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Selling the house

2016-09-14T23:01:00.001-04:00

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=6SH1cnAxWLr&brand=0

The Counted

2015-06-07T13:56:00.001-04:00

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#

Why Ember

2015-04-08T08:08:00.001-04:00

http://blog.yodersolutions.com/why-i-recommend-emberjs-over-angularjs/

Ember.js sucess story

2014-11-22T13:40:00.001-05:00

http://www.talentbuddy.co/blog/building-with-ember-js-at-groupon/

Asynchronous Repository Pattern

2014-03-18T13:34:00.001-04:00

I've been thinking a bit about network and other I/O latency problems and the traditional repository pattern. Started toying with the idea that a repository facade could explicitly expose a "promise-like" interface like the following. public interface IRepository<T, in U> where T: class, new()

Adhering to the DRY Principal in Javascript/Knockout

2013-06-10T10:56:00.001-04:00

One of the things that honestly "hurt my feelings" when developing an HTML5 replacement application awhile back - was that the ViewModel needed to be declared in multiple places. Once in the service and again in the client. Of course, all the demonstrations during tech-week seemed to gloss over this with very simplistic applications. Required reading - Pragmatic Principles Now, there may be

WSDL service returning DataSet? Seriously?

2013-05-17T12:06:00.000-04:00

SyntaxHighlighter.config.bloggerMode = true; SyntaxHighlighter.config.clipboardSwf = 'http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/clipboard.swf'; SyntaxHighlighter.all(); Just got a 'last-minute' TODO - have to establish another interface for state agency. Like any good developer - I grab the WSDL and 'prop-up' a test service. Imagine my surprise when I see

More Hibernation Fun :: Dialect does not support variable limits.

2013-05-14T12:25:00.001-04:00

Had a sad-panda moment when I went to Linq to NHibernate with the following (rather straight-forward) syntax. ... var e = r.Where(w => w.Name.Contains(searchBy)).Select(c => c).Take(5).ToList(); ... I bombed out on a simple test - with the exception being "Dialect does not support variable limits." Rather broad base of Google hits on this one... Seemed like something wrong with the

NHibernate 3.x changes

2013-05-12T09:31:00.002-04:00

Working on a sample project for a perspective company - when enabled NuGet for FluentNHibernate, and saw a breaking change in the NhQueryable constructor. (I've been building from the source for awhile so this one passed me by, 2.x - 3.x introduced some breaking changes) This breaks: ... public ReadOnlyRepository(ISession session) {

Why did I ever switch to MSTEST?

2013-05-12T08:51:00.000-04:00

Ran into a wicked problem with MSTEST today, resurrected an old project went to run the tests - and boom - nothing appeared to run - very similar to the "cylon" symptom I talked about in 2010. Eventually ran into this wonderment which gave me at least an indication of what was happening (and only 2 days after latest VS2012 update too...hmmm) So I waded through the following links to try

OpenStack

2012-11-07T09:16:00.002-05:00

A BrightTALK Channel

2012-09-23T13:59:00.001-04:00

Entice Me Opening my eyes and looking around to see what is available. Willing to relocate for the right opportunity or area (I like the coast). I bring a great deal to the table and I'm kinda fun to work with...let's see what we can do for each other. Curriculum Vitae/Resume Zerply-Profile

Ninject + MVC 4

2012-06-08T12:17:00.000-04:00

Nothing earth shattering here - but was wrestling with current WCF services and trying to leverage the delicious newness of the WebApi with Ninject 3.0. A bit of pain and a few tears later... .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: Consolas, "Courier New", Courier, Monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin:

2012-04-13T16:44:00.001-04:00

Well - its been awhile. I've been mostly tweeting and/or G+ Anyway, new look. New trends. Job Trends 2012

SheepAOP::SheepAspect

2011-06-11T19:17:00.001-04:00

Another aspect orientated framework -SheepAOP now SheepAspect by Hendry Luk. I'm glad to see someone else in this space. I'm also happy to see that it is derived with an IoC container in mind. Seems straightforward enough - could have some real promise. I will keep this framework in mind for any future projects. http://sheepaspect.codeplex.com/ http://hendryluk.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/

Building Silverlight Toolkit (again)

2011-02-27T17:47:00.000-05:00

Paths I find most useful - especially when compiling SL Toolkit 4.0 from source (on an x64 machine). For whatever collection of reasons (IDE resolving assemblies, poor source-code structure - whatever) I usually end up wasting x hours of my life (usually on the weekend) trying to resolve these things. The Design solutions seem to be the worst offenders. The saddest comment I saw

KoL Wiki Search

2011-01-30T11:59:00.003-05:00

Because the KoL Text search hurts my feelings. only search the KoL Wiki *Update: Wiki editors - please steal this code!

Language Trends (Predictions for future?)

2011-01-03T10:12:00.000-05:00

Programming Language Trends (Dec. 2010) Programming Language Trends (Aug. 2010) Not a clue - but interesting to see java in forefront and an increase in objective-c (certainly not my favorite :P) Shakes fist at iPhone

Eclipse Update :: Android update :: OS Update

2010-11-27T17:35:00.001-05:00

When free-software costs you development time, it's not free - its costing you! Now that I have your attention here's my disclaimer: I have had equally horrid experiences with other expensive OS' and development tools. My dilemma has always been with trying to reconcile the differences and find what works best for me. So who is to blame when a working development environment just "stops"

iPhone and MonoDevelop

2010-10-01T10:34:00.000-04:00

Seems that initial reports (back in April) about Apple dropping support for anything but Objective-C was aimed primarily against Adobe - and not Novell. So MonoDevelop (w. MonoTouch) can still be the choice development-platform for i(Whatever) applications. Full article (complete with dispelling misconceptions, etc.) stumbled upon here.

Google University - laid back

2010-09-04T09:53:00.000-04:00

Who doesn't love Google? Ok, don't answer that! They've recently made course material available to to public. Which is kind of cool since I've established an interest in the Android platform of late - and have been experimenting with the DI containers available for the platform; specifically Gin and Guice. I just know Snoop Dogg would be proud!

Android

2010-07-31T13:46:00.004-04:00

I've been disappointed with Windows Phone development tools of late; and am hesitant/resonant to install over a working copy of Studio 2010. I think it's great that the preview express tools are available - and if I had a spare computer I would probably install them. Instead I decided to take a look at the Android platform - all things considered, isn't that bad. Up and running quickly on

Silverlight in an Occasionally Connected World

2010-07-05T20:02:00.000-04:00

And the answer is...anyone?...anyone at all? Microsoft Sync Framework! (I didn't believe it either.) Until then (roll-your-own) in isolated storage.

Unity + Silverlight 4.0 + VS2010 + Prism = Heartache

2010-05-01T08:45:00.001-04:00

Found an issue yesterday that caused me to lose half-a-day. It seems that The latest V4 drop of Prism (including the Unity container) has an issue resolving partial classes. The signature: Container.Resolve[shell](); Would not compile - at all! Note: for those of you paying attention, replace the brackets with the appropriate greater-than, less-than signs! It seemed as if the source code was

iPhone Development with MonoTouch

2010-04-10T18:58:00.000-04:00

Worth every penny - enough for corporate types to consider if they really want to start developing for the Apple platform. Wiki-site Gps is ridiculously easy When I think of the pain I've went through - even simpler. Will it work with Microsoft backends? Well, kinda. The jury is still out, and it's still experimental.WCF Services for iPhone The best part. They actually support Sqlite intrisically