October 2007
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How Much I Rely on Class Libraries
Ok, so I was stamping out a recent (quite simple) assignment for a class. The assignment required the separation of each place value in an integer. Since the information came into the program as a string, I stamped out a simple solution using some easy loops and handy methods available in the String class (of [...]
SqlLite Linq Provider
Ok, so as many of you may have noticed in my last post I’ve taken a real interest in C# 3.0 and its new nifty features. Now, I’m mostly just excited for the simple collection manipulations, but the whole Linq to SQL thing is nagging in the back of my mind. Now while complete CRUD [...]
The Changing Face of High-Level Programming
Ok, so I’m sure most MS .Net dev’s have already seen these posts far too many times, for the Mono users out there, I have a little treat. While Moonlight and WPF get tons of hype, I think the biggest and most exciting change coming soon to a C# compiler near you is support for [...]
Waking Up In the Middle of the Night
It happens.. even running on so little sleep, I still find myself waking. Fortunately, this time I awoke with an awesome realization. I’ve been pounding my brain against the wall for a week now on how to further refine/increase the accuracy of my original relation-based ranking system. My initial results had been less than stellar [...]
Banshee Ipod Playlist Support
It looks like the monster might finally start to lay itself to rest. After almost 2 years, one of the most basic feature requests for Banshee looks like it will finally be fulfilled. I’m talking about playlist syncing to iPods. While there have been a plethora of patches in varying states of readiness always floating [...]
Building More Relationships in Beagle
Today I checked in a few fun changes to Beagle today focused on the idea of emphasizing relationships between entities. It doesn’t sound like a whole lot of fun, but its kinda nifty. New Query Context Options Find Documents by same author. Find E-mails from same contact. Find Pages from same site. In addition (building [...]