Code Mansion

Smthng Wrng?

2010-04-01T19:35:00.000+02:00

Google releases Closure Tools

2009-11-06T23:00:00.004+01:00

Google just released it's own developer tools as open source,
with which eg. Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs are build.

Go to http://code.google.com/closure/.

Download the code with a Subversion client like RapidSVN.

Start RapidSVN and follow the next steps.

1. Go to menu 'Bookmarks',
choose 'Add Existing Repository...'
in the 'Repository URL'-window enter as 'URL' http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk.
These steps result in the following picture

2. Select the newly created bookmark,
choose menu 'Repository',
and click 'Checkout'.
Specify a 'Destination Directory' in the 'Checkout'-window,
eg. C:\_\closure-library-read-only

In the end you'll find all the files in the given folder.

Now start with the Getting Started with the Closure Library.

What are u waiting for?

Trying Windows Live Writer

2009-10-20T19:57:00.001+02:00

Playing with all kinds of free and/or open source platforms like eg. AtomSite
for a social webproject we have in mind.

Conclusion: Windows Live Writer goes together with my .blogspot-website.

Conditionally set an xsl:variable

2009-07-14T10:54:00.002+02:00

How to select content out of the current XML-payload
into an <xsl:variable />, based on some condition(s).

The input-XML looks like this:


<data>
  <item value="Foo" type="10" />
  <item value="Bar" type="10" />
  <item value="ALFKI" type="20" />
  <item value="Baz" type="10" />
</data>

Depending on the parameter 'condition' of the following template,
a different query is executed and it's results are stored in variable 'selection'.


<xsl:template name="makeASelection">
  <xsl:param name="condition" />

  <xsl:variable name="selection">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$condition = 0">
    <xsl:copy-of select="/data/item[@type = 10][position() = 1]" />
    </xsl:when> 
    <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:copy-of select="/data/item[@type = 20]" />
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:variable name="selectionSet" select="msxsl:node-set($selection)" />

  <xsl:foreach select="$selectionSet/*">
    ...
  </xsl:foreach>

</xsl:template>

The take-away is to
1. put content in the variable ('selection') using <xsl:copy-of ... />
2. use msxsl:node-set to address the content in this variable
3. use /* when iterating over the nodeset-variable

Visual Studio 6 and the TFS MSSCCI Provider

2009-07-13T20:43:00.001+02:00

Don't install the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider if your still need access to Source Safe.
After installation all Source Safe integration within Visual Studio 6.0 is gone.

The only remedy is to uninstall the MSSCCI Provider and reinstall Source Safe VS6 integration.

I learned it the hard way...

The Thoughest Developer Puzzle Ever

2009-07-03T00:50:00.003+02:00

Finally I am at #14! And U?

My (old) Car on Bing Maps

2009-06-18T21:53:00.004+02:00

See my old car on the parking lot at work on Bing Maps.

BingTones

2009-06-04T20:28:00.000+02:00

Microsoft has released 3 Bing-branded ringtones.
Download them here.

Good at IT and it'

2009-05-21T23:32:00.001+02:00

The Sun has published an anonymous study of 2,000 British men and women's sex lives. They have concluded that out of all jobs, we computer geeks make the best lovers!
(read more)

Hidden XSLT-editor features in Visual Studio 2008

2009-05-20T23:07:00.002+02:00

Debug <xsl:include>-d and <xsl:import>-ed stylesheets

Create a new registry-key 'XsltImportTree' under 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\XmlEditor' with value 'True'.
(read more)

Intellisense of template names, parameter/variable names, attribute set names, etc.

Create a registry-key 'XsltIntellisense' under 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\XmlEditor' with value 'True'.
(read more)

R.I.P.

2009-04-22T18:36:00.002+02:00

After 11 years of duty,
at the age of 19 years ...
:'-(

And I already did like StarWars

2009-04-09T19:58:00.000+02:00

Got Too Much Time on Your Hands?

2009-03-30T23:31:00.001+02:00

Omegle

nexpert

2009-02-10T22:32:00.002+01:00

A Fiddler Performance Analysis plugin. Get it here.

WTF: ASP.NET Tracing

2008-12-18T13:20:00.002+01:00

What The F*ck!

Using the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Logging.FileLogTraceListener for tracing within my (C#) ASP.NET website only succeeds if a folder 'C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Application Data\Microsoft Corporation\Internet Information Services\6.0.3790.1830' is present (read: on my webserver). For some reason the specified path, wherever it comes from (?), is used as a temporary location, even if the actual location is configured to be elsewhere.

Eg.:

<listeners>
<add name="MyTraceListener"
type="Microsoft.VisualBasic.Logging.FileLogTraceListener, Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
Location="Custom"
CustomLocation="c:\temp"
LogFileCreationSchedule="Daily"
BaseFileName="ArtImageProcessorJob"
traceOutputOptions="DateTime"
/>
</listeners>

Packing my Bags

2008-11-06T21:23:00.005+01:00

A Word a Day: URL slug

2008-08-19T20:36:00.004+02:00

A URL slug is a SEO- and user-friendly string-part in a URL to identify, describe and access a resource. Often the title of a page/article is a valid candidate.

The slug in the URL of this post (http://codemansion.blogspot.com/2008/08/word-day-url-slug.html) is 'word-day-url-slug'
(not that friendly, as it is autogenerated by Blogger).

UnitTesting an ASP.NET Web Application Project

2008-06-20T00:17:00.003+02:00

Having a solution named 'UnitTestingASPNETwebApp'
, with an ASP.NET Web Application Project named 'MyWebApplication'
and a Test Project with name 'MyWebApplication.UnitTests'
, U can test the 'Page_Load' method of a webform 'Default.aspx'
using 1 of following testmethods

[TestMethod()]
[HostType("ASP.NET")]
[AspNetDevelopmentServerHost("UnitTestingASPNETwebApp\\MyWebApplication", "/")]
[UrlToTest("http://localhost:3798/Default.aspx")]
[DeploymentItem("MyWebApplication.dll")]
public void Page_Load__OnChangeTitle_Succeed()
{
_Default_Accessor target = new _Default_Accessor();
target.Page_Load(null, EventArgs.Empty);
Page p1 = target.Target as Page;
Assert.AreEqual(p1.Title, "My Home Page");
}


[TestMethod()]
[HostType("ASP.NET")]
  [AspNetDevelopmentServerHost("UnitTestingASPNETwebApp\\MyWebApplication", "/")]
[UrlToTest("http://localhost:3798/Default.aspx")]
[DeploymentItem("MyWebApplication.dll")]
public void Page_Load__OnChangeTitle2_Succeed()
{
Page p2 = this.TestContext.RequestedPage;
PrivateObject po = new PrivateObject(p2);
po.Invoke("Page_Load", p2, EventArgs.Empty);
Assert.AreEqual(this.TestContext.RequestedPage.Title
   , "My Home Page"
   );
}

Default.aspx's codebehind class '_Default' looks like

public partial class _Default : Page
{
protected void Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Title = "My Home Page";
}
}

10 Years, 5 Months and 15 Days

2008-05-16T21:38:00.002+02:00

... of accident-free driving-experience ...
But this morning, faith turned.
That back seat door of my first 18 years old car will never open again ...

Some would see a sign in that other car's owner's cellphone-number ending with 666.

(Last) ConfigurationSectionHander using LINQ to XML

2008-04-25T22:23:00.002+02:00

Craig Andera's last ConfigurationSectionHandler revised
, using LINQ to XML.

public class XElementConfigurationSectionHandler :
    IConfigurationSectionHandler
{
public XElementConfigurationSectionHandler() {}

public Object Create(Object parent
    , Object configContext
    , XmlNode section)
{
    XElement xel;

    using (XmlNodeReader r = new XmlNodeReader(section))
    {
        xel.Load(r);
    }

    return xel;
}
}

Open Bedrijvendag, part II

2007-10-09T17:06:00.000+02:00

I even hit the TV-news...

My own Prison Break

2007-10-08T12:02:00.000+02:00

But I got out in 1.5 hours,
(B)eat that, Micheal Scofield!

Traditionally, the 1st Sunday of October in Belgium is
what-we-call-in-Dutch 'Open Bedrijvendag'.
A day on which companies open their doors for the public.
I was among the 300 lucky ones (out of 4000 requests)
allowed to visit Hasselt's prison.

A lifetime experience, long enough for 1.5 hours...

A Birthday gift from Charles Petzold

2007-08-31T20:37:00.000+02:00

Some time ago (Juli 11), I read a blogpost (lost the URL) about sending an email to Charles Petzold, in order to receive a free copy of his book '3D Programming for Windows - three-dimensional graphics programming for the Windows Presentation Foundation'.

Today the most amazing thing happened:
I found this signed book in my mailbox...
... And you have to know it was my birthday 2 days ago...

Coincidentally, I read about a similar experience here
and thought 'what are the chances to have that kind of luck'...
Especially for me living in a small country like 'Belgium' ...
(The shipping cost alone took about $16.80.)

I 'm sure I' m going to enjoy reading it
, as I'm doing with 'Applications = Code + Markup'
(I' m between chapter 24 and 25).

Thank you so much Mister Petzold!

iPod Nano in XAML

2007-08-30T16:03:00.000+02:00

Download the code here

Video Ads with Silverlight

2007-08-24T23:45:00.000+02:00

Google is experimenting with Video Ads
, as you can read here (New York Times) and here.

I, a software developer
, working for a news (and adversiment) publishing media company
, combined this with my Silverlight experiments.
This all resulted in this proof-of-concept video/Ad-player.

The Ad fades in at second 3, after having hit the 'Play-button'.
Clicking the Ad's image, pauses the video and opens a new browser-window to the advertisers site (click 'Play' again to resume).
A click on the white X-rectangle makes the Ad disappear.

PS: U need to have Silverlight installed for the demo.