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Building an application to track expenses in one hour using GeoChat

On the previous post I wrote a few lines on the basic usage of the accepts_nested_attributes_for method in rails models. I strongly recommend reading that post before this one if you haven’t. Although there is a standard way for deleting items, there...

Rails makes it easy to build HTML forms associated to a certain model. Simply using the form_for instruction on the view, writing a simple update method in the controller and setting validation logic on the model, makes standard CRUD operations incredibly...

In a previous post I mentioned a few ways of dealing with i18n of strings in ASP.NET pages with gettext. Now it’s time for javascript code. Although javascript code in ASP.NET pages can be internationalized using the <%= %gt; syntax, pure js files...

In the last post I blogged about using gettext to internationalize strings in C#. However, using the Messages.T("Hello world") syntax in ASP.NET can be a little cumbersome. Luckily, ASP.NET controls can work as a solution for this issue. Adding a...

Using GNU Gettext for i18n in C# and ASP.NET

How do I unit-test a class which depends on HttpContext?

One of the issues that arose during the integration process was how to maintain user identity when integrating between different systems. During the exercise, data was moved around anonymously, without having more than a display name describing an...

Anyone who is starting almost any kind of software nowadays should be thinking on internationalization, even more if it is web-based. The effort required to prepare a system for localization (the difference between internationalization and localization...

Declarative jQuery (with Microsoft Ajax)