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Since some time ago, there seems to be a fight between two “philosophies” as regards web applications. Each philosophy has its own representatives amongst the various frameworks or platforms we can select to help us develop our app. On one hand there...

Yesterday remy sharp update jQuert Tag Suggestions plugin a list of fixes can be found here. The new features are really good: Be able to use multi words tags by specifying the separator. (my contribution) Added filtering to prevent already selected...

Update: The code has moved to NetFx project at http://code.google.com/p/netfx/source/browse/trunk/Source/Guard.cs. In the task of validating function arguments, usually a sealed class Guard is created. For example, if we want to validate for null...

In these days of agile and TDD, most probably you had to deal with mocks. In such case, you have two options: create hundreds of mock classes by hand, one for each expected behavior for every unit test, or use a mock framework. There are many mock...

Some time ago I wrote a post about how to create REST clients using WCF and taking advantage of its extensibility to obtain a type safe endpoint. My approach implied create a bunch of WCF behaviors and other extensions that intercepts the messages...

Automatic "Organize Usings" when saving files on VS2008

Here are some Java tips for making your code more beautiful, understandable, reliable and maintable. They are in no particular order. Suppose your code will be read by somebody else. Even if you are working on a project on your own, it’s worth commenting...

Build Xml files in Ruby

Maybe this example is not impressive as an entire ray tracer in a single line, but it gives an idea of the expressiveness of LINQ. I remember from my high school times, the internal spontaneous competitions looking for the “fastest” prime generators...

In the last weeks I faced a real world example of an ASMX to WCF migration. The existing services has been relying in many of the features available in ASMX, and a complete rewrite would not be an option. Kenny Wolf describes in a post how to reuse...