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[Book Review] Angular JS Services

Angular JS services by Jim Levin is a delightful addition to a topic which isn’t discussed as much as the framework itself. Angular, as a powerful structural framework for dynamic web apps has been topic of various well publicized texts. However the services, which provide the core of backend functionality, don’t get much lime-light. c’est…

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Teaching Functional Programming to Professional .NET Developers

An informative paper by Tomas Petricek of University of Cambridge. Abstract. Functional programming is often taught at universities to first-year or second-year students and most of the teaching materials have been written for this audience. With the recent rise of functional programming in the industry, it becomes important to teach functional concepts to professional developers with deep knowledge of…

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GAC Changes in Windows Server 2012

Prior to Windows Server 2012, gacutil is typically used to install DLL files in the Windows Global Assembly Cache (GAC). With Windows Server 2012 unfortunately it's not quite so easy. Being able to simply open the GAC in Explorer and drag/drop is gone (so yeah, no shell!). Also GacUtil.exe is not present on the server…

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WCF Handling Nested Attributes in AttributeGroup

tldr; SVCUtil does not Generate Code for Nested Attributes in AttributeGroup; here is the code (github repo) and explanation of a workaround. Beyond Controlled HelloWorld() samples, interoperability standards are not black and white, rather a process that has shades of gray. If you've worked on consuming 3rd party 'enterprise' API's, you may have encountered problems with flattening of…

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LyX/LaTeX formatting for the C# code

If you are googling trying to find a good way to insert C# code in LyX, this is where you'd probably end up. MaPePer has provided a very good solution; I have modified it slightly (hiding tabs and removing comments) and following is illustration on how to use it in LyX. First thing you'd need is a…

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AngularJS Learning Resources

AngularJS Overviews/Whirlwind Tours Everything you need to understand to start with AngularJS http://stephanebegaudeau.tumblr.com/post/48776908163/everything-you-need-to-understand-to-start-with   AngularJS 101: Everything you need to know to get started http://www.slideshare.net/sbegaudeau/angular-js-101-everything-you-need-to-know-to-get-started One Hour AngularJS Boot Camp AngularJS Fundamentals in 60-ish Minutes (free video training) http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2013/04/12/video-tutorial-angularjs-fundamentals-in-60-ish-minutes.aspx   AngularJS in 60 Minutes (free eBook) http://fastandfluid.com/publicdownloads/AngularJSIn60MinutesIsh_DanWahlin_May2013.pdf In-Depth Online Courses A Better Way to Learn…

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Cloud Computing and CQRS Resources

MSDN Blogs: Cloud Architecture Series - CQRS Part 1 (Bruno Terkaly) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brunoterkaly/archive/2012/02/07/cloud-architecture-series-cqrs-command-query-responsibility-segregation-part-01.aspx  MSDN Magazine: CQRS on Windows Azure (Mark Seeman) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg983487.aspx Book: Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing: A journey into high scalability, availability, and maintainability with Windows Azure (MS Patterns & Practices) http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-CQRS-Event-Sourcing-maintainability/dp/1621140164 And a few backgrounders: CQRS - a new architecture precept based on…

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