Using PowerShell

I still keep using Unix tools underneath my GNU Emacs on windows, tools, like grep, sort, find. But, they need a configuration, and on Windows, they face specific problems :) On SO, there is a nice list of PoSh cmdlets that are an excellent replacement for my typical tasks.

The next JavaScript issue

This site becomes my diary of JavaScript problems that I fall into, or am aware of. The newest one is the infinity. In other words what is a result of:

parseInt(1 / 0, 19)

And why it is 18.

What tool use to write T4 templates

Each time, I work for a different company, I use a different tool, so far I believe the best is tangible t4, without modeling tools.

WinDbg under .net 4+

I had a problem in loading mscorwks.dll under WinDbg, I found that in framework 4+, I should use command:

.loadby sos clr

Instead of GNU Emacs in Windows

Recently I've been using Sublime, mainly because of it's text coding support - I believe better then GNU Emacs in Windows environment. And for sure match better then Notepad++. Key points are: TextMate format support - finally, and python plug-in system, so configuration and plug-in creation is much better then in VisualStudio, but compared to GNU Emacs, it's not as good.

MVC PartialViews, Templates and JavaScript issue

In other words, a common problem is to place just one call to a libriary, or a method. Here is a nice solution.

Vacuous truth

Recently in my dev team there was a problem with LINQ operators on empty collections. As I found out programmers generally are not aware of vacuous truth. Basic math, but still many coders were not exposed to this kind of problem, ech...