Brian Swan05/25/11
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Consuming OData via JSP in Windows Azure

A colleague recently asked me if I knew anything about consuming OData from a Java deployment in Windows Azure. My answer at the time was “no”, but with a quick pointer to http://code.google.com/p/odata4j/ I know the answer would soon change to “yes”.

Ross Jernigan05/24/11
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Citrix Acquires Kaviza's VDI-in-a-Box Technology

A little over a year ago, the networking and desktop virtualization Citrix Systems invested in Kaviza, a company that specializes in virtual desktop infrastructure-in-a-box technology. Today, Citrix acquired Kaviza in hopes of expanding their small and medium...

Keyvan Nayyeri05/22/11
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Now Running on .NET Framework 4.0 and ASP.NET MVC 3

As I said in my recent post about moving my blog to Windows Azure, I’ve been working on upgrading Behistun, my very own blog engine, to the latest technologies including .NET Framework 4.0 and ASP.NET MVC 3. Fortunately, it didn’t take so long to...

Gunnar Peipman05/21/11
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ASP.NET MVC: Showing dates using DayCalendarPage extension method

In my events web site I need to show event dates in lists so users can easily see them. I decided to use day calendar view like shown on image on left. As there are more than one view where I need this functionality I wrote HTML extension method that...

Julian Bucknall05/21/11
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JavaScript: Unit testing asynchronous functions

In a previous blog post, I talked about the QUnit unit testing library for JavaScript. In that post, I showed how to use it with a date library I was messing around with. If I were you I would review that previous blog post; it will help in what’s to...

Gunnar Peipman05/18/11
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dotPeek–JetBrains replaces .NET Reflector

Today I got e-mail from JetBrains stating that there is dotPeek early build available for download. dotPeek is .NET assemblies decompiler that is offered for free and that should replace .NET Reflector (not free anymore). dotPeek will also be part of...

Jim Moscater05/18/11
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Microsoft Bringing "Ops" into Visual Studio (vNext)

In this week's keynote speech at Tech*Ed North America 2011, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jason Zander announced the new features for "vNext", the codename they've chosen for the next version of the Visual Studio IDE. The major change to VS...

Lyndsey Clevesy05/18/11
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Things I Learned During the 64-bit Port – Volume 1

I tend to save writing for instances where I find something humorous that I can cross-reference. I actually do not have a lot of humor to offer this time, but having worked through our 64-bit port in the last few months I do have a few interesting...

Mitch Pronschinske05/18/11
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Go 2.2: Free Community Edition No Longer Requires a License

When it comes to practicing what you preach as a software company, ThoughtWorks Studios is a prime example of an organization that eats its own dogfood. Before the reboot of their release management software, called "Go" (Formerly...

Israel Gat05/18/11
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Schedule Constraints in the Devops Triangle

Last week’s post “The Devops Triangle” demonstrated the extension of Jim Highsmith‘s Agile Triangle to devops. The extension relied on adding compliance to the three traditional constraints of software development: scope, schedule, cost. A...

Keyvan Nayyeri05/18/11
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Using Google Prediction API in .NET

Those readers who are not normal data-in/data-out software developers would have some information about different aspects of computers and techniques involved in problem solving in this area. One of the very powerful methods of solving problems and...

Jim Moscater05/17/11
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Poll: Open Source License Usage

69% of open source projects are licensed under the GPL, while only 10% of open source apps used by enterprise applications are under the GPL. That’s according to OpenLogic, a support and solutions provider for...

Keyvan Nayyeri05/17/11
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Now Running on Windows Azure

I’ve taken a few days off from the academic research work to relax and play around with some personal interests and one of these interests was .NET development. I’ve been working on a few tasks and projects that you will hear about shortly but one of...

Michael Ceranski05/13/11
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Dapper.Net - A Micro ORM that puts you back in control

Its fun to reminisce about how database access has evolved over the years. In the early days I used to write parameterized SQL statements directly in my code. Eventually that evolved into using stored procedures. Mainly because by using a stored procedure...

Julian Bucknall05/13/11
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Implementing MarkDown for comments

I haven’t been too happy about the facilities for commenting in GraffitiCMS ever since I started using it. Great for minor feedback, but awful for pasting code when crafting an implementation detail as an example. Since StackOverflow uses MarkDown for...