Computer Algorithms: Minimum and Maximum
To find the minimum value into an array of items itsn’t difficult. There are not many options to do that. The most natural approach is to... more »
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Metro: Creating a Master/Detail View with a WinJS ListView Control
The goal of this blog entry is to explain how you can create a simple master/detail view by using the WinJS ListView and Template... more »
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Keep Localizable Strings Close To Your Users
Much has been written about the technical ins and outs of localizing .NET applications with ResX files, but I think that most treatments... more »
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Windows 8 C# – Capture Media
I left JavaScript and started to work on Windows 8 Metro using C# and XAML, in this post I’ll demonstrate how to use WinRT for Camera,... more »
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Under the covers of the async modifier and await operator in .NET 4.5 and C# Metro style applications
IL DASM (The Intermediate Language Disassembly tool) is something I haven't used in a while. When .NET 1.0 first came out in beta over a... more »
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Variable Scoping for Try-Catch Blocks in Whiley
A friend of mine was talking about how variable scoping for try-catch blocks in Java really frustrated him sometimes. Specifically, the... more »
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Why Method Overloading Sucks in Scala
Here’s the tl;dr: never use method overloading because it sucks. Method overloading sucks in Scala because it actually detracts from... more »
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Pragmatic Metaprogramming: Patching geokit-rails3
I recently ran into a problem using geokit-rails3 with an ActiveRecord model backed by the SQL Server Adapter. Geokit provides query... more »
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Functional programming in Bash
I find myself trying to do things I can do in GHCi more each passing day in my innocent /bin/sh. I find myself seeking a good balance... more »
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Extracting Tar archives with C#
I needed to extract some tar files and came across the tar_cs library for .net, which was great except it didn't work with the tar files... more »
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Manage hierarchical data with MySQL stored procedures
Stored procedures to manage hierarchical trees in a MySQL database using the Modified Preorder Tree Traversal method. All code is... more »
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SpahQL - A query language for Javascript objects
Javascript doesn’t make dealing with structured data easy at all. Even when you’re working with data you control, you’re having to put... more »
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Objects, Anomalies, and Actors: The Next Revolution
Steve Vinoski believes that actor-oriented languages such as Erlang are better prepared for the challenges of the future: cloud,... more »
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