To fight my fire I need a MOP
AlvinAshcraft 
via weblogs.asp.net
I feel like I have reached a peak, I understand and use Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction, Encapsulation and Parametric Inheritance (Generics)... more »
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Mac Widgets for Java
bloid via explodingpixels.wordpress.com
I’ve just released Mac Widgets for Java version 0.9.0. The Source List component (pictured below) is the only component fully ready to use. You can... more »
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Managed Extensibility Framework: Why?
AlvinAshcraft via mikehadlow.blogspot.com
Sometimes... no often... I'm quite dumb. I've been skimming through posts about the MEF thinking that people were talking about the Entity Framework... more »
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Silverlight Slider and Absolute values
AlvinAshcraft via timheuer.com
If you use the Slider object in Silverlight (or WPF for that matter) you may have experienced some similar frustration that I have recently. Let’s... more »
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SQL 2008, Filestream, Docs from VB
Someone asked me if I had a simple sample of how to read/write documents into a database table using FILESTREAM in SQL Server 2008. I set about it.... more »
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Some Silverlight events coming up
AlvinAshcraft via timheuer.com
I’m pretty excited about the upcoming Fall travels I have. Fresh on the heels of a 3-day session with the entire Silverlight team this past week, I’m... more »
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Comet: Behold, the Forever GIF
bloid via cometdaily.com
I imagine readers of Comet Daily are pretty familiar with the typical Comet transports: Long-polling, htmlfile streaming, XHR streaming, etc. I... more »
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How can I make sure Terracotta is wired into my application?
bloid via javathink.blogspot.com
One of the funny things about Terracotta is that applications typically don't know it's there. This is normally a really good thing - it means you... more »
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Using Groovy Builders in Sling
bloid via n1ceone.blogspot.com
Sling is a new approach in web development. It is, amongst other, a thin REST layer onto a JCR repository. Sling also makes use of the language... more »
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TotalView Debugger Offers Instant Replay
After years of development, TotalView Technologies has launched ReplayEngine, a debugger add-on that allows developers to record and replay their... more »
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Real World Haskell vs Python for Text Processing
bloid via sandersn.com
This is fortuitous because I recently decided to try Haskell once again for real development. I wrote my cute little tree kernel in Haskell and the... more »
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Page Thumbnails for UI Design
bloid via blogs.sun.com
Early in a UI design project, it's efficient to be able to quickly arrange and rearrange the high level navigation and flow of the application or site... more »
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JavaScript file encoding
bloid via joconner.com
Although JavaScript itself uses Unicode internally, you can still run into charset conversion problems. Consider the following example of charset... more »
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10 Minute Mock Prototyping - Tips for PowerPoint
bloid via krisjordan.com
Mocking up user-experience designs needn’t be time a huge time-sink. This is especially true for sketchy, early-stage designs. First draft mockups are... more »
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YUI Pacman!
So here it is, my new project after a one year break. I know it’s not perfect and of course you can find some bugs, errors, not well optimized lines... more »
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Wow - Google Chrome at 7% less than a week after release
7% less than a week after release. That must be the most successful SW release in history of mankind :)
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Tips and Tricks - ASP.Net AJAX Applications
My previous articles on ASP.Net AJAX helped you to understand the basics and implementing AJAX applications in ASP.Net. This article is aimed to... more »
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The Monday Roast: Weekly Flash Link Roundup
pault107 via drastika.pcriot.com
A weekly selection of the hottest Adobe Flash related links from around the web.
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Empowering The Agile Team - Does This Apply To Me?
Many times we question the what if’s and how they apply to what I do. One of the very earliest projects I had the privilege of working on involved... more »
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Podcast: Writing LUA Scripts for MySQL Proxy - MySQL University
This session will introduce the basics of the Lua language, with particular emphasis on the features of immediate use with MySQL Proxy. The lecture... more »
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Google Chrome Already 12+% Market Share
jasonjones via realjavasoa.blogspot.com
On my site javacrawl.com, Chrome usage this week is over 12%, almost double last week. Google Chrome has been out one week now. This is admittedly a... more »
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10 Principles of Agile Project Time Management
Project Time Management is one of the nine knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). It deals with the definition of... more »
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The Difference between RSCC and .NET Reflector
.NET Reflector enables you to easily view, navigate, and search through the class hierarchies of .NET assemblies even if you don't have the code for... more »
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Common Tasks in Developing ASP.NET Application
I mentioned developing an ASP.NET website in the first blog. ASP.NET is a sophisticated architecture that often confuses developers, especially which... more »
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Developing WSF/PHP Webservices With Contract First Approach - 2 Minutes Introduction
Quick Guide to develop a web service with contract first approach using WSF/PHP library and toolkit
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