One of my most-visited posts is the jQuery plugin “beautyOfCode” for the version 1.5 of Alex’ Syntax Highlighter. The main point of doing a wrapper was, that version 1.5 did require invalid html code.
In the new version of Syntax Highlighter this is fixed. But still, people ask for a new version of my code, too.
I [...]
Archive for May, 2009
beautyOfCode – jQuery plugin for Syntax Highlighter 2.0 by Alex Gorbatchev
Posted in Web Development, tagged beautyOfCode, code highlighting, javascript, jQuery, Syntax Highlighter on May 28, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Microsoft “Oslo” May CTP available (Including Quadrant)
Posted in mdsd, oslo, tagged intellipad, M, mdsd, mdsd+.net, MGrammar, Microsoft "M", Microsoft Oslo, msoslo, oslo on May 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The "Oslo” team has released the third CTP of Microsoft’s forthcoming modeling platform.
Some of the changes are:
Quadrant is included (Q&A)
MGrammar and M are partially merged. One tool, one specification, but still *.mg and *.m files. The goal is, to have one language one day. Awaiting more information here.
Some rather minor language changes [...]
Architecture.NET Open Space 2009 (Germany)
Posted in Just Drops, dotnet, tagged .NET, architecture, archnet09, german on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Am 5. und 6. Juni 2009 veranstaltet mein Arbeitgeber itemis zusammen mit Die Software-Architekten und SOPTIM einen Open Space mit dem Thema “Erprobte Konzepte für Unternehmensanwendungen in .NET”.
Die Zielgruppe sind erfahrene und angehende Softwarearchitekten.
Mehr Informationen und das Anmeldeformular gibts auf der Webseite zum Event: Architecture.NET @ mixxt
Die Idee zu diesem Event ist auf [...]
RT: History of Programming Languages
Posted in Just Drops, tagged csharp, gosling, hejlsberg, java on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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1996 – James Gosling invents Java. Java is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface inheritance. Sun loudly heralds Java’s novelty.
2001 – Anders Hejlsberg invents C#. C# is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object [...]
The transaction has aborted. Tricky .NET TransactionScope Behavior.
Posted in dotnet, tagged bug, frustration, TransactionAbortedException, transactions on May 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This Error took me a bunch of time to find. Why? Well, I’m just not smart enough.
The code says everything:
[Test]
public void When_some_transaction_disposes_without_error_or_complete()
{
// entering an ambient transaction
new TransactionScope();
// start a nested transaction
var t2 = new TransactionScope();
// [...]
