MongoDB is one of the many free open source NoSQL databases that exist today. I wanted to try out how well the official drivers for C# worked when using Mono. On the MongoDB web site they have pre built binaries of MongoDB for almost every platform, i grabbed the 64 bit binary for OSX. No [...]
Last week a coworker sent me an interesting piece of code: const string a = ""; const string b = ""; const string c = "hello"; const string d = "hello"; Console.WriteLine(ReferenceEquals(string.Empty, string.Empty) ? "Not so surprising…" : "Oh, the humanity!"); Console.WriteLine(ReferenceEquals(a, string.Empty) ? "But I thought string was [...]
I have been working on migrating one of my WordPress sites to a .NET CMS called Orchard. WordPress is great for blogging, but when it comes to extending the functionality, i much rather work with a .NET based CMS then WordPress. Orchard CMS is based on ASP.NET MVC3, Razor, NHibernate and a lot of other [...]
SignalR is a library for .NET to help build real time web applications, in a way it is quite similar to Socket.IO on Node.js. It consists of three main parts: SignalR.Server – .NET code running on IIS SignalR.Js – A SignalR client in javascript SignalR.Client – A SignalR client in .NET. Useful for communicating with [...]
Last week i had a discussion with a friend about C# and passing parameters to methods. My friend asked why it is possible to use the ‘ref’ keyword for a reference type in C# when passing it to a method, he was under the impression that reference types are passed by reference to methods. This [...]
Last week I posted the source code to a small program I wrote in Java to merge images into a sprite. This week I present the same application but in C#, pretty much translated line by line using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Drawing.Imaging; using System.IO; using System.Linq; namespace NSpriteGenerator { class Program [...]
I have been reading about this new startup that offers a service called AppHarbor. It seems very much as the same idea as Heroku for Ruby, but for .NET. The basic idea is that you deploy your code by pushing your code onto the server using Git, the server then builds, runs unit tests and [...]
Yesterday I installed Visual Studio 2010 SP1 on my home computer. After the installation I wanted to upgrade MVC3 to the RTM version (I had the RC version installed), so i uninstalled the RC and downloaded the new version. The installation came half way, then stopped, in the log file i found this: Installation failed [...]
Visual Studio 2010 I don’t think Visual Studio needs an introduction. VS 2010 brought us .NET 4.0 that contains a lot of new goodies! ReSharper ReSharper is the absolut must have for Visual Studio. It provides very improved navigation and search, refactoring, code generation, code cleanup and unit testing. I have gotten so used to [...]
For the last week the news that Nokia has chosen Windows Phone 7 as their main operating system for all their new smart phones has been all over the news. A lot of people are very upset and say that Nokia should have gone with Android instead, or that they should have invested more in [...]