Hardcode

Bing vs Google

andrei — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:17:35 +0000

Ok let’s compare results for an EF how-to: linq to entities group by date

Google results vs Bing results

Bing does not have the expert.tc and questionhub spamsites, and also ranks the msdn forum solution higher (#2 vs #4).

Albeit the correct solution for EF4 involves EntityFunctions.TruncateTime.

Gotchas

andrei — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:47:45 +0000

Small things I always forget:

.equals where comparing strings in Java!

HH:mm instead of hh:mm with DateTime.ToString!

… to be continued

SqlFunctions

andrei — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:26:30 +0000

I had no idea about these functions, you can now use all SQL Server features in Entity Framework 4 Linq queries.

PSDBreaker

andrei — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:51:04 +0000

PSDBreaker is a Photoshop add-in to automatically export your website design to HTML and CSS. It doesn’t use absolute positioning, detects columns and has lots of other nice features, the resulted code is very usable. Give it a try now!

Qt SDK Commercial Pricing

andrei — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:31:35 +0000

ROFL – Nokia wants to kick Android and iOS with their commercial Qt SDK being only 2995 euros ?!

Startup Batch

andrei — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:17:46 +0000

Two startups I wished I’d though of that:
- GazeHawk – Webcam-based eye-tracking website heatmaps, tech-based but not easy at all to develop
- Rapportive – GMail Social Sidebar, much easier to build but harder to monetize ?

VS2010 drop files in editor

andrei — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:31:59 +0000

If you have “Drag and drop text editing” disabled you cannot drop files anymore in the editor (to open them).

Please vote for the bug: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/575691/dropping-files-in-the-editor-does-not-work, maybe they fix it in the SP.

Calling All Innovators – Romania

andrei — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:30:24 +0000

Urbee is finalist: http://www.callingallinnovators.com/romania/

The Old New Thing

andrei — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:22:58 +0000

Win32 guru Raymond Chen answers a comment of mine after 3 years . Thanks God I don’t do Visual C++ anymore, Win32 was an absolute horror .

Windows Live Writer

andrei — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:30:35 +0000

Rules because of one feature: you can paste an image directly in the editor (like in MS Word) and have it posted on the blog, no more saving and uploading.