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CSharp Language Specification, Version 3.0 Available for Review |
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By host on
7/31/2007
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The CSharp Unified Language Specification is now available for review. This specification pulls together information from the CSharp 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 specifications into a single unified document.
The CSharp community will have approximately one week, until about August 5th 8th, to review this specification. Please submit your review of the specification as a comment to this blog.
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Google is cool |
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By host on
7/31/2007
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Google is always experimenting with new things. Check out some of their cool ideas:
http://www.google.com/transit
http://www.google.com/experimental/
I am just waiting to see what they do with http://www.grandcentral.com/!
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Unit Testing on Mobile Devices |
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By host on
7/31/2007
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Unit testing with the compact framework is a real chore. There are two open source projects that attempt to address this:
http://cfnunitbridge.tigris.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ncfunit
Unit Testing in Visual Studio is controversial (http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2007/07/23/11123.aspx). I think it is nice to have it built into the development environment and not have to set up a custom debug to an external application like NUnit. I have a lot of investiment in NUnit so I am glad there is a converter to the MSTest format (http://blogs.msdn.com/jamesnewkirk/archive/2007/06/30/nunit-converter-v1-1-moved-from-gotdotnet.aspx). The great news is that Visual Studio Orcas or 2008 has Unit Testing for Compact Framework built in. (http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan/archive/2007/07/31/visual-studio-2008-beta-2-now-available.aspx)
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I love my fish tank. |
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By host on
7/30/2007
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It is probably a 20 year old AllGlass! A good WI company by the way. I posted once before (http://nantz.org/Blog/tabid/57/EntryID/554/Default.aspx) about a unique fish tank that lets you pet your fish (http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/03/26/pet-your-fish/). Now I see one in a deep fryer? (http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/03/29/japanese-deep-fryer-has-aquarium-within/) and one made of ice (http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/03/ice-fish-tank/). AllIce? Then there is the MacG4 fish tank (http://www.boingboing.net/2003/11/19/g4_cube_fishtank.html). But my favorite is the hamster-tunnell-like aquarium (http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/fish_swim_aroun.html and http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/build_a_better_.html). I also saw something like this in a restaurant once.
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Ruby on Rails vs Java |
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By host on
7/30/2007
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I love this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo&mode=related&search=) on UTube about Ruby on Rails vs Java. One of the frustrating thing on Java for me as a .Net developer is that you need so many thing to make anything work!
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Microsoft to go Open Source ?!?!?! |
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By host on
7/27/2007
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Licenses that Microsfot uses (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/sharedsourcelicenses.mspx). I have talked about WIX, WTL and SSCLI. But hot off the press from OSCON (I have to go next year!) is this (http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/microsoft_to_su_1.html)! If it were not Tim OReilly I would not believe it!!! This is great news but is a bit confusing. I was listening to a great IT Conversations Podcast just the other day that posed the question “What is Open Source?” There are many definitions and licenses. Is SugarCRM Open Source? Pentaho? MySQL? PostgreSQL? Interesting.
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GLEE: Graph Layout Execution Engine for .Net |
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By host on
7/24/2007
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Another very interesting piece of code that is coming from Microsoft Research is GLEE: Graph Layout Execution Engine for .Net
(http://research.microsoft.com/users/levnach/GLEEWebPage.htm). This is very interesting layout engine for mind map or hierarchical data type of applications.
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Interesting Languages Updated |
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By host on
7/24/2007
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I have been looking at deferent ways to program as a way to become a better programmer. I have been interested in design-by-contract and functional languages. For this I want languages that are viable options for use in my real life job. While I think Ruby is interesting, I do not think any one wants a heart monitor that is running on Ruby or Eiffel!
So I am glad that Microsoft Research has updated their Spec# (http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/Details/da809d0a-2776-4415-8835-4f24832e0f0d/Details.aspx) and F# (http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/Details/a81e161e-1e4b-42cc-97c2-2ba9b0efba94/Details.aspx) projects!
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Converting from MDF (SQL Server 2005 data file) to SDF (SQL Server Compact data file) |
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7/21/2007
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It is confusing enough that SQL Server Compact has gone through a few name changes! That definitely detracts from its Google juice. I just wanted a quick and dirty way to take an existing single table database and convert it to an SDF for testing on a mobile device.
I expected that this would be supported under the Import / Export wizard of SQL Server 2005, but it is not (http://ssis.wik.is/SSIS_Components). If you have the SQL Server Compact tools installed, you can access sdf from SQL Server Management Studio just like another connection:
You can also issue Queries against a Mobile Database:
Although you can have both connections open in Management Studio you can not copy data between then because SQL Compact does not support select into. It is interesting that you can not browse the table data:
Of course you can issue TSQL select commands against it. Another way to connect to the sdf Compact database is by using the Visual Studio Server Explorer:
As you can see this wa
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