Just published a library I created on one of past jobs out of Updater Application Block and WiX’s ClichThrough component. Please meet: DotUpdater It can auto-update an application, just create a RSS feed of updates and Windows Installer (MSI) binaries.
Imagine a task (actually, quite common), if you have: a nodes (articles, ads, whatever) taxonomy in Drupal, a taxonomy-based url path rewrites, like /monkeys/primates/homosapiens and want to show a block/page View with articles only from current path term (and, maybe, its subterms). It might be a hard time finding out the current term. One could [...]
In case you, like me, need to compare version of Office documents (under Windows), just know that TortoiseSVN got a pretty set of scripts for that. It works out of box! YES! You can compare Office documents just like plaintext files!. Just tried it and it worked. If you were afraid of trying, like me [...]
We’re trying Grails, Rails-like web application framework for Java. It’s fine, just that Groovy debugger support is, er, imperfect, even in the best Gruoovy IDE – IDEA. And, if you want to unit test, you won’t have fancy domain class methods addTo* – like Customer.addToOrders(). They’re generated by Grails on startup. In order to have [...]
Just dealt with another Visual Studio 2008 “feature”. You can specify all the necessary “Project Dependencies” in Visual Studio, but will get “CSC : error CS0006: Metadata file FooBar.dll could not be found“. Even if your csproj files have correct references to other solution projects, msbuild will fail. Maybe it appears only if project output [...]
I just won a bet for $10 by solving a quiz:
Check the correctness of a braces, brackets and parentheses sequence. The solution should be of linear complexity (to say more, it’s 1-pass).
It’s basically solved in 15 lines, all others being auxiliary. Can you reproduce the algorithm?
Whenever you implement own datasource for .NET GUI binding, you’lll have the choice – whether to implement IList or IListSource. IListSource is a simplistic interface with two members: IList<T> GetList() and bool ContainsListCollection; MSDN help about IListSource.ContainsListCollection states it’s “indicating whether the collection is a collection of IList objects”. MSDN is not true here. If [...]
I’m going to start with reposting my older articles written in Russian. To be honest: It’s a self-promotion blog which has the chance to be commercial. OTOH, this also means the articles will be carefully reviewed, filtered and refined. I promise that I’m intending to maybe do it
