Cast everything in a C# enum to a space separated string!

public static string Render()
{
   var values = Enum.GetValues(typeof(Fixture));
   string spool = values.Cast<object>().Aggregate("", (current, value) => current + value +
         " ");
   return spool.Trim();
}

There does not seem to be a good way to decorate a textarea with readonly and still be able to "select all" on its contents in iOS.

I went Googling for a way around this problem today and found some pseudosolutions, but none of them panned out.

overflow-y: scroll;

...as a CSS style will put a vertical scrollbar on a div. overflow-x: scroll; will moreover put a horizontal scrollbar on a div. Please note that the addition of overflow-y: scroll; alone will also empower horizontal scrolling if you have a string of unbroken copy that is wider than the div itself present within the div such as, perhaps, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

sniff and set HTML element styles with jQuery

$(function () {
   var loop = function () {
      var style = $("#brain").attr('style');
         if (style == "display: none;") {
            $("#brain").attr('style', "display: block;");
         } else {
            $("#brain").attr('style', "display: none;");
      }
   };
   var interval = setInterval(loop, 2000);
});

Styles.Render versus Scripts.Render

@Styles.Render("~/Content/css")
&
@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/modernizr")

 
 
 
 

...will both go fishing in BundleConfig.cs in the App_Start folder of an ASP.NET Web API with MVC Visual Studio 2013 project. Where they will find...

 
 
 
 

bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/css").Include(
   "~/Content/bootstrap.css",
   "~/Content/site.css"));
&
bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/modernizr").Include(
   "~/Scripts/modernizr-*"));

 
 
 
 

...respectively. It is important to note the difference in the HTML that Styles and Scripts spit up to the browser however. The stuff above gives us back...

 
 
 
 

<link href="/Content/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="/Content/site.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
&
<script src="/Scripts/modernizr-2.6.2.js"></script>

 
 
 
 

...respectively.

mytextarea.setSelectionRange(0, mytextarea.value.length);

...is another way to NOT solve this problem. Hiss.

It turns out there is a way to spin a timer to wait for a JavaScript promise to resolve, you just have to use a piece of the DOM as a middleman.

widget.kickOffPromiseToUpdateTextArea();
var loop = function(){
   var textarea = widget.ourTextArea;
   var characterCount = textarea.innerHTML.length;
   if (characterCount != 0) {
      clearInterval(interval);
      alert('made it!');
      goDoSomethingElseWithFeedBack(textarea.innerHTML);
   } else {
      alert('not yet!');
   }
};
var interval = setInterval(loop, 6000);