March 2007 - Posts

30 March 2007
API lecture
More than 3 hours on how to design an API by Krzysztof Cwalina . Already on my "listen/watch" queue when I return from vacantions... Read More...
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30 March 2007
Open Source projects in .NET
An open letter from D. Starr to Scott G. resulted in a cool discussion about open source projects in the .NET platform. If you have the time, then go read it! [I know this is old, but I'm on vacations:) ] Read More...
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28 March 2007
Printing accented words on a Zebra
Some time ago, I've written a small sample that abstracts some of the details associated with printing to the Zebra. This post explains what you need to do in order to print accented chars to those printers. By default, Zebras use a codepage which don't print accents. Fortunately, setting the codepage... Read More...
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22 March 2007
Javascript free programming books and resources
Today I've found this on one of the blogs I read. Unfortunatelly, I've opened the link in one of my opera tabs and started doing other things at the time. That's why I don't recall where I've gotten this link :( So, If by any chance you were the one that posted about this , please let me know so that... Read More...
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21 March 2007
Getting your intervals right with the AJAXToolkit timespans
The AJAXToolkit introduces a Timespan class that lets you do some interesting things with time intervals. After looking at the class (which is defined on the datetime.js file, inside the common folder), it's obvious that it tries to mimic the Timestamp class of the .NET platform. The good news is that... Read More...
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20 March 2007
My book is out!
As I've said before, I've written a book (portuguese only) about ASP.NET AJAX. After waiting for a long time, it seems like the book is out ! (unfortunately, there's no direct link for a complete page because they keep on insisting on using iframes. if you want to get all the info about it, you'll have... Read More...
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18 March 2007
Book review: PPK on Javascript
During this weekend I've read PPK On Javascript . Petter-Paul Koch, who is responsible for the great quirksmode site , has written a good intro Javascript book. Even though I think some topics deserved better coverage (ex.: debugging - here the author really surprised me by saying that he has no experience... Read More...
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18 March 2007
Does having a CS degree matter?
Yesterday, I talked with an old friend (that I haven't seen for a while) and we ended up talking about CS degrees. Are they really important? Well, I'd say yes...at least, that's what I would say 5 years ago. Why 5 years ago and not now? Simply because I think Joel is absolutely correct: as he says in... Read More...
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16 March 2007
Getting along with the _CommonToolkitScripts - part III
As we've seen in the last part, the _CommonToolkitScripts class has several utility methods that makes our lifes easier when we're doing "multi-browser" programmer (I'm not sure if this word even exists, but i do like it :) ). Today I'm going to write the last post dedicated to this class and I'll present... Read More...
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16 March 2007
Techdays gadget update
Today I've done a small change to the Techdays gadget I've talked about here . You can get it here . Read More...
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16 March 2007
Bertrand on the $ used on methods on the AJAX client library
You can read it here . Read More...
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15 March 2007
Getting serious about sidebar gadgets?
Well, then check Jonathan Abbot's blog. It has already saved me the time to code for automatically registering an activex dll :) Read More...
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14 March 2007
GadgetChecker: a proposal for updating gadgets automatically
I've been playing with SideBar gadgets for some time now. Besides some quirks (ok, they're really bugs :) ), I've been please with how easy it is to build a gadget and deploy it. One of the things I've been missing though, is an auto-update feature that automatically checks a web site and downloads a... Read More...
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14 March 2007
First rant about VS orcas
Yes, we've got better support for Javascript and debugging, but where's the so much needed auto-format option for JS code? please, please, put it in the final release! Read More...
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13 March 2007
Sidebar Gadget docs broken?
Today I've just lost 30 mins trying to enumerate the items that exist inside a folder with the Gadget API. Guess what? The docs aren't correct (I'm not sure why, since Gadgets exist for a long time now). Several things I've found today: I couldn't manage to get the System.Shell.Folder.parse method to... Read More...
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13 March 2007
Book review: Essential Windows Workflow Foundation
Let me start by saying that the book's title is wrong: it should be called something like WF bible :) why? well, because it's really the best book I've seen about WF and, in my opinion, it has most of the things (if not all) you need to know when you're building WF apps. I'm not sure if this book will... Read More...
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11 March 2007
Getting along with the _CommonToolkitScripts class - part II
In part I , we saw how the getLocation/setLocation simplifies getting or setting the position of an HTML element on a page. In this post, I'll talk about several methods which help you getting the size of a specific object. I'll start with getContentSize. This method will return an object which gives... Read More...
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11 March 2007
Getting along with the _CommonToolkitScripts class
The _CommonToolkitScripts client class is defined on the common.js file and contains several helpers which perform several important operations that might come handy when you need to write client components that shoudl work in several browsers. The common.js file also creates a new object of this type... Read More...
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07 March 2007
SQL Server Express SP2
More info here . Read More...
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07 March 2007
This is what happens when you don't have fair play
Valencia isn't really one of my favourite teams, but I must say that after seeing this video , I was really shocked with Inter. That really isn't fair play! I've never seen something like that...In my opinion, Inter's 10 (I think his name is Burdisso) should be banned from football since he was the main... Read More...
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