Old projects reborn - FileSystem2Html tool

As everyone in the IT business, I have quite a few of my own projects. Most of them rot in solitude and are rather dusty... So, I decided as a way of exercise as well as a check how have technologies developed and my own views on code cleanness, tests' quality and overall project usability, to make them more development-friendly.

In short - I'm reviving my projects (both university and personal ones) so that they are easy to setup, run and contribute to if there's a willing person.

I'm starting with this small project: https://github.com/leni-kirilov/FileSystem2Html/

What does it do:

- it's a simple Folder structure scanner

- it can build an HTML/XML report of the folder structure

- it can rebuild that folder structure elsewhere (without the content, obviously)

My "beautiful" swing UI

Very useful if you like a certain folder structure, and don't have the time to remove all the files or whatever. You can easily mimic it. Quite a simple app.

Now to the contribution part:

- It's an open source project 

- Java 8 required

- built with Maven 

- a list of TODOs and ideas where one can get started! I've listed ideas based on effort. 

I would start with the small ones. 

The project builds automatically and measures code coverage (yes, there are unit tests there!)
(Thank you Travis-CI, Coveralls and Coverity!)

So that's pretty much it.

I can't wait until I see someone energetic about such a tool

Best of wishes!
Leni

PS:

Please be gentle :) I know there's some pretty lame code out there!

DevReach 18+19 October Sofia, Bulgaria (part7)

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Dynamic State Storage Using the ASP.NET Provider Model

Interesting session about creating a storage for an application and making it with a unified interface.
Dealing with problems when you have same kind of storage collections.
Using the isolateUser, isolateProvider.

Nice design for his library.

HTML5 and CSS3

SVG vs Canvas
SVG is slower for animatons
Canvas is not suitable for low number of items which can be interacted with

-ms ; -o ; -moz ; -webkit ---- these are specific for certain browser, default is used otherwise

LESS - JS library that reduces and makes CSS easier when supporting different browsers
Modernizr - make your site supporting older browsers (IE6 >)

Recognize older/new browser --- the property "autofocus" -- tricky attribute

CSS3 can put round edges for rectangles; 3D shadows; rotate images ... lots of nice animation


Anti-patterns 
DRY principle - Don't Repeat Yourself
Assumption Driven Programming - don't assume something instead of asking the user
Dependency Injection principle
The God class - the one great class that does everything



L.K.

DevReach 18+19 October Sofia, Bulgaria (part6)

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HTML 5 crash course

HTML 5 is connected with everything that is modern and flashy today. 
Introduction of iPad is in the same day as the HTML5 introduction.
Adobe vs Apple conflict.

"Apple is becoming the most important company in the US"

www.html5rocks.com - some tricks, a site recommended.

Browser vendors love HTML 5 because they don't want their products to be 'old'.
HTML 5 is pushed into the history.

HTML5 is not ready yet. It's good

The sad facts:

60% of Internet is used with IE6, IE5 and IE7 - they don't support HTML5.
60% Windows XP
15% still use IE 6.
91% of the browser users use Windows - they have the grip

Silverlight updates are quicker - they are pushed with automatic updates with Windows.

In his oppinion "Html 5 > 4"

www.html5test.com - test the browser about html5 support
Chrome - 217 + 10 bonus
IE8 - 27 + 0 bonus
Opera 10.61 - 159 + 7 bonus

Microsoft will never get 100% for ACID3 test because they don't want to support SVG fonts.

Syntax:
HTML5 template is with a DTD... nobody validates it with a DTD. "A pain in the ass" - quote.
AJAX was never specified.... they reverse-engineered it.
HTML5 has a spec - that makes it a lot different. The error behaviour consistent.

He simplified the HTML5... - charset, language, DTD validation - cleaner.

New semantic tags:
Old way - meaningless IDs for "div" tag
Google statistics : code.google.com/webstats about names of ID
They took the statistics and used the mostly used words and make them special words. They made the best practices rules in HTML5.

WebMatrix - interesting free tool for building web sites. Part of the WebPlatform. It's a direct competitor to PHP.
Razor + MVC  --- "in a 6 months will be the hottest thing"

"Microsoft's primary goals this year - Azure, IE9 and HTML5"

Modernizer - javascript lib for audio
html5shim .code.google.com -- javascript for adding HTML5 tags to IE6 (which doesn't support it)

html5 - audio tag
html5boilerplate - best add-on pack for html5

"Silverlight version of video is adaptive to the broadband width"

Google created a site to refer to for fonts instead of distribute them in your own site as a local copy.

L.K.