Ever seen this error message before?If so, the reason is that when you created your Asp.Net MVC project, you selected the “Empty” template and added the MVC references as follows:There are two ways to fix this issue.

Last week, Montreal was host to the DevTeach conference. DevTeach has historically been a conference for Microsoft developers, but last week’s edition branched out a bit by including a mobile training module and a JavaScript training module, dubbed…

One of our projects this year was geared at optimizing internship placements for pharmacy students.The ProblemEvery year, several hundred pharmacy students must complete an internship as part of their classes. These internships are completed in…

Located in Portland, OR, NodePDX really embraces the Cascadia spirit. The organizers claim that Portland is the home to some of the most talented developers in the world and after spending 3 days with the NodePDX crowd, I have no problems believing…

I stumbled upon SystemJs today. I thought it would be interesting to include modules in ES6 format, so I gave it a try and here are some of my findings.

Joel is going to speak on Web Sockets and tunnels of light… or to describe it more specifically more and more, people seem to be obsessed with real-time data. But what does real-time mean in the world of REST servers and one-way communication? Most…

This article aims at describing the importance of compatibility levels when it comes to SQL Server. Hopefully, by the time you finish reading, you’ll understand why you get errors in your applications when you upgrade your database from one version…

One can never overstate the importance of quality design for in-house applications. But it is so much easier to sell graphic services or ideas for sites and applications for the general public (“B2C”) than for internal use.

Ruby on Rails, or RoR, the free MVC Web framework, appeared on the market in 2005 and quickly gained pre-eminence for Web application development, seducing developers with the ease and elegance of its functional prototype building. RoR’s star waxed…

Google Drive REST API Overview The Drive platform gives you a group of APIs along with client libraries, language-specific examples, and documentation to help you develop apps that integrate with Drive. The core functionality of Drive apps is to…

So you want to use the ASP.NET SQL Membership authentification system but you’re constrained by data access rules. Well, you can create your own provider instead of using the default SqlMembershipProvider, no matter which way you access selected…

I was adding a new function to an existing application, and I needed to first produce reports using a Windows service, and put them in a repository so that I could consult them using the web application, making it possible for me to analyze the data…

This article is not intended to exhaustively describe unit tests, but rather to promote a clear understanding of their purpose, and serve as a warning to developers who often confuse unit testing and integration testing (that includes myself, when I…

Have you ever asked yourself if it was possible to display some HTML content in an ASP.NET MVC application, using another way than through a traditional MVC view? This article will cover that exactly. The principle is to short circuit the views…

As information technology becomes an ever-larger part of our lives, it is becoming ever easier to access Internet content from all over the world, and developers are increasingly creating multilingual sites to reach a wide audience. The following is…

During the course of their work, many developers have had to create charts in view of exporting them to a PDF report. Developing these charts was quite onerous due to having to create an image for display in HTML code, then recreating it on the…

The goal for this blog is not to show you how to add reporting features to Visual Studio 2010, but to help you download the right installation files and avoid the time-consuming pitfalls that come with the misleading information that exists on this…

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I experienced an issue after downloading a new version of the Microsoft MVC framework DLL. I want to quickly share my solution with you. I was using version 3 of the ASP.Net MVC framework, and the problem arose after I performed the following…

There are a couple of C# tools and frameworks that I have tried out over time and would like to share some information about. While the information is pretty basic, I hope it will pique your curiosity and be useful to you. 

Whether you like it or not, JavaScript has carved out a place for itself in contemporary computing. It has become a bit of a must. But where does it come from? How did it go from being a second-rate language to one of the most widely used languages…

My build was failing due to moving to a new build machine. We do have custom packages that are used internally and they could not be found by NuGet on the new server.

In 2009, Microsoft launched their new application framework ASP.NET MVC 1.0. We could finally use Microsoft technologies and apply good web practices. Despite this, ASP.NET MVC had its flaws. To overcome its shortcomings, several respectable…