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• Generating Random Non-Uniform Data In C# 2012-02-21
  When building simulations of real-world phenomena, or when generating test data for algorithms that will be consuming information from the real world, it is often highly desirable to produce pseudo-random data that conform to some nonuniform probability distribution. But perhaps I have already lost some readers who do not remember STATS 101 all those years a […]
  Eric Lippert
• Supporting high-dpi pixel-dense "Retina" Displays like iPhones or the iPad 3 with CSS or IMG 2012-02-21
  I'm loving responsive design and am slowly updating all my websites to support mobile browsers as well as tablets. Currently Hanselman.com (this site), Hanselminutes.com (my weekly podcast), SpeakingHacks.com (a video I sell on how to be a better presenter) as well as LostPhoneScreen.com (where I sell my Windows Phone 7 application.) All of this "m […]
  Scott Hanselman
• ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta 2012-02-20
  A few days ago we released the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta.  This is a significant release that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities.  The ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release works with VS 2010 and .NET 4.0, and is side-by-side compatible with prior releases of ASP.NET MVC (meaning you can safely install it and not worry about it impacting your existi […]
  ScottGu
• ReSharper 6.1.1: New Maintenance Release Available 2012-02-16
  Did you report issues with ReSharper 6.1? Did you take part in the latest early access program? If you did, chances are that your efforts are now being rewarded: we have just made available ReSharper 6.1.1: a new maintenance release of the awesome Visual Studio productivity tool. Let’s put it this way: if you’re fine with version 6.1, you probably shouldn’t […]
  Jura Gorohovsky
• LINQ and Productivity 2012-02-15
  Bill Wagner shows how a reasonable investment in learning the LINQ toolset pays off heavily in programmer productivity, both for you and the rest of your team.
  Bill Wagner
• Bad Metaphors 2012-02-13
  The standard way to teach beginner OO programmers about classes is to make a metaphor to the real world. And indeed, I do this all the time in this blog, usually to the animal kingdom. A "class" in real life codifies a commonality amongst a certain set of objects: mammals, for example, have many things in common; they have backbones, can grow hair, […]
  Eric Lippert
• PetaPoco – Convention Based Fluent Mapping 2012-02-13
  After using the Fluent Mapping’s I blogged about a few months ago, I started to see patterns occurring. My table names were always the pluralized type and the primary key was the Type name concatenated with “Id”. With all this repetition, I decided that conventional mappings were needed and that they should be overridable for the edge case. Here is the simpl […]
  Schotime
• It's 2012 and your kids have an iPhone - Do you know where they are? I do. 2012-02-11
  The strangest thing just happened. I'm sitting here in a hotel in New Zealand and my phone pops up an alert from a push-to-talk voice chat application I recently installed called Voxer. It's a voicemail from a tween (a child perhaps not quite 13 - in-between) teasing me about my name. "Scott Hanselman - Who would name their kid Scott HanselAnd […]
  Scott Hanselman
• Udi & Greg Reach CQRS Agreement 2012-02-10
  Hard to believe, isn’t it? Although both myself and Greg have been saying (quite publicly) for a long time now that we’re in agreement in about 99% of the DDD/CQRS content we talk about, it turns out the terminology we use has made it very difficult for everybody else to see that. Anyway, on a recent call with Greg and the Microsoft Patterns & Practices […]
  udidahan
• Private social network homepage clones 2012-02-08
  Apparently if you want to be a player in the private social networking space you must adhere to a very specific formula when designing your homepage. Do not forget the company email address input at the top and the list of customers using your product at the bottom. I actually got confused momentarily as to which site I was looking at when jumping between ta […]
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• What is "binding" and what makes it late? 2012-02-06
  "Late binding" is one of those computer-sciency terms that, like "strong typing", means different things to different people. I thought I might describe what the term means to me. First off, what is "binding"? We can't understand what it means to bind late if we don't know what it is to bind at all. A compiler is by de […]
  Eric Lippert
• What's the difference? Trenchcoat vs Duster 2012-02-03
  Today, yet another episode in my ongoing series "What's the difference?" This time, a non-computer-related topic. I am often complimented on my choice of outerwear in the Seattle rainy season, and I hate to respond to a well-meant compliment with a correction. So I usually let all those "Nice trenchcoat!" comments slide and just say […]
  Eric Lippert
• The Web is the new Terminal: Are you using the Web's Keyboard Shortcuts and Hotkeys? 2012-02-02
  NUI is OUI, Dear Reader. About eight years ago I blogged about "text mode" and said (if I may be silly and quote myself): "I’m just saying that my Tab,Tab,Tab,Enter will beat your Click,Tab,Alt-F,O,Click,Double-Click, more often than not." - Me I like to look at the computer systems of the businesses that I visit on a regular but spaced a […]
  Scott Hanselman
• Roadmap for creating Metro style apps using C# 2012-02-01
  This Windows Dev Center topic helps you get started with developing apps in C#.
  Mick Alberts
• What's New in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview? 2012-02-01
  This MSDN Library topic describes C# features that are new or enhanced in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview.
  Mick Alberts
• Building a Windows Metro style RSS reader 2012-02-01
  Eric Vogel walks through demo for building a Metro style RSS reader in this Visual Studio Magazine article.
  Mick Alberts
• Using speech recognition in C# 2012-02-01
  Robert Lucero describes how to use basic speech recognition in C#.
  Mick Alberts
• Prompts and Directories - Even Better Git (and Mercurial) with PowerShell 2012-02-01
  I love PowerShell and spent years and years working with it since it first came out. I've actually got 15 or so pages of PowerShell posts on this blog going way back. PowerShell is insanely powerful. I would even go so far as to say it was (is) ahead of its time. PowerShell is totally dynamic and is almost like having JavaScript at the command line, but […]
  Scott Hanselman
• One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell 2012-02-01
  For the most part, I'm an ASP.NET developer. I don't need to specify MVC or Web Forms, because it's all One ASP.NET its core. My apps are often hybrids and include not just Web Forms or MVC but also SignalR and Web API. Web Forms often gets picked on because of large View State, weird markup or maybe folks don't like the controls model. H […]
  Scott Hanselman
• C++ and Beyond 2011: Scott, Andrei and Herb - Ask Us Anything 2012-01-31
  Check out this video of a panel discussion from C++ and Beyond 2011.
  Mick Alberts