December 2008 - Sergio Pereira - Devlicio.us

Playing with Ruby 1.9 - named parameters (sort of)

I just installed Ruby 1.9.1 RC1 alongside my stable 1.8.6 installation. I'm planning to experiment with the changes and new language features for both using them in new code and upgrade old code (or at least protect old code from potential breaking...

Published 12-31-2008 12:53 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Ruby

jQuery Character Table

The other day I was looking for the HTML code for the ⌘ (in case you can't see it, that's the command key symbol), found in mac keyboards. It was not the first time I was looking for the HTML code for one of those funky characters. I remember...

Published 12-29-2008 7:31 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: Tips-and-Tricks, JavaScript

One less diacritical mark to annoy me

Being a Portuguese-speaking person living in the US, one of the things you have to get used to is the keyboard physical layout and key mappings. You know, Latin-originated languages tend to have thôse wéìrd chãraçtërs , which...

Published 12-26-2008 12:57 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: Tools, Development, Tips-and-Tricks

Language Envy - episode 0

Although C# is the language that I can call myself proficient enough to make a living these days, there are other languages that I have to use for specific tasks (like JavaScript, SQL, XSLT.) I also like using other general purpose languages for pure...

Published 12-24-2008 4:32 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Ruby, Series, Language-Envy

Presentation Remote

In the last few months I have been using my MacBook to give presentation, both at work and not. I've been meaning to buy one of those presenter remotes. I even got to borrow one and tried it once and I must say it worked pretty well. Then I remembered...

Published 12-20-2008 2:03 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: Tools, Tips-and-Tricks

Thank you LCNUG

Thanks to the brave souls that ignored the incredibly exaggerated Winter storm warnings and insane weather forecast for last night. These folks came to the LCNUG meeting and were home before the first snow flake hit the ground. Also, thanks LCNUG for...

Published 12-19-2008 8:18 AM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, JavaScript, Community

IE8 Readiness and IETester

Today I started researching and preparing my application for IE-8, or at least knowing what we would need to take care of before its release sometime next year. I started by downloading the VPC image with IE8 beta 2 because it seemed much more convenient...

Published 12-15-2008 5:18 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: Tools, Development

Talk: JavaScript - Beyond the Curly Braces

Next week I'll be speaking at the Lake County .NET Users' Group , in Grayslake, IL. The topic will be something that is near and dear to me and which I have talked and written about quite a number of times. If you live in the North 'burbs...

Published 12-09-2008 12:09 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, JavaScript, Announcement, Community

Trying out a Randori

Tonight's meeting of the Software Craftsmanship Group was led by Uncle Bob Martin . This time around we tried a Randori-style coding dojo . The task was to build a clock and, although we fell short of the original goal of having a GUI, there was plenty...

Published 12-08-2008 9:50 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: Ruby, Development, Video, Community

Reusing Views in ASP.NET MVC for Ajax Updates

The other day I came across this post in Marteen Balliauw's blog where he demonstrates and interesting way to make the same ASP.NET MVC view render correctly from both a regular request and an Ajax request. In Marteen's post he uses a custom ActionFilterAttribute...

Published 12-05-2008 8:25 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Tips-and-Tricks

Chicago ALT.NET Lightning Talks

For this month's of meeting we will be doing something we had been thinking about for a while. With so many members that always bring interesting contributions to our meetings, we will just have an open projector night. I'm looking forward to...

Published 12-01-2008 12:42 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: alt.net, Announcement, Community

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