ASP.NET MVC5 and LESS intros

December 8, 2013 at 8:17 PMalex

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Functional languages

October 29, 2013 at 5:07 PMalex

Despite some antagonistic crowd that was left behind, I'm rather more and more involved in working with the area of languages design.

Here is some interesting read about functional languages which provides a general overview of history of functional and imperative languages:

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cs.pdf

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Innovation versus core business

July 22, 2013 at 1:58 PMalex

Steven Sinofsky is not doubt a great mind behind Windows Platform. Read on his recent post regarding innovation versus core business and how it should be approached:

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130721143938-2293107-shiny-objects-tips-for-using-both-sides-of-your-brain

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LED reduce crashes by 3%, a study says

April 22, 2013 at 9:19 PMalex

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WinRT JS differences from in-browser JavaScript

March 12, 2013 at 3:14 PMalex

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Setting up python environment variables in Windows

October 4, 2012 at 4:36 AMalex

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.Net 4.5 Framework XmlSerializer breaking changes

September 10, 2012 at 11:30 AMalex

The following code demonstrates that 4.5 and 4.0 XmlSerializer behavior is different.

 

See bug on Microsoft's Connect site for details:

 

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/761786/net-4-5-xmlserializer-produces-different-output-from-4-0#details

Update 1/29/2013: Microsoft fixed this bug.

 

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Service Bus for Windows Server

September 6, 2012 at 2:32 PMalex

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.NET 4.5 API changes and source code

September 6, 2012 at 2:25 PMalex

.NET API subset for Windows Store Apps is considerable smaller than the full .NET Framework 4.5. Particularly, Reflection.Emit is not available and most members in the System.Type class have been moved to the System.Reflection.TypeInfo class.

 

http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/08/reflection-windows-store-apps

Also, check out complete source code:

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx

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Mocking WebRequest in .Net

July 3, 2012 at 11:28 PMalex
In .net there is a build-in ability to mock up any http uri. See code after the break. More...

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