Dynamically Localizing a WPF Application at Runtime

Tim Williams Articles, Programming, Tutorial Leave a Comment

Today, almost every facet of life deals with technology. Because of this, there is a necessity for applications to be accessible and usable by all people around the world. This means that software developers write need to provide a tailored experience for the end-users that is easy to use, provides output, and effectively captures user input. One important part of that process is localization, which will be explained later on.

The main focus of this article is to provide a solution for localizing a WPF application at runtime. This allows users of the application to change the culture/language of the UI elements through interactions, such as button clicks or menu items.

Kendo Grid: A Primer For First-Time Users

Brian Jacobs Articles, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Tutorial, Vue.js Leave a Comment

This is my take on working with Kendo Grid in a Vue 3 project. While I have not explored the grid functionality to the nth degree, these are some things I like about the grid, some difficulties I had implementing it, and some workarounds and quirks I have discovered. Specifically, I will be referring to the Vue implementation of Kendo Grid and the Native Components. This is not to be confused with the Kendo UI for Vue Wrappers.

Kendo Grid is a very robust tool for displaying data in table format. Out-of-the-box features include sorting, filtering, and pagination. Simply defining the column schema with a few config options will have the grid set up quickly. A few features that require more coding and configuration are column collapsing, adding a toolbar, displaying aggregated fields, using custom cell components, implementing column groups, and exporting grid data to a file.

Let’s get started!

Code a Christmas Game ... with Cats!

Code a Family Christmas Game …With Cats

Ryan Brewer Articles, Community, Tutorial 1 Comment

Have kiddos at home for break this time of year? If so, I’m sure you’ll appreciate this quick, fun boredom killer. We’ll create a game for you and your family, and the best part: your kids can create the whole thing!

Play as the Christmas Tree Star, who’s been knocked off the tree by the (crazy) house cat. Like every Star, you’re far from helpless. You’ll jump your way back to the top. But beware! The (truly crazy) cat is still inside the tree …with black eyes open wide …hunting you.

JASMINE SPIES UNIT TESTING

Unit Testing Using Jasmine Spies

Todd Leininger Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming, Testing, Tutorial Leave a Comment

Unit testing is an important part of the development process. It gives us the ability to know that our code is working as intended and can also let us know if we may have broken something that we didn’t even think of.

With the help of Jasmine Spies, we can make our test setup easier, and we can give ourselves more options for what we can test against. Hopefully, this will give you a good starting point for all your Jasmine spying needs!

Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi

Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi

Lou Mauget Articles, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Kubernetes, Tutorial 3 Comments

Kubernetes, or k8s, is an important container orchestration platform. In this blog, I’ll describe creating a workable Kubernetes cluster implemented on a stack of four Raspberry Pi boards. In the end, I’ll have provided an outline of how I created it and I’ll show how to replicate a stateless app across Kubernetes pods running on the nodes — the Pi boards.