MEF + Factories Using an Export Provider, written 5 days ago, Taking a different approach to resolving factory exports within MEF by using an ExportProvider (new in preview 3 drop) over using a part catalog. This approach ultimately leads to a cleaner and simpler solution. Read more …

Rants, source code and useless opinion from a poor Computer Science student.

My View of C# 4.0, written 1 month ago, I've known a bit about C# 4.0 for a while now and have had time to think about it. I've just re-read the New features in C# 4.0 paper published by Microsoft and would like to offer the following critique of the language's new features: Dynamic Lookup This fe...

Picky-Picky C/C++ Style Conventions: postscript, written 1 month ago, I goofed yesterday on one of the code examples as one reader, Michael, pointed out.  I was trying to show how to define a hardware register as a cosnt pointer to volatile data and I wrote: static const uint8_t* volatile dataOut =...

Graffiti Silverlight Photo Gallery Plugin Updates, written 3 weeks ago, Last spring I wrote a set of plugins for Graffiti CMS that add a Silverlight 1.0 photo gallery to Graffiti. They used the open source Slide.Show Silverlight photo gallery control written by Vertigo Software to render the actual ...

Only a few know where is the second foundation, however, the speakers always get all of the galaxy under control and, nearly no one knows my blog, but I keep writing, share everything I know about linux, programming, etc.

Do Canadians Know What Twitter is?, written 2 days ago, Here’s an interesting CTV poll that asks Canadians if they know what Twitter is. The results will give you a laugh.

Lasers, written 4 days ago, I’ve disappeared for the past few weeks because of the insane amount of work I’ve had.  However, in addition to all of the schoolwork, I have also been able to feed my newfound passion for lasers. It all started with the “5mW” greenie I bought.  Soon after, I pu...

Action Recorder, written 1 day ago, I was pretty disappointed when the Action Recorder first came out. I was hoping for a product more like the macro recorder in the Office products that writes the actions in VBA. I do find the action recorder useful in seeing if you can program the creation of Civi...

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Extending the initialization sequence of JavaScript behaviors, written 2 weeks ago, This topic was recently discussed in the OpenAjax group and here is the implemented solution for the AjaxEngine framework. The consensus was to solve the initialization problem on the application level and not within...

The IHttpHandler and IHttpHandlerFactory interfaces ?, written 1 week ago, The IHttpHandler interface is implemented by all the handlers. The interface consists of one property called IsReusable. The IsReusable property gets a value indicating whether another request can use the IHttpHandler instanc...

Mutterings on things generally.

5 Tips for Better jQuery Code, written 2 weeks ago, #1: Use data method instead of storing data inside the DOM. #2: Take advantage of jQuery’s built-in custom selectors. #3: If you are Manipulating the DOM a lot, use livequery. #4: Use jQuery form plugin to submit files via Ajax. #5: Use classes a...

Job Changes, Blog Changes, written 1 month ago, So I've up and switched jobs. After four years, over two of those as an Enterprise Architect, I've bid goodbye to Compassion and am re-entering the world of consulting. I loved my job at Compassion. There were many challenges, but there were many great...

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