Entries from June 2010 ↓

JavaScript Core is unfortunately not a public framework on iOS, leaving us at the mercy of the UIWebView class if we want to execute JavaScript in our applications. I have used JavaScript a lot recently and want to share four gotchas that I have had. Functional code! Turns out that JavaScript is functional, not as [...]

If you ask a Ruby programmer why he is using Ruby, you will probably get several answers like: It is dynamic. I allows me too keep my code DRY. I get results faster. Aside from all these statements, there is one statement that almost always comes up. I use Ruby because it makes me happy! [...]

There is always a time, in configuring and setting up deployment with MSBuild, when you want to start and stop services on a specific machine. You could always run the sc command from an Exec task. But there must be a better way, an of course there is. For most things you need to do [...]

Daniel Vaughan realized that synchronous web service calls are perfectly legal in Silverlight as long as the calls are not made on the UI thread. He wrote a neat library on CodeProject for it. Using Daniel’s library, our Async helper and interfaces for our web services, we can write beautiful web service-calling code in Silverlight: [...]

Do you remember the time before 9/11 when you could arrive to the airport 10 minutes before the plane’s departure and just walk on to the plane. Now, you have to arrive at least an hour before the plane departs and you have to strip to get through a security. The security is just for [...]