Archive for August 2007
links for 2007-08-31
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There were some big announcements at Mix07 this year. Many were expected, a few were not. I’ve been following WPF/E with interest for the better part of a year.
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Inplay
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
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a Visual Studio project template for ProMesh.NET based web applications.
links for 2007-08-30
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A wiki-based directory of open source and commercial software, including reviews, ratings, articles and detailed product feature comparisons
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Lambda lifting or closure conversion is the process of eliminating free variables from local function definitions from a computer program.
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Lots of good tech/dev, mostly .net-related, audio downloads…
links for 2007-08-29
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Good weather site. No ads.
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The next period of solar maximum is due around 2011…The changing Sun produces sunspots and solar storms over an 11-year cycle of activity, which is driven by the reversal of its magnetic poles over this time period. Solar storms (coronal mass ejections
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Welcome to SQLIS.com, SQL Server Integration Services on the web.
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3t has grown to become the largest private employer of IT consultants in the Rocky Mountain region. Our clients include Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, E*TRADE, Great West Life Insurance, The Children’s Hospital, Commercial Federal Bank, National Jewish Medi
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One of the changes in Whidbey will be a revamped tracing system. Much is unchanged – tracing messages are sent through switches to listeners where the data is reported in some fashion. One of the main differences is the inclusion of the TraceSource type.
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System.Collections.Generic.List contains some special methods
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Excellent, brief article on log4net, including a great set of links at the end…
Without wanting this to sound like hype, log4net really does provide a one-stop shop for all your logging, tracing and diagnostics in a simple to use package.
links for 2007-08-28
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Several open source toolkits are available for building robotic control systems. This article looks at mobile robot simulators, a physics modeling system, and finally, a simulator that supports embedding a simulated control system in a physical robot.
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His Cafe au Lait Web site has become one of the most popular independent Java sites on the Internet, and his spin-off site, Cafe con Leche, has become one of the most popular XML sites.
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Although fairly easy to learn, SSB is still relatively big, and a complex topic–you really can do quite a few different things with it. So I’ve broken this workbench into a three-part series. In this, part one of the workbench, we’ll cover the basics: Th
links for 2007-08-27
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ASP.NET-2.0-life-cycle graphic
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Here is an implementation of a neuroevolution algorithm. Neuroevolution is using genetic algorithms to evolve neural networks.
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The Ext team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Ext v1.1 for download. The 1.1 version includes the new stand-alone version of Ext, a lightweight HTML editor, a new Ext.Ajax utility class, enhancements to DateField and DatePicker, expanded
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The following things need to be setup to create a ProMesh.NET web application:
links for 2007-08-24
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A step by step in depth explanation of the LINQ Pipeline that transforms a LINQ query into SQL and returns a result to the user.
A detailed explanation of updates and calls to SubmitChanges() including discussions of:
Transactions
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the IQueryable interface, but it’s got a dark checkered past that most of you might not know about. IQueryable is a great way to expose your API or domain model for querying or provide a specialized query processor that can be used directly by LINQ. I
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This post shows how to add a button control that comes with the Silverlight SDK. You can see the button in Figure 1. I will also add a few lines of code to show how to use LINQ inside Silverlight.
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QuickGraph 2.0 provides generic directed graph datastructures and algorithms for .Net 2.0. QuickGraph comes with algorithms such as depth first seach, breath first search, shortest path, network flow etc…
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jQuery is doing the job very good, you simply have to write following code if you want to run an asynchronous call to a HelloWorld method in YourNamespace.Test class which will return a copy of the inpust string s.
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The framework will create proxy classes that are used on client-side JavaScript to invoke methods on the web server with full data type support working on all common web browsers including mobile devices. Return your own classes, structures, DataSets, enu
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It is nice to see the open source projects’ progress in Microsoft world, especially it is been extremely fast growth after the Codeplex launched, and also GotDotNet suggests their hosted projects to move on to Codeplex.
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If anyone is interested about editing Ocaml source code with SciTE (and running by F5),
copy this ocaml.properties file below at the right place (among other .properties of your SciTE)
(This file is inspired by lisp.properties and pascal.properties). I -
This is the Erlang web ring. The navigation bar on the left lists all sites in the web ring.
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The dictionary files are lists of pairs of English and other-language words, in the form:
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a way to convert all that stuff that you can get in a single gigantic download if you want to XAML.
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Although there are some who feel passionately about waiting until v1.1, Shadowman looks forward to starting Silverlight development today (he is hopeful for a full production release soon)….what the absolute minimum requirements are?…
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Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.
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This release of F# includes a command line compiler as well as ‘F# for Visual Studio’, which provides interactive syntax highlighting, parsing, typechecking and intellisense for F# code inside Visual Studio 2003/2005/Orcas, and ‘F# Interactive’, a command
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Our goal with this release is to enable technology “tinkerers” everywhere easily create and prototype SMS solutions that can be deployed anywhere in the world using local numbers using and widely available, off the shelf components.
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Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable.
…great list of tools.
links for 2007-08-23
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There a few examples out there on how to call Win32 methods from user.dll in C# for example but I didn’t find any articles that dealt explicitly with creating a DLL in straight ‘C’ then importing the methods in the ‘C’ dll from C#.
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“Excellence in statistical graphics consists of complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision, and efficiency…”
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…will first show a few support functions to make the life a bit easier and then we will use them for building two sample applications that allows user to build a query dynamically.
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In an article about building LINQ queries at runtime in C# 3.0 [1], I described how you can build a LINQ query dynamically…In this article I will first shortly introduce FLINQ sample, which is an F# library implementing LINQ support…
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This article describes very simple code that I wrote while learning how to work with the F# quotations library.
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Excellent list of general papers on AI…
…If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here’s the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on -
The leading textbook in Artificial Intelligence. Used in over 1000 universities in 91 countries (over 90% market share). The 85th most cited publication on Citeseer.
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Termite results for small scheme and erlang procedures.
links for 2007-08-22
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The Database module provides browser-local relational data storage to your JavaScript web application. Google Gears uses the open source SQLite database system.
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Tim Anderson’s Why Google Gears? Thoughts from Google Developer Day provides an independent overview of Google Gears and notes the importance of synchronization. Tim also mentions full-text search in his SQLite will be everywhere post.
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specializing in developing and writing about Microsoft SQL Server 2005, SQL Server CE, .NET database, LINQ, ADO.NET Entity Framework and Web services projects.
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Describes anonymous methods, lambda expressions. closures and currying in plain English.
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…how to create a generic scheduler that runs on a Windows Service. The scheduler will be able to accept pluggable actions that we can develop, later implementing a custom interface.
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This is the Erlang web ring. The navigation bar on the left lists all sites in the web ring.
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Tamale is our in-house multimedia engine, which we will soon be releasing as open source (most likely under the GPL). It currently runs on Windows, but it should be portable to other platforms.
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If you have an interest in the Yucatan, be sure to visit Yucatan Living the definitive Weblog about life, love, work, culture and living in Yucatan.
links for 2007-08-21
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For one of my projects at work, I needed the ability to download a file from a given URL. Unfortunately, the methods provided by the WebClient class don’t do anything more than download the data. I needed something that gave the ability to provide progres
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Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will expand its global Xbox 360™ warranty coverage. Any Xbox 360 customer who experiences a general hardware failure indicated by three flashing red lights will now be covered by a three year warranty from date of
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While anonymous methods were a great language addition in C# 2.0, the syntax could be confusing at times in terms of getting the delegate signature correct and the curly braces all lined up in the right place. In C# 3.0 this exact snippet of code can be
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Meet Free Lossless Audio Codec, or FLAC for the friends. A codec which allows you to store your music digitally without any loss of quality from the original source, but not as big as storing huge wave files. Unlike as with MP3 where data is discarded, re
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…collected number of resources on Silverlight which are listed below. I hope it will save your time and money. List will be updated continuesly when i find new resources.
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LINQ related blog.
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The Repository Factory is a guidance package that automates creation of entity classes that map to database tables and repository classes to read and write those entity classes. The generated code removes the tedium of writing a persistence-ignorant domai
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Anyway, here is when to use the ADO Entity Framework according to Microsoft:
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Good blog.
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The name Peigneur is Cajun French for “comber”, relating to someone who works with wool in the process of weaving fabric, a highly regarded skill among early Cajuns. It was a 10 foot (3 m) deep freshwater lake popular with sportsmen until an unusual man-m
links for 2007-08-20
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Welcome to trapexit.org, the Erlang community site where you can read news and weblogs related to Erlang/OTP, discuss projects, issues and ideas with other Erlang developers, and read and publish articles and HowTos related to Erlang/OTP.
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The clear primary consequence we’ve already covered is that applications will increasingly need to be concurrent if they want to fully exploit CPU throughput gains that have now started becoming available and will continue to materialize over the next s
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Chapter 2 of The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs provides an excellent description of how to leverage abstractions to make code more expressive. One technique it describes is processing data like a signal-processing engineer would preces
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A timeless classic in how complex information should be presented graphically. The Strunk & White of visual design. Should occupy a place of honor–within arm’s reach–of everyone attempting to understand or depict numerical data graphically. The design o
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It started with an article about how the free lunch is over for software engineers that a friend sent to me about two years ago. It basically stated that developers have been riding on the wave of Moore’s law to save their butts, and it’s not going to las
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This brief tutorial aims to cover the main concepts and syntax of Erlang in a way which programmers of C type languages can relate to. It is not a complete description of the language by any means but it does try to give a feel for the main conceptual dif
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This project is inspired by the behavior of termites gathering wood chips into piles. The termites follow a set of simple rules. Each termite starts wandering randomly. If it bumps into a wood chip, it picks the chip up, and continues to wander randomly.
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As Dave Herman just posted at Lambda-the-Ultimate, we ECMA members who have been working on the successor to the JavaScript standard have a new www.ecmascript-lang.org website, which now hosts the “milestone 0″ release of the ES4 Reference Implementation,
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ECMAScript Programming Language home
