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Programming Windows 8: The Sublime To The Strange
Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 at the //build/ conference in September. Since then I've spent time seeing how to put together Windows 8 metro applications with HTML and JavaScript. The Sublime The...

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Getting Intrinsic HTML5 Video Dimensions
The HTML 5 DOM interface for a video element allows you to get the underlying video's width and height in pixels, but, be careful not to ask for the dimensions too early. If you ask as soon as the...

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Composing Entity Framework Fluent Configurations
The canonical example for fluent configuration with the Entity Framework is to take a few simple entity definitions: public class Product { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name {...

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Modernizr.js: Polyfills
In the last post we looked at feature detection with Modernizr. Before moving forward, let me answer a few questions that came up. First, you can build a custom Modernizr download containing only...

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Architectural Tragedy of the Commons
From Wikipedia: The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest,...

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Modernizr.js : Feature Detection
As we saw in a previous post, Modernizr allows you to work with the new HTML 5 elements, like nav, and still support browsers that don't know anything about a nav, or HTML 5. However, HTML 5 is...

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ParallelLoopState and Parallel.ForEach
The Task Parallel Library is a joy to work with – it's easy to use and thorough. Recently I was using Parallel.ForEach to process a large collection, but wanted to stop processing early, across all...

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Modernizr.js
Modernizr.js is a little library that will help "modernize" old browsers. As an example, let's say you create a new ASP.NET MVC 3 application with the "Use HTML 5 semantic markup" checkbox...

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Rise and Fall of Classic OOP
When I was making the switch from C and assembly to C++ I did quite a bit of reading on object oriented programming. It's hard to find material on OOP that doesn't praise the classical pillars of...

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Execute<T> With IronRuby
Imagine (or dream) that you have some IronRuby code to execute. require 'net/telnet' host = Net::Telnet.new(:Host => 'localhost') #... #... #... return data One way to execute the code and...

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