December 2010 - Page 2 of 2

14 Dec

2010

Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Using Non-Standard Modules

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Node.js:

In previous blog posts, I provided a short introduction to Node.js while also discussing the event-based model that lies at its core. For this blog post, I want to show how to effectively use non-standard JavaScript modules from a Node.js application. As already discussed in the introductory blog post, Node.js comes with a number of […]

13 Dec

2010

WPF–Copy UIElement to Clipboard as Multiple Formats

By: Brian Lagunas Category:UncategorizedTag: WPF, WPF:2 Comments

So about a week ago I wrote a post showing how to Copy a WPF UIElement as an Image to the Clipboard. In reply to that post Rob Relyea made a comment regarding supporting multiple formats on the Clipboard. What do I mean by formats? Well, when copying items to the Clipboard, you an specify […]

10 Dec

2010

ASP.NET (MVC) and the Tale of the Continuous Application Restarts

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Asp.Net MVC:3 Comments

I made a classic rookie mistake with ASP.NET (MVC) the other day. In my spare time, I’m working on this small sample application for myself in order to learn more about ASP.NET MVC. After working on this small web application for a while, I came to the point where I needed to set up a […]

9 Dec

2010

WPF – Copy UIElement as Image to Clipboard

By: Brian Lagunas Category:UncategorizedTag: WPF, WPF:5 Comments

This is a question to all the WPF developers out there. Have you ever wanted to take a snapshot of a UIElement in your WPF application, such as a control or a section of a view, and use to generate a preview or copy it to the clipboard so your user can paste it somewhere […]

9 Dec

2010

A Burden Called Meetings

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Craftsmanship:4 Comments

I?ve been working for an enterprise corporation for 5+ years, which I?m going to be leaving soon. This organization is suffering from a wide-spread malady called ?meetingitis?. This phenomenon bothers me from time to time, especially when I?m being pulled in those pointless meetings, wandering about the same thing over and over again without coming […]

9 Dec

2010

Duplicate DOM elements with the same ID

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post:1 Comment

This is a short post. Saving this snippet it for myself for later. If you ever have a html DOM element with a duplicate ID value, how do you detect the issue? It’s sometimes hard to find/debug until you really understand what has happened. Taking inspiration from the solution in the following stackoverflow question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/482763/jquery-to-check-for-duplicate-ids-in-a-dom […]

3 Dec

2010

Basic JavaScript Part 3 : Prototypes

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: JavaScript:

In previous blog posts, I talked about the rich capabilities of functions and objects in JavaScript. For this post I want to briefly touch on the concept of prototypes. Having a decent understanding of prototypes in JavaScript is highly recommended as they are a very important part of the language. I have to admit that […]

3 Dec

2010

A Quick Virtualization Tale

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

I just went through an experience working with VHDs that I find amazing, frankly. I am not a big sysinternals type of person, so maybe this is no big deal to many readers, but for me it was a very enlightening process. So, cool that I just had to blog it. The Situation I have […]