By now, Windows and Unix are functionally more similar than different.
?iPhone: What cool things can one do with an iPhone and iPad that most people don't know about?While traveling abroad, you can use Google Maps as a free GPS without an international data plan by making use of it's hidden offline maps feature.
Entity Framework and slow bulk INSERTsI’ve been working on an internal project where I needed to load up a large amount of records into a database for testing. On this project I’m using Entity Framework Code First 6.
Deadlocks in Practice: Don’t Hold Locks While NotifyingIn this post: a subtle way that reactive/event-based code can deadlock, how it affects ReactiveCocoa (obj-c) and Reactive Extensions (.Net), and ways to work around the problem. Today I noticed that ReactiveCocoa, the Objective-C port of .
The Future of JavaScript MVC FrameworksWe've known this for some time over here in the ClojureScript corner of the world - all of our collections are immutable and modeled directly on the original Clojure versions written in Java.
Entity FrameworkWith the latest major release of Entity Framework, EF6, the Microsoft object-relational mapping (ORM) tool has reached new heights of “ninja-ness.” It’s no longer the country cousin to long-established .NET ORM tools. EF is all grown up, and it’s winning over former die-hards.
Code Contracts is the next coding practice you should learn and useLast week I was presenting a session covering some practices and tooling we were using to build NDepend at BuildStuff Lithuania 2013. One of the essential practice we are using is Code Contracts and really I was surprised when I asked who was using Code Contracts in the audience.
Data Structure VisualizationThe SQL language has been evolving steadily over the last two decades.
Attack of the logs! Consider building a smarter log handlerWhen it comes to firefighting almost any software issue, logs are essential (and here’s a great story about that).
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.