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

Object Oriented JavaScript II: the pattern

December 21, 2010 - 16:30

Posted in javascript, programming, software engineering | No Comments

Ok, now that we’ve covered the most basic concepts of JavaScript, we can now proceed to take a look at the pattern itself.
The first feature we need to implement is private and public members. Using closures, this is easy to achieve:

Object Oriented JavaScript I: the basics

December 2, 2010 - 11:06

Posted in javascript, programming, software engineering | 1 Comment

Today’s web applications are inconceivable without the use of JavaScript. It has become a fundamental part in modern web systems. A lot of time and effort must be put into client-side programming to make our application have that modern look & feel that JavaScript provides and we all like to see.
Until AJAX techniques emerged, JavaScript [...]

Are you up to date of the latest trends?

November 9, 2010 - 12:00

Posted in Documentation | No Comments

Are you aware of which browsers are used to visit your latest web application? Did you take that into account when designing it? Are you using the best tools that there are out there to do your job? Certainly, computer technologies evolve pretty fast, and what might have been the best thing last year, might [...]

Load testing

October 21, 2010 - 16:07

Posted in Test, software engineering | 5 Comments

There are different kinds of testing any application must have passed before releasing it to the public. We’ve already taken a look at Unit testing and GUI Testing. But another important kind of test you should test your application against is Load testing. Having undertaken and passed these three different kinds of testing will ensure [...]

GUI Testing

October 4, 2010 - 15:39

Posted in browser, programming, software engineering | 3 Comments

A very important thing you must do before releasing your web application into the wild is some sort of Graphical User Interface Testing. This kind of testing ensures that the interfaces between the client and servers execute in tandem. It is an important factor that these connections or interfaces work seamlessly without any failure or [...]

Unit testing

August 3, 2010 - 16:02

Posted in ASP.NET, backend, software engineering | 1 Comment

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 | 14 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 | 35 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 | 12 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. [...]