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C# vs. VB

Does coding in these languages make you understand the .NET framework better or worse? I would argue that it just confuses and muddy’s up any significant cognitive comprehension of the vast framework we now know as .NET. It really confuses … Continue reading

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Paradigm Shift taking hold

The functional hype is starting to make sense. I have been reading up on Functional programming, and am beginning to see the light. I am also learning up on TDD with Mocks. Trying to figure out how I can converge … Continue reading

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namespace manager required

using System; using System.IO; using System.Xml; using System.Xml.XPath; namespace consAppXpath1 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { //load xml Byte[] content = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Properties.Resources.TestConfigInNamespace); MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(content); XPathDocument doc = new XPathDocument(memoryStream); //setup xpath processing XPathNavigator nav … Continue reading

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I like AOP

by Mathew D. Groves… “Whatever tool you decide to use, AOP will help you do your job more effectively. You’ll spend less time copying and pasting the same boilerplate code or fixing the same bug in that boilerplate 100 times. … Continue reading

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Learning Node.js

Learning Node.js from the Beginner’s tutorial… var http = require(“http”); var url = require(“url”); function start() { function onRequest(request, response) { var pathname = url.parse(request.url).pathname; console.log(“Request for ” + pathname + ” received.”); response.writeHead(200, {“Content-Type”: “text/plain”}); response.write(“Hello World-9”); response.end(); } … Continue reading

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Crockford-The Good Parts

There are four patterns of invocation in JS: the method invocation pattern, the function invocation pattern, the constructor invocation pattern and the apply invocation pattern. The patterns differ in how the bonus parameter [[this]] is initialized

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Anonymous functions in JavaScript

If you need recursion, then name a function, but if you don’t, un-naming a function is fine … in other words, anonymous functions will do just fine when you don’t need recursion var add = function(a,b) { return a+b; };

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TDD lives on in Python

check this out… http://www.tdd-django-tutorial.com/

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QUnit

Just got through Jorn’s article on using QUnit to unit test JavaScript…http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/27/introduction-to-javascript-unit-testing/ , next, is Jasmine, here is the link to get the code , https://github.com/pivotal/jasmine

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Visual explanation of how SQL Joins work

This is a cool repost describing visually the different flavors of SQL joins… Visual explanation of how SQL Joins work.

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