Using Tika in .NET for extracting text out of documents(is.gd)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 1 year, 10 months ago

Tika is an open source Java-based tool for extracting information out of various different document formats. It can be used with Lucene for indexing and searching documents, among other things. In this post, Kevin Miller talks about how use Tika in .NET via the IKVM.net utility. read more...

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BlogEngine.NET 1.6 Released(nyveldt.com)

submitted by razorant(530) 2 years, 3 months ago

This evening, the BlogEngine.NET team released version 1.6.... read more...

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Exploring Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC – Part 1(nyveldt.com)

submitted by razorant(530) 2 years, 6 months ago

If you are working with ASP.NET MVC and you haven’t taken a look at the Spark View Engine, you owe it to yourself to spend a few minutes exploring Spark. While it might not be for everyone, Spark View Engine offers a different option to the standard WebForms View Engine used in MVC and it has a lot going for it. read more...

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Automatic/Convention-based mapping entities with Fluent NHibernate(blog.jagregory.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 3 years, 4 months ago

James Gregory has a 4-part post on the "auto-mapping" features of Fluent NHibernate. Basically, Fluent NHibernate can automatically map most of your entities based on the conventions you specify and can apply other conventions such as table names, foreign-key constraint naming, etc. This is the first post of the 4, the others are linked as Trackbacks at the bottom. After reading these 4, you should have a better idea of how to get started using the conventional mapping features of Fluent NHibernate. read more...

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Rapid UI Mockups with Balsamiq(codebetter.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 3 years, 7 months ago

Aaron Jensen investigates a cool new tool for rapid UI prototyping read more...

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StructureMap users mailing list setup(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 3 years, 10 months ago

Support and user discussion of StructureMap is being moved from the SourceForge forums to the new Google Groups mailing list. Please subscribe here instead of using the SF forums from now own. Thanks! read more...

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Using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET 1.4(nyveldt.com)

submitted by razorant(530) 3 years, 10 months ago

Now that the latest version of BlogEngine.NET is out, it is easier than ever to get your blog running with VistaDB Express. I’ve been using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET for a little while now and just love it.... read more...

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Video of David Laribee on Domain-driven Design at DevTeach(codebetter.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years ago

David Laribee gave a talk on Domain-driven Design at DevTeach this week and Greg Young took a video of it and put it up on his blog for your viewing pleasure. Dave always gives a great presentation and has great slides and presentation style. It's definitely worth watching if you're interested in DDD and/or alternatives to more traditional forms of .NET application data access. read more...

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A Series on GPU-based Effects for WPF(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by boki(55) 4 years ago

Greg Schechter on the new GPU-based Effects in WPF coming with .NET 3.5 SP1. read more...

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Playing with Mass Transit(colinjack.blogspot.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years ago

Colin Jack takes a first look at 'Mass Transit', an open source messaging service bus framework. He even has a sample application to go along with it! Definitely worth a look. read more...

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Minimal requirements for 'Good' Software(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 1 month ago

Good software isn't just the code, it's the care and feeding of the code. It's important that the code can be found, built, and deployed repeatably by someone other than the original developer. read more...

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SQL is the assembly language of the modern world(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 3 months ago

I really would like to challenge the conventional wisdom that stored procedures are the best and/or that hand-crafted SQL is the only way to achieve good performance. I once heard someone say that "SQL is the assembly language of the business application world" and I totally agree with this (I linked to Jett Attwood's post above, but I heard it somewhere else first and my Google-fu is failing me tonight). read more...

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Waterfall Doesn't Work(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 4 months ago

Waterfall Doesn't Work; All Non-Agile Projects Eventually Devolve into Necessary Sub-Standard Agile. The traditional life cycle approach effectively ignores these issues and developers have been forced to consider other methods to overcome these problems. read more...

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Microsoft and framework designers: Stop using static, internal, sealed(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 4 months ago

A public call for Microsoft and other framework designers to stop burying useful functionality in their APIs and preventing consumers from using or overriding critical parts of the API. read more...

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BlogEngine.NET Video - Preview of Widget framework(blog.madskristensen.dk)

submitted by razorant(530) 4 years, 4 months ago

Mads has put together a short video on his initial widget framework code. It is in the very early stages, but gives insight into where BlogEngine.NET is heading in 1.4. This is very cool. read more...

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TDD CodingDojo session in Austin, TX(lostechies.com)

submitted by chadmyers(840) 4 years, 4 months ago

Announcing a CodingDojo/Randori-style TDD workshop in Austin, TX in early February read more...

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