Diary of A Developer

Background First, I hope everyone knows that the form element in HTML is not a presentation tag but a functionality tag. I had to spell that out just so we are all clear. I've found that many web developers, me inclusive, often find ourselves entangled in usage of multiple redundant form elements on a page. Rather than clean out this clog, we simply leave it because " it after-all causes no one harm ". I was soon to to learn otherwise ... I was redesigning the interface for a legacy ASP.NET 3.5 webforms application ( only God knows how we survived the ages when this technology was the de-facto. I so much hate the tight coupling between then presentation and logic layers ). In order to jump-start the work, I quickly pasted the HTML from a previous project into the master page and updated the CSS and JavaScript references, then I copied the form tag including all the Content Placeholders from the old master page into the content area. After this, I noticed I ...

Background: I just recently upgraded to Windows 10, and I must confess, the overall experience immediately got me. I love the fact that our good old start menu was back and better. The tile one was much of a controversy although I have been indifferent about it all the while. I particularly love Cortana, the search assistant who made me remember the office assistants that used to come with the office suite back then. The euphoria I experience was a perfect disguise, however, for the ambush that was ahead. Issue: I went ahead to open VisualStudio and launched the project I was currently working on. I pressed F5 to launch it, only to ram into a jam! The project I still successfully tested only a day before now threw an exception. From my experience, and this situation hasn't proved me wrong, every Microsoft upgrade always has a catch somewhere. This particular one forced me to begin to rectify a fault in an application that was initially 'bug-free' before my u...