http://teera.seriyagroup.com/blog Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:59:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been a strong advocate for TDD for a bit over a year now. It's the thing that I would suggest to anyone who cares about improving their software development and ask me about it. Now, the benefits of TDD are well-known, yet I find many people are still skeptic ... http://teera.seriyagroup.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/12/take-the-tdd-pill-its-good-for-you/ I find Linq to comes in handy from time-to-time, especially when I refactor my code and try to shorten it. Consider this example, let's say I have a Book data that I want to dump into XML document. Now I have a Book class to represent the object.   ... http://teera.seriyagroup.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/04/populating-xml-elements-tree-with-linq/ From the feedback I got from ruby on rails course, there seem to be many students who find many core concept of ruby difficult to understand. So, the course mailing thread aside, I'll try my best to explain some of these concept in depth here. This post will be about ... http://teera.seriyagroup.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/29/module-and-mixin-revisited/ Less than a week since it began, many interesting discussions have been floating around ruby on rails course mailing thread. A great one in particular is the discussion on the OO-ness of ruby taken from the conversation between Victoria Pocladova and Raul Parolari. Consider this: "Ruby is an object oriented language ... http://teera.seriyagroup.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/25/everything-is-an-object-in-ruby/ I ran into a situation that I have to write JavaScript that execute only when the page is posted back. Currently there's no straight forward way in ASP.NET Ajax to check IsPostback from JavaScript. If you google around, you might find various way of getting this to work, like this ... http://teera.seriyagroup.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/18/client-side-ispostback-checking/ I've recently been appointed as the lead adviser for JavaPassion.Com's Ruby on Rails online training course by the legendary Sang Shin. I talked about this Ruby on Rails online course in my previous post. At the time of this writing, there are 998 registered students and will likely to hit ... http://teera.seriyagroup.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/12/giving-back-to-the-community/ In part 1 of this post, you can see how you can encrypted your ViewState and ensure its integrity across postbacks. A few more things you can do to beef up your ViewState security. ViewState validation with ViewStateUserKey It is possible for someone who got a hand on your ViewState data ... http://teera.seriyagroup.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/29/securing-your-viewstate-2-viewstateuserkey-and-custom-viewstate-persister/ I didn't pay much attention on the security aspect of ASP.NET ViewState until a few days ago when I got to use my friend's labtop. After browsing around, I could see that his web browsers cached some pages from ASP.NET website. So just for fun, I quickly downloaded ViewStateDecoder and ... http://teera.seriyagroup.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/28/securing-your-viewstate-1-viewstate-encryption/ We often use schema to validate XML documents. However, there are times when there's no schema available for existing XML data. I found out just recently that .NET framework can actually do this for me! So this is another "Oh..I didn't know I can do that" post. The key here is ... http://teera.seriyagroup.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/24/creating-xml-schema-from-xml-documentselements/ A friend sent a URL for Nerd Test to me. She got this from someone else and thought of me (..nice). Well, I know for a fact that I'm pretty geeky but never thought of myself as a Nerd. Sadly..here's my score High-Level Nerd. You are definitely MIT material, apply now!!!. Go ... http://teera.seriyagroup.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/21/how-nerdy-are-you-am-i/