http://www.yanachik.org Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:28:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After writing Unit tests lately I've been trying to test my business logic (which is all done in the Entity Manager) without actually submitting data to the database.  I'll create my Items and Customers and do an InsertOnSubmit to get them into the Entity Manager context, but never call SubmitChanges(). This ... http://www.yanachik.org/2008/11/10/linq-to-sql-entity-data-context-insertonsubmit-vs-attach/ With all of the goodies included with Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008, the one thing that Microsoft did not do right is Javascript formatting.  First of all, it's really slow.  Second of all, it doesn't seem to be consistent with it's indenting. For me, I'd like to do my ... http://www.yanachik.org/2008/10/31/visual-studio-2008-service-pack-1-javascript-formatting-drives-me-nuts/ In Yahoo YUI 2.5.2 the Yahoo DataTable editorSave Event'sData Cell Editor has changed.  To get to the data record for the editor it is no-longer oArgs.editor.record, but rather oArgs.editor.getRecord(); DataTable.subscribe("editorSaveEvent", EditorChanged); function EditorChanged(oArgs) { var record = oArgs.editor.getRecord(); } http://www.yanachik.org/2008/10/10/yahoo-datatable-editorsaveevent-change-from-yui-252-to-260/ Rails 2.0.2 now defaults your app's database to SQLite3 (I believe because OSX comes pre-shipped with it).  In order to generate a rails application and having it setup to MySQL is pretty easy. In your when you create your app add (-d mysql) in the rails command:  rails -d mysql myapp http://www.yanachik.org/2008/08/19/how-to-preconfigure-your-ruby-on-rails-application-for-mysql/ http://www.yanachik.org/2008/03/04/bill-gates-last-day-at-microsoft/ There were a series of announcements and reviews that came out lately, here's a sample: Google Gears has gone mobile - what a great idea.  When your mobile device can't get a signal (such as on an airplane) but you need to do some work, you can now access your mobile ... http://www.yanachik.org/2008/03/04/a-series-of-short-reviews/ Flotzam, a life streaming screensaver based all on Microsoft's new Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) put out a contest for redesigned UI.  Here's a screencast of the winner. Flotzam Design Contest Winner http://www.yanachik.org/2008/03/02/windows-presentation-foundation-flotzam-has-a-new-ui/ Here are feeds to track the action going on at Sharepoint Conference 2008: Blogstream (via Technorati): http://feeds.technorati.com/search/SPC2008?authority=a4&language=en Photostream (via Flickr): http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=SPC2008&lang=en-us&format=atom Videostream (via MSN Soapbox): http://soapbox.msn.com/rss.aspx?searchTerm=SPC2008 You can also monitor:  http://mysharepointcommunity.com/SPC2008 http://www.yanachik.org/2008/03/02/sharepoint-conference-2008-buzzstream/ ReadWriteWeb is trying to predict what app will be the big hit at SXSW, and they seem to have concluded that whatever it is, it will involve social networking.  RWW seem impressed with SocialThing, and predict that if they get their iPhone interface working by SXSW then thy've got a ... http://www.yanachik.org/2008/03/02/is-socialthingcom-the-big-hit-out-of-sxsw/ I've place a badge on my home page that displays my two latest Pownce posts, and dedicated an entire page Pownce Feeds that lists my 30 most recent Pownce posts.  Things that ramble off my brain that don't deserve a full blog post will get Pownced. http://www.yanachik.org/2008/02/28/check-out-my-pownce-feed/