The world has moved on, have you? Xml APIs you should avoid using. (Microsoft XML Team's WebLog) -- tl;dr = XmlText* classes should be retired in favour of objects minted by Xml*.Create() factories.
5 Awesome Free jQuery Plugins -- toast, sliders, tickers...
Microsoft Research's new F* language
Node.js 0.5.2 unstable branch now includes Windows
Scala.net reloaded -- still need to try it out with code that broke the old version.
2010 having spanned the run from first integration point through to RTM and GA for XenDesktop 5, I was being increasingly preoccupied as the year went on; and blogging of any form was one of the main casualties. Which means I have a not-so-little list of backlog of things I want to keep track of from the last couple of months:
While weatherpixie remains on extended hiatus, I have finally put together a simple in-browser replacement. It uses James Padolsey's cross-domain Ajax plug-in for jQuery (indirecting via YQL), a simple parsing script from Manuel Heras, here separated into a stand-alone script, and an iframe-based page to do the work.
The final piece of heavy lifting is to get the appropriate METAR report for the local airfield, and that's just a few lines of javascript --
Here, EGSC is the ICAO code for Cambridge Airport. And that's a lot closer to home than the Met. Office who give out current conditions at Bedford on the Cambridge forecast!
Hacking PoSh 2.0 to run under .net 4 -- a highly unofficial fix-up.
Setting up MSFT's WebMatrix beta.
Learning resources for jQuery.
Mozilla's Rust programming language.
The Active Object pattern for concurrency.
ThinVNC -- HTML5+JSON browser based desktop remoting.
JSINQ -- LINQ-like Javascript
Apple programming language lockdown for iPhone/iPad.
Readability -- bookmarklet to declutter web pages.
Martin Fowler on Version Control Tools.
JavaScript Reactive Framework and Observables.
Functional C# : Extracting higher order functions with generics.
Related : F# Changing one's C# coding style
Marking the .net 4 RC1 release on SmallestDotNet.
PoSH 2.0 -- the localized help files.
JQuery 1.4.x highlights
IronJS -- Ecmascript on the DLR
Web : Free small icons, SVG support overview, script free video embeds, and Windows 3.1 in DHTML!
After a long period of snow, slush, ice, cold, gloom and general all-around lack of enthusiasm...
.Net4 beta2 available via Windows Update -- how to opt in.
CSI -- a C# interpreter for scripting
F# -- refactoring to active patterns.
C++ -- C++0x features in VisualC++ 2010.
PoSh -- graphical download manager using BITS.
LINQ -- Going functional with System.Interactive (Reactive Framework)
JavaScript -- Gordon : a pure JS/HTML5 Flash runtime.
Simon Willison is excited by Node.js
PPK remarks that Apple is not evil -- and may be surprisingly cunning.
Luke Hoban’s F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming (PDC video)
Bart Czernicki’s Silverlight 3 and F# Support in Visual Studio 2010
Pense-moi's Immutable queue library for F#
Vista presentation mode tips and enabling applications.
Attaching a debugger on process start.
Validating JavaScript syntax with a .net wrapper.
Underscore -- a functional programming utility library for JavaScript
http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/tech/2009/09/gotchas-adding-attributes-to-interface-properties-in-f/
http://stevehorsfield.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/f-generic-fold/
http://www.improve.dk/blog/2009/09/12/the-cost-of-latent-logging-code
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/09/23/microsoft-silverlight-comes-to-linux-first-stop-moblin/
http://weblogs.asp.net/podwysocki/archive/2009/09/25/pondering-axum-f.aspx
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/LAgent
http://www.javascriptbeautifier.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/09/20/what-s-up-with-command-prefixes.aspx
Updating the Erlang brush
This also required the following in the CSS theme
And for F#
which is as incomplete as it always was; but doesn't use any extra CSS.
Later -- another brush for F# that was published at about the same time can be found at Pense-Moi.
This will be coming soon. For the moment a little note to myself, expanding from my first how-to for version 1.5:
becomes
To get the legacy mode to work, I had to put the initialization into the onload function.
I'm not rolling this out until I can get the rewritten F# and Erlang brushes to work and not throw _a2.regex is undefined messages.
Later: There are a lot of initial-letter capitalization changes (in both directions) required in this port : the "_a2.regex is undefined" messages came from more of them than at first met the eye. I still can't find the equivalent mechanism to injecting CSS styles, though.
Later yet: There doesn't seem to be a programmatic injection of CSS values any more, so I hacked the values from the 1.5 brushed into the default CSS file.
Even later: To allow legacy and non-legacy highlight styles, the legacy part of the operation must be in the onload, the 2.0 initialization must not.
Yet more: A possible bug in the CSS as supplied -- I needed to add the following
to shCore.css to get the copy-to-clipboard icon to show in the toolbar.
Updating last December's post, about a SyntaxHighlighter brush for Erlang, to allow for compounds like 'wxErlang' with interior capitals and not mark them as values:
This manipulates the output of the RegExp to discard the first (non-identifier) character, to work around the lack of lookbehind (in one of the many possible ways the same effect could be achieved).
Security transparency in .net (review article).
The circuit breaker pattern for remote services.
WCF - coding to the interface, with a reusable proxy.
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