HtmlTextWriter is very nice tool to generate HTML in C#, but it lack ability to get generated HTML as a string. Here is a simple solution: HTmlTextWriter uses internally StringWriter which uses StringBuilder. So you first create StringBuilder and StringWriter, pass them to HtmlTextWriter and when you are done you simply call ToString() on the …
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Have your ever wanted to add simple tweet with url of interesting blogpost you are currently reading? I’ve found a simple javascript bookmarklet which does just that. It opens a new twitter popup window with generated message so you can customize it if you want to. And if you select part of text in web page it …
If you get some amount of work done in 8 hours, will you get done double if you work 16 hours? This is of course an extreme case, nobody can work for 16 hours and still maintain focus. But some manageres and developers do think that when in need they should work long overtime hours. …
During my rather short period of Pair Programming I have learned something valuable, but there is also something I’ve learned after that. Michal Tehnik left the company and I continued to work on code we wrote and then refactored and polished together several times. It is probably the best piece of code we have now …
Several times I programmed in pair and I want to share my experience with it. What are the main benefits of pair programming? The code is of better quality, because there is always the other person watching over your shoulder and seeing what you have overlooked. Wikipedia says that defect rates are about 15% to …
jQuery.extend() is a very powerful function for merging two objects or for extending jQuery with custom plugins. There is but one little gotcha to think about: as in most function calls the order of parameters matters 🙂 Following two fragments of code yields different objects var a = { aa : ‘1’ , bb : …
This might come in handy. Simple function which converts local time to UTC (Universal Coordinated Time). It accepts single argument of type Date. //converts local time to UTC (Universal Time) function toUTC(/*Date*/date) { return Date.UTC( date.getFullYear() , date.getMonth() , date.getDate() , date.getHours() , date.getMinutes() , date.getSeconds() , date.getMilliseconds() ); } //toUTC()
I have recently wasted almost two hours trying to figure out why some HTML based report wont display logo in its header. I am quite sure this will make someone else’s life easier, so I am sharing it. The problem is that most browsers ignore background-image and background-color. So whatever I did I could only …
What kind of environment is best for work? Do you work in such? When I worked for IBM I was confined in a cubicle in a big open-space. It was an experience I don’t want to go through again. The environment was “noisy by default”, there was a continuous sound-spam of chatting people. It was …
Recently I have stumbled across an interesting startup called Memolane. It is an unorthodox aggregator of various social media sites, YouTube, RSS feeds et cetera. I find it very useful. We all publish and share bits of our life to various sites, with different groups of friends, and Memolane collects them all back together, so everything is …