Book Review: MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide
I have liked the works of Jacob Gube of Six Revisions and Garrick Cheung of the MooTools Community Team, so when Packt Publishing wanted me to review their book, I accepted. I hope authors, as well as readers, will gain some insights. Here is my review
Mar 11 2010 04:55 PM

Content theft Most of the recent - what I'll call - "discussions" about content aggregators have revolved around content theft. I'm not going to flip-flop on that topic: when you use someone else's work, you ask first, and if given the okay, you
Lucene is a document indexing engine, that is its sole goal, and it does so beautifully. The interesting bit about using Lucene is that it probably wouldn’t be your main data store, but it is likely to be an important piece of your architecture. The
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This afternoon we made available the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release candidates. You can find download links here. Right now
For the past few weeks members of my team and I have been meeting with key individuals in Bing, Microsoft Online services, and Windows. In those meetings we have focused on rich telemetry. We’ve talked about technologies to collect data,
I am currently doing the production-ready pass through the Rhino DivanDB code base, and I thought that this change was interesting enough to post about: public void Execute() { while(context.DoWork) { bool foundWork = false;
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of £484.99. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio or any other
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Gitorious hashes the repository paths which can be an issue if you need to access them from somewhere else (e.g. Redmine). I wrote a script that creates sane links to the repositories with an easily followable structure. Probably the best way to use this
This is experimental article, where you will see whole redesigning process behind the scenes and read different way of thinking. In this review you will be leaded through necessary steps needed to get successful redesign.
If responses and feedback will
Yawcam is a shortening for Yet Another WebCAM software, and that’s exactly what it is.
More precise Yawcam is a webcam software for windows written in java. The main ideas for Yawcam are to keep it simple and easy to use but to include all the
As I sit here on the train I release that my late night coding meant that I missed shocking the forcast. The following code corrects last nights mistake: let valueDate = new DateTime(2010,1,1) let trade = createIRSTwoLegTrade 101 let npv = [...]
The auto-wiring in the bean configuration file will wire all properties of a bean. In most cases, you may need wire a particular property only. In Spring 2.5, it’s greatly enhance on the auto-wiring feature, it’s possible to use @Autowired
Science fiction has been widely popular for years. Nowadays, technology enables graphic designers and digital artists to illustrate the fantasy of their imagination through digital arts. There are so many futuristic Sci-Fi concepts that have been created
Product Description Silverlight is Microsoft's breakthrough technology for creating rich experiences on the web. This book illustrates the power of Silverlight as a graphics, animation, and game-creation tool. It teaches the fundamentals of computer
If you are developping a VS addin or even if you are just a VS Addin user you certainly see this popup message in the past: I can attest that this message box popups because of environment issue including: Missing file(s) Mismatch 32bits / 64bits mode
So I just realized that Ctrl+Shift+B has been around for just over a year. Happy Birthday to us!
There was a question recently in the NHibernate mailing list from a guy wanting to learn how to write database agnostic code from the NHibernate source code. While I suppose that this is possible, I can’t really think of a worst way to learn how to write
Product Description Business Intelligence (BI) software aims to bring together different pieces of a business into views that can make comprehending mountains of data easier. BI is everywhere. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and
Now that Q1 2010 release is out in the wild, we can sit down and discuss some of the changes we decided to make in the new release. One of them is the new appointment rendering of RadScheduler - a potentially breaking change, but a much needed one. If
Introduction If you work with Silverlight or WPF, you have probably met the phrase “MVVM”. Almost everyone who is anyone in the WPF / Silverlight scene has their own MVVM framework, and their own way of explaining and teaching MVVM. Scary terms like IoC,
I recently got a question on one of my client template posts asking me how to bind a select tag’s value to data in client templates. I was surprised not to find anything on the web addressing the problem, so I thought I’d write a short post about it. It
When you’re reading around the web about what to focus on when creating a web page, and you’re sure to find a host of opinions which, in total, insist that every single page element holds the secret to attracting traffic, pleasing visitors,
We’ve covered a bit of ground already in this series on the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) from the basic information, creating observers and observables, jQuery integration and in the last post talking about composing asynchronous methods
Jobi Joy has converted the WPF UniformGrid to Silverlight. My recent Silverlight project had a need to distribute the items in rows and columns. I had to dynamically calculate the number of columns and rows it needed based on some logic. So it was clear
To use jQuery you do not need to be a hardcore coder or developer. JavaScript library to make you can easily insert a jQuery plugin and smoothed the next web project.
What if you want something simpler, a little drop-shadow here, a simple text animation
In this post, Jesse Liberty concentrates his attention on the strengths of WCF RIA Services. In my previous post I discussed creating the database and tables for the Silverlight HVP configuration data. All that was great, and worked just dandy until it
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