I just uploaded my first app to the Google App Engine – which is unbelievably simple with play! framework and the gae module. The application for my test is just 10 lines of code in the controller and all it…
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play! framework and Google App Engine
Synchronize a long-running task to the UI-Thread in WPF/.NET
This post explains how to process data from a task in WPF in a way I’d consider “best-practice”. The main code could or should be in the view-model. Code-behind (keep it short or better yet use a delegate command) And…
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Kubuntu/Ubuntu 11.10 fix
Just a quick note: After updating to Kubuntu 11.10 today, Firefox didn’t startup anymore and the console told me: mattanja@tiger:/opt$ /opt/firefox/firefox bash: /opt/firefox/firefox: No such file or directory Obviously it’s a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/852101?comments=all The workaround & fix is to reinstall libc6-i386:…
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Howto: Task and issues tracking with Redmine and Eclipse Mylyn
While working on one of my current projects I came to realize the importance of good task management and issue tracking. Sadly the use of an expensive Team Foundation Server does not guarantee good task tracking when the tasks are…
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Useful SQL Server Management Studio extension
Today I discovered a very useful plugin for MS SQL Server Management Studio that has a big feature list and can help out when you miss code completion or need to create stored procedures for CRUD operations. http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/ Enjoy!
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Replace Linebreak in Excel
Just a quick note because this helped me a lot To replace a linebreak in an excel cell: In Excel, choose Edit>Replace Click in the Find What box Hold the Alt key, and (on the number keypad), type 0010 This…
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Apache ODE modification framework
A little late I am now publishing the source code of the demonstration prototype of my diploma thesis. The thesis has been about runtime modification of BPEL processes. The modification is based on the svn trunk of Apache ODE located…
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Enable add-ons for recent version of Firefox minefield
I am using the trunk version of firefox a lot because it’s much faster than the current official version. Recently the preference to enable old versions of extensions in firefox has been changed: extensions.checkCompatibility has been renamed to extensions.checkCompatibility.VERSION With…
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ASP.NET MVC
This is just a public draft, containing mvc related links… Best Practices / Richtlinien Model-Binding entweder mit Parameter-Blacklist, oder über Whitelist http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2009/05/06/More-ASPNET-MVC-Best-Practices.aspx Put your controllers on a diet Controllers should be really thin: they only accept an incoming request, dispatch…
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Finished studying! And starting to blog!
Recently I handed in my diploma thesis and this week I finished the last thing to do at university and did the presentation of my thesis – I am done studying!! And with finishing to study, I finally decided to…
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