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Category Archives: Web Development
Running Scheduled Perl Scripts in Azure Using Strawberry Perl and Quartz.Net
Background (or Why would I even think to do this?): I inherited some useful scripts that were written in perl. When I started working with them, it was far easier to refresh my decade-old knowledge of perl than to rewrite … Continue reading
Posted in ASP.Net, Azure, Perl, Web Development
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Debug an NUnit test in Visual Studio 2010 with nunit-console-86.exe
This is for my own future reference. I had nunit tests that I was able to debug without any problem in Visual Studio 2008, with a dll that was targeting .Net 2, but I needed a feature in .Net 4 … Continue reading
Posted in ASP.Net, nunit, Web Development
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Screen Scraping NCAA.org Player Statistics
The NCAA collects player statistics from many different sports, but if you want to get that data, it’s not always easy. It’s not like they have an open API. Recently, I wanted to get the season-long statistics for all NCAA … Continue reading
Posted in Hackathon, Miscellaneous, PHP, Sports, Web Development
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Book Review / Overview: “High Performance JavaScript” by Nicholas C. Zakas
Review: I finally got a chance to finish reading “High Performance JavaScript”. This has been on my to do list for almost a year. I bought the book after seeing an online video of Nicholas Zakas speaking about JavaScript performance, … Continue reading
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Book Review: “Using the HTML5 Filesystem API” by Eric Bidelman
Review: “Using the HTML5 Filesystem API” is a good read. It’s small, but concise, and the perfect size (for me). The book covers the evolving specification that is the HTML5 FileSystem API. It isn’t implemented in every browser but does … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, HTML5, Web Development
Tagged Filesystem API, HTML5, JavaScript, review
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Liferay 5.1.2 Web Services with a .Net Consumer
This is a simple step-by-step list of how to access the Liferay UserService from a C#.Net client, using Visual Studio 2010 to generate the proxy classes. I’m including this here because I ran into a number of issues while doing … Continue reading
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Vermont Hackathon aka VTHackathon
I’ve been attending a lot of free developer events over the last few years. I’ve been incredibly impressed at the generosity of speakers to give their time and of sponsors and hosts to donate space, food, swag, and even significant … Continue reading
Posted in Hackathon, JavaScript, Miscellaneous, Mobile, Web Development
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Is JavaScript eval really evil?
You may have heard this before: “eval is evil”. But is it really? And if so, why is it? I’ll start with a quote: “The eval function and its relatives (Function, setTimeout, and setInterval) provide access to the JavaScript compiler. … Continue reading
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Book Review / Overview: “JavaScript Web Applications” by Alex MacCaw
Review: Wow. This book covers so much content that it could easily have been split into 2, 3, or maybe even 4 books. It is a book on building applications, not web sites (though many of the techniques would … Continue reading
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Liferay 5.1.2 logging
This post is a simple reminder to myself on how to change the logging of Liferay 5.1.2. I have a simple install of Liferay on tomcat 6.0. To change logging, just edit webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes\log4j.properties and restart the server. I added this … Continue reading
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In the sludgy, squdgy creek 