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ASP.NET MVC: Set Focus, ViewModel Style
In a recent Asp.Net MVC project i had to set a focus on a specific control, but it wasn’t just a specific control. It was calculate in runtime by some conditions. I didn’t just want to create an extra string property on the viewmodel where i could store the id of the control. Off course this would... Continue reading
Short takes on DB2 resources, IBM PureSystems, IDAA, Destination z and IBM Tape turning 60
It''s been a while since I had some short takes. Sometimes I''m making a bookmark thinking ''I''m going to blog
about this''. But then, it''s often too short, too little, just a link, but still, interesting enough to mention. So here we go.
Susan Visser (also on Twitter as @susvis) writes an excellent... Continue reading
Dependency Injection vs. Service Locator
Again, while reading through the Spring documentation, I came across this article of Martin Fowler.
I’ll try to give a summary of his article and my opinions about it.
Introduction
Every professional software engineer should know what dependency injection or inversion of control is about, but i’ll... Continue reading
Posted in Java
Tagged Design, Object Oriented Design, dependency injection, inversion of control, ood, service locator, spring
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Using LINQ to Indexed DB
While the library is still under development, I want to take some time to explain how you can use this framework, and show how easy it gets to work with the Indexed DB. As mentioned before, the library is based on the on the Promises context. This way we can easily handle all the async callbacks on which... Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft
Tagged Architecture, Chrome, Firefox, HTML 5.0, IE10, IndexedDB, Internet Explorer, LINQ, Metro, WinJS, Windows 8
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The world is changing: the future of IT
I’ve had my say on cloud and the new world of IT already in an earlier post, Predictions for the future. Today, I’m seeing signs the world is in fact starting to change. Sites like Instagram started small and grew big in no time. Were the founders IT wonders? No. And you don’t have to be. Not... Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft
Tagged Azure, ICT, Offtopic, Personal, SQL Azure, Scalability, Webfarm, general
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The daily stand up
The standup up is about checking in with the team to show progress, discuss the way forward and resolve blocking or delaying issues. According to the State of Agile survey by VersionOne the daily stand-up is the most used Agile practice at the moment.
First off the concept of a standup... Continue reading
DS8000 – Hardware Withdrawal of older expansion frames and some
Yesterday IBM made the following announcement : ''Hardware withdrawal: IBM System Storage DS8000 Expansion Unit Model 92E and 9AE, and selected feature and model conversions - No replacements available (ZG12-0117)''.
You know what, the DS8000 has had so many model and features numbers since it was first... Continue reading
IBM Impact recap
I’m back, yetlag is over so it’s time to wrap up about IBM Impact.Needless to say, I was pretty impressed with the venue. Hosted at the Venetian in Las Vegas, it was great.But Impact as a congress is awesome. It’s big, I mean REALLY big. 8500 attendants is a lot. This is the main... Continue reading
Slides & code of MSDN Live Meeting: CI using TFS11 & NuGet
Thanks everyone for joining this session!
As promised, here are the slides and code used during the presentation. The Channel9 screencast is now also available.
MSDN Live - CI using TFS11 & NuGet
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MSDN Live Meeting - CI using TFS11 & NuGet... Continue reading

