One of the responsibilities of every practicing developer is to pass along high quality references, tutorials, etc. to fellow practitioners. If you are interested in installing Apache, PHP, MySQL on Snow Leopard, here’s just such a reference. I think the list of Thank You’s is 10 times longer than the article. That’s how good [...]
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Visual Studio Add-ons
June 8, 2011
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Another great “in depth” article was published in Visual Studio Magazine; this one by Peter Vogel entitled: 17 Free Tools for Visual Studio. The tools selected: LINQPad, LInQ Visualizer, SMTP4Dev, P/Invoke Interop Assistant , Regulator, Regex Editor Add-In, Fiddler, ProjectConverter, DevExpress CodeRush Xpress, VS10x Code Map v2, DPack, JScript Editor Extensions, XAML Styler, Code Metrics Viewer, [...]
Read more iPhone Dev – Make the Call
June 1, 2011
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So you own matching black and white iPhones, mastered the subtleties of Objective-C, coded each and every nuance of the 1500+ new APIs in iOS SDK 4, and can build and debug with your eyes closed using the latest version of Xcode. OK, hotshot, here’s a quick quiz question that I get asked at least [...]
Read more Vaadin
May 22, 2011
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I first started developing with Vaadin about a year ago for a business intelligence project written against the Java stack. Vaadin is a server-side Ajax web application development framework that allows you to build web applications just as you would with traditional desktop frameworks, such as AWT or Swing. Developing with the framework follows the [...]
Read more dotPeek 1.0 EAP Now Available
May 18, 2011
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I just received my developer notification for JetBrains new .NET decompiler tool. The company makes a number of great .NET development tools: ReSharper, dotTrace, and dotCover. This new tool, dotPeek, is now available free-of-charge as an Early Access Preview. Here’s their spin: What’s Cool about dotPeek? Decompiling .NET 1.0-4.0 assemblies to C# Quick jump to [...]
Read more EF 4.1 – The Big Question
May 14, 2011
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Visual Studio Magazine recently asked Gil Fink his thoughts about EF 4.1 and Code First in this article: “Five Questions on Code First in Entity Framework”. Fellow .NET developers will be happy to see that the big question on all of our minds was included in the five asked: VSM: Entity Framework has come a [...]
Read more Google Storage Dev Update
May 7, 2011
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A few days ago I received an email notice regarding my Google Storage Developer account. It is posted online here. Here’s the update: We’re making some changes to Google Storage for Developers to make team-based development easier. As part of this work, we are introducing a concept of a project. In preparation for this feature, [...]
Read more Visual Studio Async CTP
April 30, 2011
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I just got the Visual Studio Async Community Technology Preview (SP1 Refresh) up and running and it is amazing. You can get it here. First, start with the Whitepaper: Asynchrony in .NET to get an overview of the new asynchronous features being developed for C#, Visual Basic and the .NET Framework. Then, download the C# [...]
Read more Fun with Perl: topbiz.pl
April 20, 2011
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#!C:/Perl/bin/perl # Dom Virgilio # Grab top business stories from Yahoo RSS feed # Notes: perl topbiz.pl # turn on perl’s safety features use strict; use warnings; my $pathname = “http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/business”; use XML::RSS; use LWP::Simple; my $rss = new XML::RSS; my $url2parse = get($pathname) or die “Unable to access Yahoo RSS feed.”; $rss->parse($url2parse); # Print [...]
Read more “100% Code Coverage”
April 19, 2011
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There’s a nice exchange of ideas going on in the DZone ‘Javalobby’ based on a Nicolas Frankel blog entry called “100% code coverage!” that was posted recently on “A Java geek!“. The original post is here. Frankel’s assertion “code coverage and test are completely different things” is right on the money… as is his very [...]
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MySQL TCO
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Evernote API
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iPhone Dev – Make the Call
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Security in the Cloud
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Amazon RDS for Oracle DB
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Quartz 2.0.1 Released
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Qt SDK 1.1 Released
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EF 4.1 – The Big Question
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Microsoft Tech-Ed 2011 Keynote
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dotPeek 1.0 EAP Now Available
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Vaadin
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Amazon RDS for Oracle DB
