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Quite a good title :-). Some weeks ago I find the time to create proof of concept for that task: create a jQuery wrapper for Script#. The result is a partial wrapper that could be completed to support all in all jQuery functionality. The main issues...

We are developing a Silverlight application since some months ago. As you may know, an RTM of Silverlight 2 has been released recently, so we decided to migrate our project to it. Surprisingly, it stopped to work in IE 6 after the migration. The exception...

The command pattern is a behavioural pattern that encapsulates a request made to a certain object inside a Command object. Each type of command knows how to Execute() itself, as well as its target instances. In the example above, taken from the Gang...

Last week I had the chance of giving a lecture with Taha in the context of an InSTEDD presentation about Machine Learning applied in Biosurveillance at the Public Health Informatics course at the Mahidol University in Bangkok. It was a great opportunity...

You know that in C++ a template instatiation like: Foo> is problematic to parse. Nevertheless, Java seems to repeat history and chosed the same simbols for it’s generics, but nobody seems to complain about it. Do you happen to know why? I...

In this post I’ll describe I have been doing for InSTEDD during the last couple of weeks. In one of the projects we have we need to classify a series of articles depending on the geographical location they are talking about. This process is known...

Yesterday I spent some time reading about Haskell implementations of Monads because I want to prepare some exercise. I share some links and snippets http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/monads.html http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Monad Laws & syntax

I’ve written a simple class to allow adding autocomplete to a TextBox. An example of how to use it is: In the XAML file: In the class file: // The texts...

Last Monday I had the opportunity to join Brian Cardiff at OneDay Santander to give a conference on ASP.NET and Ajax. OneDay Santander was an event organized by Microsoft Argentina attended by Banco Santander’s IT team. It was a great experience...

An interesting feature of Silverlight is how the interaction between visuals and logic (this is, between designers and developers) is handled. It uses a so-called Parts and States Model, which is ensured by a contract specified with attributes in the...