Recently, I’ve been dipping my toes into languages and technologies I might not previously have. For the last ten years or so ColdFusion has been my bread and butter. Yes, I’ve tinkered with other languages like Groovy, but now …
Last Thursday the local Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group (TACFUG) held a meeting where our very own Dan Wilson gave preview presentations of two of the four presentations he’ll be giving at CFUnited in the next week.
The first presentation …
I wanted to take a moment and let those developers in the ColdFusion community who haven’t already heard know that this is the last year for CFUnited. Sadly, I’ve heard that it’s lost money the last few years and …
I recently started work on a new project which, to avoid getting into too many details, is a social media application with similarities to Twitter, Facebook, and FourSquare – though it is not a clone of any of these!
This …
Today’s blog entry is a bit off my typical subjects on this blog. But, as someone who works from home for clients across the US, I often have to figure out what, for example, 9am Eastern Time is in …
This year I was introduced to the Pecha Kucha presentation format. For those not familiar with it, Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-cha koo-cha) originated in Japan and translates as “the sound of conversation” or “chit-chat”. A Pecha Kucha presentation lasts …
Source:A Technical Pecha Kucha Con?
Anyone who’s ever hired employees for their business knows that it can be an intimidating hurdle to get past. Beyond the difficulty of picking the right person, you’ve also got a lot of details to take care of. You’ll …
Source:Don’t be Scared of Hiring out of State Employees – Here’s how Alagad Did It
With the new TaskFactory class from .Net 4.0 it has become incredibly easy to manage dependencies between multiple tasks.In below code sample, the TaskFactory receive 6 tasks to execute. Additional logic is added as:- Task A will only be run when Task B and C are completed.- Task C will only be run when Task [...]
Source:Using TaskFactory to manage easily dependencies between threads.
This is my first post of, I hope, a series related to WPF and C#. The examples below are made with VS (Visual Studio) 2010 and .Net 4.0, for this precise example you can make it work with .Net 3.5 at least. During the life of an application we can listen for some important [...]
Source:Get Arguments array from CmdLine of a WPF Application.
This mobile personal assistant looks awesome! Unfortunately, for business model reason (the application is free and make money on referrals fees whenever someone buy through the service), the service works only in the US… Interesting interview to watch with the Siri CEO and VP engineering. Still is a great application to have on your pocket [...]