Archive for November, 2008

Aero Snap

Posted by gamlerhart in tools on November 25, 2008

This little tool brings the ‘snap’ behavior of windows 7 to Vista and XP. Its still beta and is missing some some eye-candy, but it works basically. Website: http://www.aerosnap.de.vu/ found on: http://www.vistablog.at/stories/33014/

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Brian Beckman: The Zen of Stateless State – The State Monad

Posted by gamlerhart in channel 9 on November 24, 2008

There’s a new wonderful interview with Brian Beckman on Channel 9. This time he’s explaining more details about functional programming and the theoretical basics to avoiding obscured state. Part One Part Two

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I Really Need More Disk Space

Posted by gamlerhart in software-development on November 12, 2008

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Dead Set

Posted by gamlerhart in Media Zap Oh Snap on November 11, 2008

The Big Brother fans go crazy in front of the Big Brother building during the eviction of the next candidate. The crowd is cheering and screaming. Suddenly panic spreads fast. The Living Dead has reached the camp, hunting, killing and feeding on the people still alive. The candidates survive, because there in the sealed Big [...]

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

Posted by gamlerhart in software-development on November 10, 2008

The preview of the new Visual Studio and .NET Framework is available. I will try it out soon.

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More IntelliJ Idea 8.0

Posted by gamlerhart in software-development on November 10, 2008

After the release of version 8.0 I’ve immediately started using it. Here a small list of little improvements, which may aren’t that obvious: Language-Injection IntelliJ Idea supports a wide range of programming languages: Java, Groovy, JavaScript, SQL  XML, HTML and more. Often a language is embedded within another language. For example SQL in Java-Code, or [...]

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True Blood (First season, still running)

Posted by gamlerhart in Media Zap Oh Snap on November 9, 2008

In the world of True Blood (IMDb, Wikipedia) Japanese scientist have developed a artificial replacement blood for the vampires. Because vampires no longer need to feed on human, they have the equals right by law. However human socity struggles to accept vampires and not all vampires are willing to drink synthetic blood. So vampires are [...]

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IntelliJ Idea 8.0 released

Posted by gamlerhart in java on November 8, 2008

The new version of the worlds best Java-IDE is released! (download) Version 8.0  brings tons of new plugins and features and supports even more refactorings, languages and frameworks. By the way, Jetbrains is developing a new Idea based IDE for Ruby: RubyMine

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Skins (Season 1-2)

Posted by gamlerhart in Media Zap Oh Snap on November 6, 2008

Skins (IMDb, Wikipedia) is a British teen dramedy television-series. It revolves around a group of young teenager and their lives, troubles and friendship. The stereotypical looser Sid, egoistic and manipulative Tony, the Muslim Anwar, the responsible-acting Jal, drug-abusing Chris, fancy Michelle, gay Maxxie, street-smart Effy, stalker Sketch and  anorexic, suicidal Cassie whoss according to herself [...]

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PDC and other Microsoft Related Stuff

Posted by gamlerhart in .NET, channel 9 on November 3, 2008

A little summary what I found interesting: C# 4.0 adds dynamic typing to the language. The type ‘dynamic’ represent a dynamically typed object. All method-calls are dispatched at runtime and return again a dynamic type. If you assign dynamic-typed objects to static-typed objects it will convert that at runtime. The well-known DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) [...]

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