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Preface of Ruby/GTK2 Tutorial

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:48:25 GMT

GTK is accessible through several programming languages, such as C++, Guile, Perl,Python, TOM, Ada95, Objective C, Free Pascal, Eiffel, Java, and C#. This document covers Ruby/GTK2, the Ruby binding for the GTK library version 2. The reader should have some Ruby knowledge. It would be better if he/she has some experience on X programming, but this is not required.This document is still under construction. Do not hesitate to send comments or as questions to the mailing list. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

uuid UUID objects according to RFC 4122

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:40:24 GMT

This module provides immutable UUID objects (the UUID class) and the functions uuid1(),

C++ Functions Part II

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:56:08 GMT

Until now, in all the functions we have seen, the arguments passed to the functions have been passed by value. This means that when calling a function with parameters, what we have passed to the function were copies of their values but never the variables themselves. For example, suppose that we called our first function addition using the following code:

A Ruby HTTP Daemon That's Faster Than Mongrel

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:30:23 GMT

Thin is a new web server which has been written by Marc-André Cournoyer that uses the EventMachine, Rack and Mongrel libraries. EventMachine makes it super fast at processing network I/O, Rack makes it easy to integrate with existing Ruby Web app frameworks, and Mongrel helps it parse HTTP.

Call for help with the Code Camp server written using ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:16:03 GMT

Jeffrey Palermo has announced a call for participation in the open source "code camp" server project. If anybody has been involved with code camps before, they know there's limited resources out there for organizing one - this promises to be a great resource. But it'll only be as great as you want it to be! Contribute!

How to Use Hirarchical DataTemplates - Improved !!!

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:33:19 GMT

As it turns out, my latest post about DataTemplates was not the most efficient way to do this. I used a different Template for the root and a second one for the all the rest of the data....

Microsoft Sync Framework Support in Visual Studio 2008

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:01:03 GMT

How to add synchronization framework to your app in several mouse clicks in Visual Studio 2008.

Messing around with various ORMs

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Some good posts on using various ORM methods to implement a common requirement. Includes "How Tos" and conclusions on LINQ to SQL, NHibernate, SubSonic and ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3.

Ctrl-S in web.config in Visual Studio closes web.config file

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:16:24 GMT

If you've hit a bug in Visual Studio where you hit Ctrl-S/Save while editing a web.config file causes the web.config file to close, you're not alone. Looks like the ADO.NET Entity Tools Designer somehow mucked up the Visual Studio save option for web.config files.

Adding CSS Colors to Visual Studio 2005

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:50:50 GMT

One of my biggest pet peeves about Visual Studio, is that it displays a lot of HTML formatting errors as errors, instead of warnings, and one of the most common HTML errors that Visual Studio 2005 likes to display is the invalid color values, such as "AliceBlue", "Bisque", "CornflowerBlue", "Chartreuse" and "Linen" to name a few. Here's a quick and dirty way to solve this problem.

Lambda expression - predicate and projection

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:58:52 GMT

Some of the Lambda expression have particular name, which is based on their purpose. Predicate and projection are two type of Lambda expression, which have their name, based on the purpose.

LINQ In An N-Tier Architecture

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:49:01 GMT

Brainstorming an n-tier architecture using LINQ.

Web Application Foundation - Part 1 - Preparing a Continuous Integrati

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:15:39 GMT

First article in a series for setting up a web application in a continuous integration environment.

Using SingleTagSectionHandler Instead Of appSettings

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:31:02 GMT

As an alternative to appSettings you can use SingleTagSectionHandler to store settings in a web.config file. Learn how.

DataGrid Columns in ASP.NET 1.x

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:55:37 GMT

Working with the DataGrid component in ASP.NET 1.x can be an overwhelming task at times. With so many configurable options available and a myriad of different attributes and parameters to work with your head can be spinning in no time.

Is DHTML Dead?

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:53:42 GMT

September 1997 saw the release of Microsoft's Internet ExplorerT 4, an event which not only changed the face of web development but officially marked the start of the infamous 'Browser Wars'. Shipped with every version of Microsoft WindowsT (beginning with the final beta release of Windows 98), Internet Explorer soon became by far the most popular browser on the web. Version 4 saw the introduction of Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language (DHTML) support, combining aspects of scripting with Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) technology and thus allowing web developers the option of bringing far greater interactivity to their previously static HTML documents.

Spam proof your website using an HttpModule

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:31:01 GMT

The module replaces all e-mail addresses on your website with the mixed hex/clear text characters. It's perfectly readable by browsers and humans, but not for spam robots.

Using Oracle Forms

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:34:29 GMT

Oracle forms, is a component of the Oracle SQL database. The Oracle technology is to design and build enterprise application in a quick way and efficiently. This article is designed to give a short introduction to the Oracle Forms 10g toolset and the basic components of a forms application.

4D Database Tutorial

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:03:37 GMT

4D Server is the multi-user, cross-platform data and application server for 4th Dimension. With 4D Server, you can create and use multi-user databases and custom applications in a client/server architecture. The platform-independent client/server architecture seamlessly manages databases for both Windows and Macintosh 4D clients.

Views on Vista : Vista Express Upgrade

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:01:01 GMT

Buy a Vista-capable PC today and get an upgrade when Vista hits the shelves in the new year. The manufacturers currently taking part in this offer are

Introducing the Visual Designers

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:50:51 GMT

Meet the Visual Studio 2005 designers-Application Designer, Class Designer, Deployment Designer, Logical Datacenter Designer, and System Designer. Excerpt: First to set the scene: The Object Management Group (OMG) has a licensed brand called Model-Driven Architecture (MDA). MDA is an approach to MDD based on constructing platform-independent UML models (PIMs) supplemented with one or more platform-specific models (PSMs). Microsoft also has an approach to model-driven development, based not on the generic UML but on a set of tightly focused domain-specific languages (DSLs). This approach to model-driven development is part of a Microsoft initiative called Software Factories, which in turn is part of a wider Dynamic Systems Initiative.

Subtext Halloween Pumpkin

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:01:03 GMT

A member of the Subtext development team carved the Submarine logo of subtext on his Halloween pumpkin.

Speed up web services using the SoapDocumentMethod attribute

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:01:02 GMT

The power of using web services as a means to create large connected systems are enormous but sometimes it can be a performance bottleneck. Here's a simple way of speeding it up.

Systems Integration: No Assumptions

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:51:03 GMT

There are many sayings about assumptions and I'll let you fill in your favorite. Regarding Systems Integration, the hard lesson I've learned is not to assume the other system will properly filter or handle a specific constraint. For example, Windows systems use a carriage-return-line-feed to mark the end-of-a-line. However, UNIX systems simply use a line-feed to mark the end-of-a-line. This is not to say that UNIX systems can't handle files containing CRLF's. It just means that most UNIX Systems just use an LF to mark the end-of-a-line.

Microsoft XPS Essentials Pack

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:01:02 GMT

Microsoft has an XPS Reader/writer pack with an XPS IFilter available for download