Also see: New Assembly, Old .NET (and Vice-Versa) Also see: The 2 Technology Magazines You Should Read Also see: Java Frameworks State of the (dis)Union. Actually, I didn’t make it to be fun or silly, but rather to create a neat little client-side application for a good friend of mine. Could have just as easily [...]
March 24, 2008
Sometimes you just have to make something fun and silly. The chance tree converted to javascript…
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Note to self: Blog about using Service Broker
Also see: Interested in Artificial Intelligence? What about Wiki’s? Well, now you can have both. Also see: CERT C Secure Coding Standard Also see: Exception Handling in Running a Business Just a note to myself to do a braindump on all this Service Broker shiznit I have been playing with lately. Potential discussion topics: MessageTypes, [...]
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Data Types a la Carte
Also see: There can be only one… with data Also see: UI design Also see: A quick update on me. Data Types a la Carte. Wouter Swierstra. This paper describes a technique for assembling both data types and functions from isolated individual components. We also explore how the same technology can be used to combine [...]
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C# 3.0 Lambdas and Type Inference
Daniel Cazzulino recently wrote a blog entry whose main focus was on building pipelines using iterators in C#. Towards the end he showed a slightly irritating problem in C# 3.0. He wanted to write this: var transformer = x => new { Original = x, Normalized = x.ToLower() }; However, the C# compiler complains because [...]
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Reporting Services administration changes in Katmai (v.Next)
Also see: When Will Foreign Ownership of US Sports Teams Start ? Also see: 2,433 Unread Emails, I feel your pain.. Also see: Publishing: Good reviews, bad reviews, and hurting oooh so many feelings. Brian Welcker posts some information on changes they are consindering to how you will administer Sql Server Reporting Services in the next version, [...]
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From C# to Java: Part 4
Also see: Snippet Compiler update As a member of Microsoft’s VSIP program, we have been creating source control plugins for the Visual Studio line of products for eight years. As I started my recent foray into the Eclipse world, I was eager to explore the area of plugins over on this side of the fence. [...]
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LINQ – The Uber FindControl
Also see: Trust Microsoft with Claimspace (my response pending) With a simple extension method to ControlCollection to flatten the control tree you can use LINQ to query the control tree: public static class PageExtensions { public static IEnumerable<Control> All(this ControlCollection controls) { foreach (Control control in controls) { foreach (Control grandChild in control.Controls.All()) yield return [...]
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Natural Sorting in C#
Also see: Win friends and influence your team Jeff Atwood recently posted about natural sorting. This is all about making sure that strings that contain numbers sort numerically. I’m slightly surprised to see that he wants to call it alphabetical sorting. Surely by definition, alphabetical sorting is defined by, well, the alphabet. This is an [...]
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JSR-203 more New I/O APIs – NIO.2
Alan Bateman who forms part of the JSR-203 expert group — the latter of which focuses on the new generation Java I/O APIs or NIO.2 — weighs in on a series of issues in and around these API’s which are set to from part of Java SE 7. Also see: A Quick Fix for the [...]
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DevWeek 2008 Silverlight Precon Demos
Also see: Passing the Community Torch: In Search of a New Chief Executive in Redmond Fritz Onion and I just finished the pre-conference ‘Day of Silverlight’ talk at DevWeek. Demos can be downloaded from http://www.pluralsight.com/fritz/demos/DevWeek2008DayOfSilverlightDemos.zip http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2008/03/10/devweek-sl-demos
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