Ivan Zlatev

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dev4good – Developing for a Better World

Posted by on 4 July, 2011 1 comment | Views: 271

Last weekend (2-3 July) I attended the first ever dev4good – a charity hackathon where developers try to solve charity problems in a weekend. It took place in Hammersmith, London in a amazing venue on the riverside: Three charities came …

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Featured on the home page of ASP.NET

Posted by on 3 July, 2011 1 comment | Views: 248

Really exciting for me is that a few days ago my series on Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC got featured on the home page of the ASP.NET web site. I just wanted to say thank you to …

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Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC – Part 3: Knockout JS

Posted by on 29 June, 2011 3 comments | Views: 2,636

In Part 1 of this series I discussed the problems that we face when implementing an editor for a variable length, reorderable collection and reuse our server-side ASP.NET MVC views, model binding and validation. In Part 2 of this series …

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Custom Knockout JS binding for jQuery UI Sortable

Posted by on 27 June, 2011 No comments | Views: 923

For the work in progress Part 3 of my Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC blog series I have created a custom Knockout JS binding that keeps a Knockout JS observable array in sync with a jQuery UI …

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Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC – Part 2: jQuery Templates

Posted by on 20 June, 2011 4 comments | Views: 1,918

In Part 1 of this series I discussed the problems that we face when implementing an editor for a variable length, reorderable collection and reuse our server-side ASP.NET MVC views, model binding and validation. And while the solution provided in Part …

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Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC – Part 1: ASP.NET MVC Views

Posted by on 16 June, 2011 25 comments | Views: 7,177

Introduction I have decided to write a short series of blog posts on editing collections and more specifically variable length collections in ASP.NET MVC. I will take two different implementation approaches: In Part 1 I look at implementing collection editing …

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Duke Nukem Forever – why all this bashing?

Posted by on 14 June, 2011 No comments | Views: 137

Just finished Duke Nukem Forever on my PS3 and I simply don’t get all this bashing and negative gaming site reviews. The game was very enjoyable and even though there were a few neat mini-puzzles here and there it wasn’t …

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Java BDD with JBehave and Watij in Eclipse with JUnit

Posted by on 25 May, 2011 4 comments | Views: 2,868

The purpose of this post is to explain how to write BDD acceptance tests in Java using the gherkin syntax, run those with JUnit and implement them using Web Browser automation. Before I begin let me assure you that I …

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Triply: Day 11 Summary

Posted by on 12 May, 2011 No comments | Views: 66

11 days ago I posted the launch notice for Triply. The only other place where I publicized it was on the Foursquare Apps list here. It was very surprising for me that given no “advertisement”, no web design and very little features …

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Client-Side XSLT Transformations with JavaScript

Posted by on 12 May, 2011 5 comments | Views: 1,449

I bet you haven’t ever thought of doing XSLT transformations inside the Web Browser on the client-side, but anyway it’s absolutely possible (cross-browser) and it performs pretty well as well, which shouldn’t be a big surprise since the browser is …

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