Do you feel like passing callbacks and setting scopes everywhere makes your code messy and difficult to follow? Promises can make your code more readable, easier to debug and understand, and also a easier to test. What is a promise though? Simple promises The idea of a promise is that you request someone to do …
Author: Matt Goldspink
I'm a web developer based in the UK. I'm currently UI Architect at Vlocity, Inc, developing UI's on the Salesforce platform using a mix of Web Components, Angular.js and Lightning.
Hackday 2011 – London Borough Smackdown
Back on March 26th I was invited to a government hackday by Meg and her uni mates. The aim of the day was to get into groups and make use of government data to produce some application, ranging from useful tools, visualisations of data or making fun things with government data. We had 6 hours! …
A bit more progress on the itunes themed UI
Got the grid loading using WebWorkers to improve performance and interactivity (note the loading status in the bottom left of the grid). Also add playlists to nav tree on the left and began to style the grid a lot more like itunes.
New Subsonic Web UI!
So a quick post about a new Subsonic web UI I’ve been working on based on Itunes. Here’s a sneak peak at it: >
Can’t boot into Windows XP after installing Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid Lynx)
I upgraded to Lucid a few months ago but have not been able to use my windows partition since. Everytime I select it from Grub2 it just goes to a grub style prompt and I can’t do much. I finally found a solution here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:Boot_Sector which worked beautifully first time and I’m now back into …
JSON, JSR-303, Spring MVC and Ext.js
So I thought I’d post this in case others hit it. If you want to Spring MVC and POST JSON from an Ext JsonWriter to the server and have it populate your bean model and also get validated by JSR-303 validator then you’ll need to do a little work because it doesn’t work out of …
Re-visiting Spring, Ivy and Maven – copy and paste configs
So its been a while since I did any Java development at home and having done enough at work I figured I would get a basic ivy setup with all the regular dependencies that I use for 90% of the projects I do at the firm and am likely to do at home so I …
Sencha touch, YQL and BBC essential mix
So following on from earlier post this week about writing an Ext app which uses YQL to show the BBC radio1 essential mix tracklisting I decided to re-implement the same thing but using the new sencha touch library. Here it is: BBC Essential Mix Trackisting for Android, Ipad and Iphone I’ll post later this week …