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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.

Web
5 min

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.

Web
13 min

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.

Cloud,.NET
2 min

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.

Cloud,.NET
3 min

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.

Usability
8 min

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.

Quality Assurance
4 min

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.

Java
4 min

What’s new in JUnit 5?

If you are a Java developer then chances are high you are using JUnit in your project – the most popular unit testing framework for Java.

Java
4 min

Recipes for Test Automation (Part 1) – Soup

A colleague recently approached me and asked me whether I know a recipe for good test automation. I told him that, just like with a good soup, it takes more than a recipe: The kitchen appliances, ingredients, and the cook are important as well.

Quality Assurance
3 min

Risks of Modified Cookies

Now, at the end of the year, cookies are increasingly circulating again. Being properly prepared can help you manage this risk.

Web,Cloud,Java,.NET
4 min