by Rahul Singla | Jan 27, 2018 | Coding, ExtJs, Tech, Theming |
As we recently started planning for upgrading one of our large enterprise applications (a CRM for the Travel industry) to latest version of ExtJs 6 to make it future ready, an immediate challenge was to enable multiple versions of ExtJs to co-exist on the same page...
by Rahul Singla | Jan 26, 2018 | .Net, Coding, SharePoint, Tech |
We were recently working on automating back-end processes on SharePoint for a client, and had chosen SharePoint PnP Timer Job Framework as our base SDK to build our background processes to enable them to execute against all versions of SharePoint, including online and...
by Rahul Singla | Jan 10, 2018 | .Net, Coding, Logging |
I was recently working on a bulk processor application which was using log4net for its logging needs (specifically the RollingFileAppender). There were multiple jobs executing in independent threads each having its own Logger instance. We wanted the...
by Rahul Singla | Jan 8, 2018 | .Net, Coding, SharePoint |
I was recently working on a SharePoint project and needed to figure out if an access control list (ACL) is replicated for a SharePoint object in database which is set to inherit security from its parent object. Functionally this won’t impact anything from an...
by Rahul Singla | Dec 23, 2017 | Marketing, SEO, Social Media |
After finishing my recent post on Creating font icon package for ExtJs, and sharing it on various social platforms using my individual account, I wanted to use Imbibe’s accounts to re-share my posts on respective platforms. Sure, that should be easy anyone would...
by Rahul Singla | Dec 21, 2017 | Coding, ExtJs, Tech, Theming |
As part of our recently launched Catalog theme for ExtJs, we wanted to incorporate custom font icons into our theme for consumption by our users. As you would know, ExtJs 6 ships with Font Awesome out of the box, which has a really nice collection of off-the-shelf...
by Rahul Singla | Mar 12, 2017 | .Net, Coding, Entity Framework, LINQ, Tech |
A few days ago, I was working on some Entity Framework stuff where I encountered the following logic for applying sort expressions to the EF query: var query = this.context.users.AsQueryable(); if (sort == "username") { if (sortDir == "ASC") { query = query.OrderBy(u...
by Rahul Singla | Mar 10, 2017 | Coding, Google, Google Apis, Javascript, Tech |
I was yesterday working with a colleague at Imbibe on a mapping platform which involved sending lookup requests to Google Maps Geocoding api and processing the response results to perform an overlap approximation to figure out whether the result areas were serviceable...
by Anjali Grover | Nov 11, 2016 | Tech |
From SIRI to driverless cars, Artificial Intelligence is the booming technology that enables machines to perform some cognitive tasks with same or even better efficiency than human beings. Be it as simple as greeting a guest to performing dangerous and laborious tasks...
by Rahul Singla | Jul 3, 2016 | .Net, ASP.NET, Coding, MVC, Tech, Web Api |
So I was recently working on an existing ASP.NET MVC project when we decided to expose some of the app’s data to mobile applications using WebApi. How difficult can that be (adding WebApi to an existing MVC project). I mean you add the reference to the NuGet...
