Monthly Archives: October 2007
Databind a ComboBox to an Enum and your business object
Databinding intelligently in .net is usually pretty easy. Recently I wanted to quickly bind a combobox where the items are the values of an enum made up of single words and the selected value is tied to my data object. I was surprised that it wasn’t all that straighforward. Here’s me saving you some time [...]
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War on: Grafitti
Urban artist Ellis G has been arrested for drawing art on the sidewalks. How shameful. His art is drawing the shadows cast by objects in chalk. It’s beautiful and interesting. And it washes away. I’ve happened on his little drawings a few times, always happy to see them. Nobody pays him, he just does it. [...]
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links for 2007-10-26
Smart Editor – Yahoo Hackday India hack As you type it gets web search results to inform you about related stuff on the net, related news happening around the world, Flickr photos to help you visualize, and amazon recommendations. One step closer to having agents that assist your thinking. (tags: mashups flickr amazon api mashup [...]
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Offline and online
Google came out with a good idea a while ago called Google Gears. The idea is to make some of these new fangled web applications able to function when you aren’t connected to the internet. It never seemed like that great of an idea to me, but I’ve been using a personal Wiki to track [...]
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links for 2007-10-24
NYC Domestic Partnership given: A & B are nyc residents A & B > 18 A & B not married or related A & B live together neither A or B is in another partnership Then A & B can form a domestic partnership. also: rights of domestic partners (tags: marriage partners law nyc domestic)
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links for 2007-10-23
Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern Martin fowler on how to properly do inversion of control… This is a good pattern for writing software with plugins. Plugin architecture protects you from feature creep and bloat. (tags: plugin programming design patterns injection development)
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Making the switch to Ubuntu
Yesterday morning, the 7.10 version of Ubuntu was released. It’s supposed to be chock full of goodness, so my neighbor Lawyer Matt and I had an install party with Aaron and Ian. I dug out an old IBM Thinkpad T20 laptop that had been lying around and we got to it. I’d tried various Linux [...]
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links for 2007-10-19
Schneier on Security: Future of Malware Curious parallels between ETF or mutual funds and the bundling of infected computers for sale to criminals. How far does the analogy go? (tags: security online finance investing)
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links for 2007-10-18
Scientist debunks nomadic Aborigine ‘myth’ | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited Before white settlers arrived, Australia’s indigenous peoples lived in houses and villages, and used surprisingly sophisticated architecture and design methods to build their shelters, new research has found. (tags: culture australia anthropology aboriginal architecture history) sniggle.net: The Culture Jammer’s Encyclopedia Way too much to [...]
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links for 2007-10-31