Nuget in C++ rulez

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Source: own resources, Authors: Agnieszka and Michał Komorowscy

I haven't been programming in C++ for a very long time and I didn't expect that I would do it professionally in the foreseeable future. However, the life has different plans ;) Recently, I've joined an extremely interesting project in the area of the computer vision. In a while I'll try to write something about it.

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How to validate dynamic UI with JQuery?

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Source: own resources, Authors: Agnieszka and Michał Komorowscy

One of the most interesting task I developed some time ago was a library responsible for the generation of dynamic UI based on XML description in ASP.NET MVC application. The task was not trivial. The UI had to change based on the selections made by a user. I had to support many different types of controls, relations between them e.g. if we select the checkbox A then the text box B should be disabled and of course validations. In order to perform the client side validations I used jQuery Unobtrusive Validation library. I thought that it'll work just like that but it turned out that a dynamic UI may cause problems. Here is what I did.

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3 reasons why I don't use strict mocks

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Source: own resources, Authors: Agnieszka and Michał Komorowscy

The majority, if not all, of mocking frameworks provides 2 types of mocks i.e. strict & loose. The difference between them is that the strict mocks will throw an exception if an unexpected (not configured /set up) method was called. I prefer to use loose mocks because with strict ones unit tests are fragile. Even the small change in the code can cause that unit tests will start failing. Secondly, if you need to set up many methods a test becomes less readable. Now, I can see one more reason.

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