Finding missing and duplicate lines in text files using PowerShell
Every now and then I need to investigate bugs that get exposed because countable "things" are less or more than expected. In my special case I was... more »
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Pivot: A Practical Example, Part 4 - Data Binding
This is the fourth in a series of five articles that walk through the implementation of a simple but practical Pivot application called Stock Tracker.... more »
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"Professionalism = Knowledge First, Experience Last"
Do you trust a doctor with diagnosing your mental problems if the doctor tells you he's got 20 years of experience? Do you still trust that doctor... more »
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PHP Class for Date Time calculations - Part 2
This post will cover how to use the DateSpanClass to easily calculate the difference between 2 dates, in intervals from seconds to years. Sadly,... more »
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The Perfect Collision of Web 2.0 Marketing
Too often when digesting Social Media blogs, I read the same crap about how to take advantage of basic Social Media tools and methods to promote... more »
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Lightweight SQL Interfaces for Java Development
I previously blogged about the shortcomings of JDBC and its way of passing SQL statements as strings without any compile-time checking or type safety.... more »
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10 Different Charting Solutions
10 Different charting solutions for the web using JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight, and Java. Surprisingly no mention of Google Charts.
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Grails at LinkedIn (Brian Guan)
It’s been more than 6 months since the Grails community learned that LinkedIn , an online network of professional contacts, has been using Grails... more »
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100 Awesome Webmaster Videos on YouTube
While many people see YouTube as a fun and mindless distraction, the fact is that it's really quite useful. The video site is full of educational... more »
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Unit tests are for functionality, not code!
Shawn has an interesting post where he talks about why 100% unit test coverage should be one of your goals. I agree 100%. I’m not sure why anyone... more »
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Creating Visula Studio Keyborad Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
As we all know, there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio. We mentioned only 21 of them here at Dev102.com but according to this article,... more »
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Presentation Layer Best Practices
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With the adoption of W3C recommendations by most web browser manufacturers, client-side web development has finally reached "critical mass" in terms... more »
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Did Rails Sink Twitter?
Twitter is arguably the most heavily used Ruby on Rails application in the world. Almost since its inception, Twitter has fostered a wildly passionate... more »
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The Basics of Database Indexes
Continuing his series on interview questions, Jesse at 20bits presents a great overview of database indexes and how they work. A must read!
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Confessions of an Eccentric Web Developer
#8: I sometimes think that we’re wasting our time when we code javascript. Javascript can be turned off by the client in 10 seconds and all of our... more »
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Flex Architecture Fundamentals Part 4 : Architecture Frameworks
A good overview of three options for architecture in Flex apps: * No framework * Use Cairngorm * Use PureMVC
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Return of the Statically Typed Languages
My good buddy Steve Yegge posted quite an article yesterday. It's the transcript of a presentation he gave at Stanford a few days ago, and the overall... more »
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Sun is bleeding; More engineers leave as JavaFX is pimped
I talked about how I thought Sun was drowning back when Chet Haase left Sun and joined the Flex team at Adobe. It wasn’t that without Chet Sun was... more »
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Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 2
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Before we begin, a quick Groovy primer. We start with the fact that Groovy is Java and Java is Groovy. If you have written Java code, you have written... more »
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Comparing TWO continous build tools: Cruise Control and Hudson
A small comparision between TWO famous continous integration tools.
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Task Management Using vim
Task management is a sensitive issue. Even the ones who do not explicitly manage tasks are defensive about how they do it. I was one of them for quite... more »
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LZO real-time data compression library
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LZO is a data compression library which is suitable for data de-/compression in real-time. This means it favours speed over compression ratio. ... more »
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Continuous scrolling image thumbnail and slideshow component for Flex
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I've been working on improvements for this thumbnail/slideshow component. The way the continuous scroll flows is very nice. It provides a very fluid... more »
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Kamaelia: The future of Python Frameworks looks promising
Kamaelia is a general purpose Python framework developed by BBC Research. It is what I would consider a second generation framework. It has a mature... more »
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