Category: Programming
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Understanding CPUs and the Business of CPUs Better
I’ve been reading Jon Stokes’ Inside the Machine, and it’s a very good read. In particular I was struck by a couple of simple aspects of how CPUs work. ISA First, let’s discuss ISAs (instruction set architecture). x86 is a famous one created by Intel. POWER is an ISA created by IBM. PowerPC was created […]
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Popup Overlay Auto-Applied to an Anchor with jqModal
Working on a relatively straightforward page, I want to have some of the simpler static contact come up as an overlay style of popup. Following web standards, it would be nice to have this code automatically work based on a CSS class. This would provide two benefits: easy to add more such links without writing […]
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Rake Tasks For NuGet
If you use NuGet, and only check-in your packages.config files to source control, then your source control repository will stay smaller, and checkout faster. Checking in binaries is usually a nice thing to avoid. However, you need new developers to be able to get those libraries locally easily, and to allow your build server (continuous […]
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NHibernate Named SQL Queries with Parameters
Using SQL Queries in the .NET ORM NHibernate with parameters.
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Source Control Considerations for ConnectionStrings in .Net
For .Net projects that have multiple developers, configuration differences can be a real problem. For this post, we’ll use the example of connection strings, but it could just as easily be a directory location, or some other difference. Let’s say that we have two developers, one is using SQL Server, while the other is using […]