Oracle Provider Gets EF Support
Oracle has recently released Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) 11.2 Rel 4 with support for Entity Framework 4.1 and 4.2. This will allow .NET developers working with Oracle database to work with a…
Show-MessageBox.ps1
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- .SYNOPSIS
- This script displays a message box and then processes it
- .DESCRIPTION
- This script firsts creates a wscript.shell object and
- invokes the popup…
Shadowcasting in C#, Part Six
OK, let’s finish up this year and this series. We have an algorithm that can compute what cells in the zero octant are in view to a viewer at the origin when given a function that determines…
LinkedIn Open Sources IndexTank, a Customizable Indexing Engine
LinkedIn has open sourced IndexTank, a document indexing engine that runs on the cloud and lets users customize the indexing process and tweak the results. By Abel Avram
Presentation: On Distributed Failures (and handling them with Doozer)
Blake Mizerany presents various ways that can lead to system failure in distributed systems and how to recover using Doozer, a highly available, consistent data store. By Blake Mizerany
Google Releases Mac Management Tools
Google has a lot of Macs to manage. While Macs haven’t caught up to Windows PCs in the workplace, there are no doubt quite a few admins that are managing quite a few Macs – and looking for…
Mono In 2011
In an year end post, Miguel de Icaza takes us through the major milestones for Mono in 2011. We present a summary here with the timeline. By Roopesh Shenoy
Presentation: Dart: A Structured Web Programming Language
Gilad Bracha introduces Dart, Google’s new language for the web, explaining the reasons behind its conception, what it is and what it is not, some of the main features, and unveiling plans for the…
Check Your Site Speed with Google Analytics
Google has been working on adding a site speed report to Google Analytics for some time, but this week they made it available to all users by default. No additional code necessary, just…
Shadowcasting in C#, Part Four
Last time we saw how many different ways there were to get the calculation of the top cell based on the top vector wrong. Today we’ll take a briefer look at determining the bottom cell.
We know…
Presentation: Code2Cloud: Automating The Whole Software Dev/Deploy Cycle
Ryan Slobojan presents Code2Cloud used to automatically set up a number of tools useful for development and deployment: Hudson, Git, task repository, wiki, Cloud Foundry Deployment Services and…
GitHub's Janky Goes Open Source
With little fanfare, GitHub has released Janky under the MIT license. Janky is a continuous integration (CI) server that runs on top of Jenkins and Hubot, designed to work with projects…
Shadowcasting in C#, Part Three
Before we get started, thanks for all the great comments to the previous couple of posts. I’ll be updating the algorithm to try to make even better-looking circles of light based on the comments….
