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VirtualBox article

cruizer — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:20:00 GMT

Wow, I haven't updated this blog for quite some time. I'm finding out it's true: Twitter kills blogging. Anyway, my VirtualBox how-to article is out! For those of you who have been hiding under a rock (?), VirtualBox is a freely-available...(read more)

IronRuby and the DLR slides posted in slideshare

cruizer — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:37:00 GMT

Posted the slides for "IronRuby and the Dynamic Language Runtime" in slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/cruizer/ironruby-and-the-dlr I delivered this talk on Saturday, 19 December 2009 at the Community Technology Update 2009 II event. It's...(read more)

Tip: help IronRuby find SharePoint assemblies

cruizer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:00:00 GMT

One of the pain points in having IronRuby access SharePoint classes is that you'll have to help IronRuby find the appropriate assemblies. IronRuby (at least with the 0.9.0 version) has an IronRuby folder underneath the lib folder in its main directory...(read more)

SharePoint + IronRuby

cruizer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:51:00 GMT

Yesterday I was banging my head against a (virtual) wall because of frustration trying to debug a WF -based workflow for SharePoint when I thought of a cool idea: why not use IronRuby and its REPL console to explore the SharePoint object model ? That...(read more)

IronRuby presentation slides and demo code

cruizer — Sun, 24 May 2009 07:54:00 GMT

I have posted the presentation slides (in both PowerPoint 2007 and OpenDocument Presentation formats) and demo code here: [EDIT: added link to SlideShare copy] Presentation slides, PowerPoint 2007 format , OpenDocument Presentation format or view online...(read more)

IronRuby talk tomorrow!

cruizer — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:57:00 GMT

I will be speaking about IronRuby in tomorrow's Community Technology Update event in Singapore. Good thing that IronRuby 0.5.0 was released yesterday ; that gave me enough time to adjust my presentation to take the new version into account. Nothing's...(read more)

LINQ and db4o

cruizer — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:01:00 GMT

I failed to mention in my previous post that db4o also supports LINQ for executing queries against an object database. In order to avail of this feature, a reference should be added to the Db4objects.Db4o.Linq.dll and you need to specify " using...(read more)

Introduction to Object Databases (using db4o)

cruizer — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:12:00 GMT

For the longest time I have been intrigued by object database management systems ( ODBMS ) and I have been wanting to try it out. Of course there are the usual excuses -- I'm busy, I've got no time, I've got so many other projects, etc. Recently...(read more)

Enjoy The Silence

cruizer — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:24:00 GMT

New Year is just around the corner...I mean Chinese New Year ... it's been almost two months since the last TDD blog post! Part 3 is totally overdue. Looks like I enjoyed my Philippine vacation so much, I forgot all about it! Anyway, no more excuses...(read more)

TDD Step by Step, Part 2: The Database

cruizer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:37:00 GMT

Welcome to part two of our series on building a Windows application using test-driven development (TDD). In the previous article we drove the design of our entity classes and data access layer by means of unit tests. The unit tests acted more as specifications...(read more)

TDD Step by Step, Part 1

cruizer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:37:00 GMT

In a hot discussion thread in msforums.ph about the value of unit testing and adopting test-driven development (TDD), a suggestion was made to illustrate how TDD is used in creating a simple application, specifically Keith's October code challenge...(read more)

Data Access with LINQ

cruizer — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:25:00 GMT

I discussed LINQ (LINQ to objects, XML, then SQL) during the Microsoft TechFEST event here in Singapore, and the slides are here . You can download the sample code as well....(read more)

WCF: Shifting from HTTP to TCP

cruizer — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:23:00 GMT

We've decided to shift our project's WCF services from HTTP to TCP. Why? We've got a few reasons: Performance is important. We all know the TCP-based protocol (used by NetTcpBinding) is faster and has lower latency than the HTTP-based protocol...(read more)

A mind-opening article

cruizer — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:19:00 GMT

From MSDN Magazine: Test Your Security IQ Most C/C++ developers should be able to spot all of the security bugs illustrated in the examples; C# coders would find this very informative....(read more)

Some WCF Gotchas

cruizer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:48:00 GMT

A project our team (in my employer) has been working on for a good number of months now makes extensive use of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF is nothing really ground-breaking; its significance is that it unifies the various inter-process...(read more)