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janekk

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About janekk

dev for https://www.datacracker.com

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    Comment #8134491

    Here's a primer on survey data outfiling [1]. A good target would be to import a survey into SPSS (or you can use the open source PSPP for free) or - shameless plug - datacracker.c…

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    Comment #7570183

    I don't think so. It failed with Silverlight, and was nasty with ASP.NET webforms. Microsoft now champions ASP.NET MVC on the server and TypeScript on the client. They also use Typ…

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    Comment #6824794

    I'm worried this does not put usability first. In the example Edit form, I noticed two problems: 1) the radio button labels have not been linked using 'for' to the buttons, so clic…

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    Comment #6420520

    If you want to use it now and get full browser support, you can use the TypeScript compiler, which will compile into ES3 or ES5 targets. It also supports ECMAScript 6's classes syn…

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    Comment #6288832

    Braintree did not do AMEX in USD, last I talked to them a couple of months ago. How did you get this working? I'm very interested!

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    Comment #6286171

    Thanks thairu, patrick has sent me an invite. USD charging is definitely essential for SaaS selling to the US.

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    Comment #6282510

    D'oh, I had no idea, and here I am already having spent months talking to NAB in order to charge USD and support AMEX. Stripe seems a lot cheaper too in terms of fees. Stripe AU su…

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    Comment #6190546

    Ian, I agree that's the right mind frame to be in, but I notice they (DevExpress) didn't address it in their demo or docs. They have a 'wait' function that waits for a period of ti…

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    Comment #6185006

    I like the visual method of writing scripts, but having used Selenium + SauceLabs.com on a real app and dealing with functional browser tests every day, I'm concerned about: * Timi…

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    Comment #6184959

    I'm in the 'something similar' camp. This is functional testing. I use Selenium, an open source library for automating browsers via plugins. Personally I find it much more useful t…

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    Comment #6184931

    I agree, I don't care about config files, just want to see them write a simple test and see it run.

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    Comment #6178331

    We're running on Windows Azure - ASP.NET web roles (C#, TypeScript) talking to worker roles that do the statistical computation (C#).

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    Comment #6178158

    Hi, we made this app based on the idea that there are a lot of people who look at their basic survey results (e.g. what SurveyMonkey and other platforms provide) and don't get any …

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    Comment #6172512

    That's exactly what I've found. We ported all of our JavaScript code to TypeScript because of this, and are on a hunt to remove 'any' types. We found a bunch of real and potential …

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    Comment #6172462

    Yes, ~38,000 lines of TypeScript for my app ( https://www.datacracker.com/ ). The benefits of inferred typing is great. Mostly you just need to explicitly declare the types of your…

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    Comment #6150185

    This is executed very well. I love the natural language processing for diary entries. However I think you need to change your pitch if you want more incoming traffic. At the moment…

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    Comment #6114644

    Have you ever crafted a sign-up form for a paid app though? Requiring users go and check their email before they can proceed is going to kill conversions. Mail providers (I use man…