I have to say, even though my manager is not a fan of Telerik's Kendo UI because of it integration with jQuery, the Kendo UI grid system is pretty sweet. It's a grid system for displaying tabular data that has so much functionality built in that has made my job so much easier. I was originally going to build out my own table but there are so many requirements for the current project that there is no way I could have accomplished everything in the timeframe the project was scheduled to launch in. The grid does horizontal scrolling if you can't fit all of your columns in a confined space, which I can't. There is support for multiple languages and cultures which I need. There is pagination, sorting and filtering that can ping the server to get more data as needed. Add to this the ability to add a drop down menu to reload the grid with data from other data sources without having to redraw the whole grid and you have a sweet little workflow manager. I did have a couple of issues that I was able to resolve with transparencies and IE8 but those were caused by the non-Kendo modal code I am using. The previous modal didn't have these issues but when we migrated to a newer version, the issues occured but were fixable by overriding the transparency settings in the CSS.
Friday April 04, 2014
Finally after 4 weeks of presenting my project in the UI weekly meeting for code review I got a reprieve this week as I had to break down some of my functions into smaller ones so they could easily be unit tested. Tried writing unit tests today and have no idea what I am doing. Will need a crash course next week.The dead line for the projects I have been working on are coming up. Only need to fix some bugs and JS Doc and unit test them and I should be good. Saw a presentation and my projects are two of the big pieces of the release. It will be good to see them out the door finally.Finished the main story in Batman: Arkham Origins and was only 30% of the way through the game. Finally found all the Enigma blackmail tapes but still have a bunch of other things to do and some of the achievements may require replaying the game. I'm starting to burn out on this game.
