Oliver Mezquita

I'm a Software Engineer, graduated at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) on 2008. I've been doing web development for quite a long time now, and I consider this to be not only my profession but my hobby as well. So this is why I decided to start my own blog, so I could share some of the things I enjoy doing. I hope my blog can be helpful in some way or another!

Homepage: http://www.undisciplinedbytes.com

Posts by Oliver Mezquita

Unit testing

August 3, 2010 - 16:02

Posted in ASP.NET, backend, software engineering | No Comments

A unit test is a piece of code written with the sole intention of verifying that a routine or function behaves as we’re expecting it to. Unit testing attempts to provide a collection of tests to check every method of the different classes the developed program may contain works flawlessly. The general idea is that, [...]

Improving software quality: automatic testing

July 13, 2010 - 16:14

Posted in ASP.NET, programming, software engineering | 11 Comments

Providing high quality software from early stages in the software project is the key to a successful project. We must check the quality of our software in every single release and make sure it’s meeting our expectations. It’s much easier to code having quality requirements in mind from the very beginning than finishing a module [...]

HTML 5 C# Web Sockets server and ASP.NET client implementation

June 22, 2010 - 16:02

Posted in ASP.NET, HTML 5, backend, jQuery, javascript, programming | 10 Comments

In the previous post we saw that Web Sockets are the best invention since sliced bread: they bring to the web the bidirectional full-duplex communication traditional desktop applications have been enjoying for quite some time now. It solves many current problems, and enables much more powerful applications than current standards.
I’ve developed a very basic Web [...]

HTML 5 Web Sockets

May 30, 2010 - 19:07

Posted in ASP.NET, HTML 5, backend, javascript, programming | 7 Comments

Following the series of posts discussing AJAX calls, today we’ll see what is going to be its evolution: Web Sockets. It’s still a very new technology, and support is starting to be implemented in most major browsers and web servers. But don’t count on using it yet, since most of the clients of your web [...]

AJAX call using ASP.NET Web Services

April 27, 2010 - 21:17

Posted in ASP.NET, Uncategorized, backend, jQuery, javascript | 5 Comments

We’ve already seen quite a few ways of performing AJAX calls: web pages, HTTP Handlers and Page Methods. Today we’ll see how to request data from the server using ASP.NET Web Services.
Web Services are a very general model for building applications, and can be implemented for any operation system that supports communication over the Internet. [...]

AJAX call using an ASP.NET Page Method

April 6, 2010 - 20:26

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We’ve already been through AJAX calls using simple web pages and HTTP Handlers. But there’s still more ways to request data from the server. Today we’ll take a look at how to do so using server methods.
ASP.NET allows you to define methods in the code-behind of an ASPX page. This is very helpful in situations [...]

AJAX call using an ASP.NET HTTP Handler

March 23, 2010 - 15:56

Posted in ASP.NET, backend, jQuery, javascript | 11 Comments

We’ve already seen how to perform an AJAX call using just a simple ASP.NET web page. Now we’ll see how to do it with an HTTP handler instead of a web page.
But, what is an HTTP handler? Well, as its names suggests, it is an element that handles HTTP requests. Well, but that’s what an [...]

AJAX call using an ASP.NET web page

March 9, 2010 - 15:56

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We already saw what an AJAX call is and the different types there are. Today we’re going to see how to perform an AJAX call using a regular web page at the server. The page will be the connection between the client’s web browser and the server. It will take care of performing the operations [...]

Different ways to use AJAX in ASP.NET

February 23, 2010 - 15:53

Posted in ASP.NET, backend, jQuery, javascript | 1 Comment

Today’s web applications are unthinkable without AJAX techniques. These techniques provide an improved user experience, and tighten the gap between traditional desktop applications and web applications. This means that mastering AJAX technologies is a must for anyone who’s doing serious web application development. In this article I’ll explain the basics of AJAX, and I will [...]

PHP or ASP.NET?

February 9, 2010 - 15:58

Posted in ASP.NET, programming | No Comments

The other day a friend of mine was telling me he was going to start a new project. He wanted to develop a new web app from scratch, and was telling me he was going to use PHP. He did have experience with ASP.NET from some other projects, so I told him to use this [...]