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No, this post is not a tribute to the fabulously kitschy Batman TV series (1966-1968) starring Adam West and Burt Ward. Or a tribute to the onomatopoeic sounds for which it and the Batman comics were famous. This show did however come to mind when I was trying to solve a PowerShell problem and ran across...

Published Sun, Mar 21 2010 9:56 PM by james.kovacs

Filed under: PowerShell
Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – jQuery Live Event Integration

So far we’ve come a long way in this series, starting with some of the basics, and then going deeper with composition with such things as the Bing Maps and Twitter Mashup, Drag and Drop, asynchronous programming among others. One of the nicest aspects so far is the ease of integration into jQuery...

Published Sun, Mar 21 2010 7:33 PM by Matthew.Podwysocki

Filed under: JavaScript, Event-based Porgramming, Reactive Framework, JSConf
IIS 7 URL Rewriter for SEO Friendly URL’s

The other day I commented on how the IIS 7 URL Rewriter can be a neat way to transition your legacy ASP.NET Web Forms URL’s consisting of querystrings to a more RESTful, searchengine-friendly syntax. Actually, this can either be 1) a more transitory solution until you move to the new ASP.NET 4...

Published Sat, Mar 20 2010 11:46 AM by David Hayden
Rob E’s Mini-MVVM Framework @ MIX10

Rob Eisenberg’s MIX 2010 talk, “ Build Your Own MVVM Framework ” was terrific. If you feel modestly comfortable with MVVM, run over and get the video and the code. Rob may be best known for his Caliburn WPF/Silverlight Presentation Development Framework. That’s a hefty body of work and if the word “framework...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 6:20 PM by WardBell

Filed under: MVVM
TDD: Expressive test names

Towards the end of a post I wrote just over a year ago I suggested that I wasn't really bothered about test names anymore because I could learn what I wanted from reading the test body. Recently, however, I've come across several tests that I wrote previously which were testing the wrong thing...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 9:01 PM by markhneedham

Filed under: testing, tdd
MVVM, Josh Smith’s Way

I’ve long admired Josh Smith ’s work. He’s one of the best explainers on the web and he – together with Karl Shifflett and Andrew Smith - gave us Mole , the superb WPF Visual Studio debugger visualizer. I heard recently that he’d published an e-book on Model-View-ViewModel...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 12:24 PM by WardBell

Filed under: MVVM
ASP.NET Performance Framework

At the start of the year, I finished a 5 part series on ASP.NET performance - focusing on largely generic ways to improve website performance rather than specific ASP.NET performance tricks. The series focused on a number of topics, including merging and shrinking files , using modules to remove unecessary...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 11:10 AM by karl
Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Drag and Drop

We’ve covered a bit of ground in this series on the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript , covering the basics, jQuery integration, blocking to asynchronous and further composition. One way I’ve found to really get your hands dirty using this library is to take examples from other libraries and translate...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 1:55 AM by Matthew.Podwysocki

Filed under: JavaScript, Event-based Porgramming, Reactive Framework, JSConf
DevTeach Toronto 2010 Wrap-Up

Another year, another DevTeach . A big thank you to everyone involved. To the organizers, Jean-Rene Roy and Maryse Dubois, thank you for continuing to support and encourage the Canadian developer community. To my fellow Tech Chairs, for helping select an awesome array of both local and international...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 10:01 PM by james.kovacs

Filed under: Presentations, Courses
Essential and accidental complexity

I've been reading Neal Ford's series of articles on Evolutionary architecture and emergent design and in the one about ' Investigating architecture and design ' he discusses Essential and accidental complexity which I've previously read about in Neal's book, ' The Productive...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 7:26 PM by markhneedham

Filed under: software-development
Your chance to heckle me on Ignite your Coding tomorrow

It's my turn next to talk and try to field questions on the new Ignite your Coding podcast tomorrow. It's a little bit different format where you can join the NetMeeting and jump right into the conversation. I'm going to be talking about the whole "Essence vs. Ceremony" discussion...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 10:06 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

Filed under: Blatant Self Promotion
The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript Released

The long awaited day has come as the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript have been released on DevLabs in conjunction with the talk given by Erik Meijer at Mix 2010. Jeff Van Gogh, one of the principal developers on this project has more details and a detailed look at the sample application of ...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 7:49 PM by Matthew.Podwysocki

Filed under: JavaScript, Event-based Porgramming, Reactive Framework, JSConf
Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing deeper

We’ve covered a bit of ground already in this series on the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) from the basic information, creating observers and observables, jQuery integration, composing asynchronous methods with callbacks and in the last post, turned blocking calls into asynchronous calls. ...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 7:59 PM by Matthew.Podwysocki

Filed under: JavaScript, Event-based Porgramming, Reactive Framework, JSConf
Parallel Pair Programming

I've spent a bit of time working with Les recently and it's been quite interesting working out the best way for us to pair together as he's working as a front end developer on the team which means he's best utilised working on the CSS/JavaScript/HTML side of things. Having said that there...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 7:58 PM by markhneedham

Filed under: pair-programming
Testing a WPF UI using Ruby, Cucumber and WiPFlash.dll

Almost two years ago I blogged about Project White, an open source project available on CodePlex which provides an abstraction on top of the UI Automation library built into WPF and Silverlight. Fast forwarding and there is a new project available called WiPFlash which allows you to drive WPF UI's...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 11:50 PM by Ben Hall

Filed under: wpf, ironruby, wipflash, ruby, cucumber