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How to build your Angular project on Travis CI
Recently, I created an Angular App using Yarn instead of NPM. An information box popped up on GitHub suggesting to connect to a GitHub Integrations tool.
Using a HAL hypermedia API in an Angular App
Modern APIs are often realized in a RESTful way. Hypermedia Formats are trying to overcome this issue by providing a discoverable API. Hypermedia Application Language is one format and abbreviates as HAL.
Usability in Software Development Projects
The Custom Usability Index provides a possibility to measure the usability in software development projects.
Building a file explorer with Angular 2 and Electron
In this article we go over the process of building a simple file explorer using Angular 2 and Electron.
Building Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Angular 2 and Electron
In this article we introduce the process of building a hybrid Desktop App with Angular 2 using the Angular-CLI and Electron.
WPF Tricks: Context Menu via Behavior
Behaviors enable application designers to trigger changes in the program behavior with little effort and without interfering with the program code. This tutorial shows how to create a context menu by means of a behavior.
WPF Tricks: Coloring Icons at Runtime
This little trick enables you to color icons at runtime virtually any way you like, making different-colored icon sets unnecessary. The principle is very lightweight.
11+1 Design Principles
Software that offers not only functionality, but good usability as well, stands out among the competition in a positive way. However, achieving this is not all that simple.
Recipes for Test Automation (Part 2) – Data Salad
The test data always pose a particular challenge in manual testing, and even more so with respect to test automation.
The Dark Side of Parsing
Generally speaking, native database queries in an application complicate its maintainability and the possibility to develop independently of a specific database. Within the framework of a performance analysis of an old Java application with an Oracle database, we discovered another aspect that constitutes an argument against using this kind of query: the performance compared to prepared statements in the context of an Oracle database.