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Wafagy

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:59:55 GMT

A new design pattern is being forged into new interesting technologies and this is a re-arrangement of it's concepts. This design pattern has four main steps in implementation; and it is for unifying or making constraint on boundaries of somthing (some context): - Wrap it - Formalize it - Generalize it - Simplify it

OAuth for Beginners

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:14:54 GMT

For those unfamiliar with OAuth, here's a very short run-down... I'm skipping over some of the details but I think this should give you a taste for what it's all about - for a more well rounded introduction, check out this article on the OAuth.Net website.

Practical F# Parsing - Part 1, the Parse Buffer

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:16:03 GMT

A great first article on practical parsing with F#, demonstrating how to deal with a parse buffer providing the source of characters to be tokenized.

TDD and Dependency Injection with ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:31:03 GMT

Great post from Phil Haack about unit testing, mocking, injecting dependencies using an IoC container with the new MS MVC framework (delayed to the next week).

MonoRail Quickly - Screencast

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Well it was bound to happen at some point. My first screencast. It's a quick walkthrough on how you can get a baseline MonoRail solution up and running. Yeah, I know. Everyone's talking about MS MVC these days, and I'm certainly just as excited about it as anyone else. But MonoRail is still a very nice MVC framework that can be fully leveraged now.

MVC Framework Delayed

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:01:02 GMT

ScottGu has posted a comment on his blog stating that the MVC Framework has encountered an unexpected delay and will not be released today. From the sound of things we might see it on Monday.

Google Charts API: an ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:46:03 GMT

I decided to code up a small ASP.NET Server Control that uses the Google Chart API to put simple line graph charts on a page. This control exposes a subset of the Google Chart API to create Line Graph charts.

A Use for Extension Methods

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:16:02 GMT

Recently over on the alt.net list there has been alot (read: way too much) talk about extension methods. The running consensus seems to be that extension methods are great for extending someone else's API but have no place in code that you control.

Sample + Notes on using the Parallel Extensions Library

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:46:03 GMT

Recently Microsoft released the Parallel Extensions Library to aid developers in building solutions that leverage multi-core machines that are becoming the norm. This post provides a sample solution that highlights the benefits of running parallel code but also highlights some warnings about why this library is not a silver bullet.

LightSpeed Mats' Challenge Sample Download

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:16:02 GMT

A sample download illustrating how LightSpeed passes Mats Helanders ORM challenge.

LightSpeed 1.0 Released!

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:31:02 GMT

LightSpeed is a new domain modeling framework that really empowers developers to work more efficiently. No code generation is needed, no mapping files - it all just works. Supports heaps of database engines, takes care of sql generation and a lot more. The focus of LightSpeed is to help developers work faster and more effectively.

Writing a DSL using nested lambda's in C# 3.0

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:46:01 GMT

An example of creating a nested DSL using C# 3.0's Lambda's, allowing for tree-like declarations to be coded in a more natural fashion.

Windows Container tutorials

Wed, 30 May 2007 13:13:24 GMT

The castle projects gaining in popularity all the time (http://www.castleproject.org/) and now the Inversion of control container (collectively known as the MicroKernel & Windsor Container) is starting to get some attention. In that same vein here is a wiki which collates a series of tutorials on the Windsor container which introduce some of the key aspects of castles inversion of control container. Enjoy.