Friday links 173

  1. How to receive feedback
  2. Brownout (electricity) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  3. How to Receive Great Testimonials
  4. Performance Tools | CSS-Tricks
  5. Metro UI CSS – The front-end framework for developing projects on the web in Windows Metro Style
  6. 17 Things To Expect When You Date A Girl Who’s Used To Being On Her Own | Idealist Revolution
  7. 22 Simple And Creative Ways to Earn Money
  8. 5 Real Ways to Actually Make Money Online
  9. Microdata – Dive Into HTML5
  10. Top 10 Tips To Crack An Interview – TopTalent.in

Friday links 172

  1. Decoupling of Authorization in Microservices architecture – Damir Dobric Posts – developers.de
  2. Seven Habits of Highly Effective Jenkins Users (2014 edition!)
  3. NuGet Package Explorer – Home
  4. NLog LayoutRenderer for assembly version – CodeProject
  5. Time to First Byte, Why It is Important and How You Can Improve Your Time
  6. nikmd23/CourtesyFlush
  7. More HTTP Flushing in ASP.NET MVC | nik codes
  8. The Software Architect | Dave Donaldson
  9. NuBuild Project System extension
  10. Missing link found between brain, immune system; major disease implications — ScienceDaily
  11. reveal.js – The HTML Presentation Framework
  12. Front-End Manorisms – Tips, Tricks, and Tools
  13. SQL Server Monitoring with Powershell and the SQL Server Platform: Analysis and Reporting (Part 3 of 3)
  14. This is where body fat ends up when you lose weight – ScienceAlert
  15. SQL Server Compact/SQLite Toolbox extension
  16. EntityFramework Reverse POCO Code First Generator – Documentation
  17. EntityFramework Reverse POCO Generator extension
  18. zeroturnaround.com » Top 10 Jenkins Must-Have Features/Plugins
  19.  Next Time Someone Mocks Teachers For Making Less Money, Show Them This. | Idealist Revolution
  20. Ready To Launch A Startup? Try This Unpopular Piece Of Advice First | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Javascript patterns

In our days Javascript appears to conquer all . So I have decided to read a book about patterns in Javascript. And I definitely recommend this book: it is good written and full of practical details. It is a must read for anyone to unleash their javascript programming potential.

Friday links 171

  1. Unbelievable…These 23 Mind Blowing Facts Will DESTROY Your Understanding Of Time | Idealist Revolution
  2. How to seem smart in work e-mail without really trying – The Washington Post
  3. 21 Cartoons That Show How Smartphones Are Killing Real Conversations | Idealist Revolution
  4. Why you should not use AngularJs — Medium
  5. Visual Studio Extension
  6. NoSQL Document Database – Embedding RavenDB into an ASP.NET MVC 3 Application
  7. RavenDB – the open source NoSQL database for .NET
  8. Wallaby.js for Visual Studio · Artem Govorov
  9. When everything you know is wrong, part one | Fabulous adventures in coding 
  10. RavenDB’s Querying Streaming: Unbounded results – Ayende @ Rahien
  11. RavenDB – the open source NoSQL database for .NET
  12. Comments on RavenDB licensing – Ayende @ Rahien
  13. To handle big data, shrink it | MIT News

Friday links 170

  1. 11 Body Language Tricks To Make You Successful In Life
  2. 15 Inspirational Activities To Do Alone During Weekends
  3. 10 Things Almost Everyone Forgets to Consider When Accepting A Job Offer
  4. Some Advice On Becoming a Lead Developer – Simple Programmer
  5. How the language you speak changes your view of the world – Agenda – The World Economic Forum
  6. BBC – Earth – The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole
  7. www.blogger.my.blog(): Fast POCO Class direct from SQL Management Studio
  8. Relation Scaffolding for MVC | Helping Your Productivity
  9. jsgoupil/relation-scaffolding
  10. Picture this: Microsoft Research project can interpret, caption photos – Next at Microsoft
  11. Nadeem Afana’s blog · ASP.NET MVC 5 Internationalization · Date and Time
  12. NameCtrl Control
  13. Nadeem Afana’s blog · ASP.NET MVC 5 Internationalization · Strings Localization on the client-side

    Non (Coding Standards)

     

    What do you say when you see this code?

     
Console.WriteLine(((ThirdEnum)(new Task<string>(() => 
{ 
    return ((FirstEnum)((Func<string>)(() => 
    { 
        return "Hello World"; 
    })).Invoke().Invoke()).Invoke(); 
})).Await().ContinueWith((@string) => 
{ 
    return ((SecondEnum)(@string.ContinueWith((@return) => 
    { 
        return ((FirstEnum)(@return.Result.Invoke() + 3)).Invoke(); 
    }).Result.Invoke())).Invoke(); 
}).GetAwaiter().GetResult().Invoke()));

Console.ReadKey();
 
    namespace ConfusingCode
{
    public static class Things
    {
        public static int Invoke(this string invokedItem)
        {
            lock (Program.key)
            {
                Console.Write(invokedItem.Length == 1 ? invokedItem + (invokedItem == ((SecondEnum)invokedItem.Length - 1).Invoke() ? invokedItem : "") : "");
            }
            return invokedItem.Length > 0 ? 0 : 0;
        }
        public static Task<string> Await(this Task<string> taskToAwait)
        {
            taskToAwait.Start();
            return taskToAwait;
        }
        public static string Invoke(this FirstEnum val)
        {
            return ((Enum)val).Invoke();
        }
        public static string Invoke(this SecondEnum val)
        {
            return ((Enum)val).Invoke();
        }
        public static string Invoke(this ThirdEnum val)
        {
            return ((Enum)val).Invoke();
        }
        public static string Invoke(this Enum @enum)
        {
            return @enum.ToString();
        }
    }
    public enum FirstEnum
    {
        P = 0,
        I = 3,
    }
    public enum SecondEnum
    {
        Z = 0,        
    }
    public enum ThirdEnum
    {
        A = 0
    }
}

    And what should be added to the coding standards in order to not permit this … code ?
    ( Credits to Stefan Petrini for the code )

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    1. quozd/awesome-dotnet
    2. lukebuehler/CShell
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    4. Mobile App Game and Web Testing and Development | Testdroid
    5. View Components in MVC 6 — aspnet 0.0.1 documentation
    6. 20 Things To Do When You’re 30 That Will Make Life Better At 50 | Idealist Revolution
    7. Serilog — simple .NET logging with fully-structured events
    8. Give Your REST APIs some Metadata Swagger! – Wintellect DevCenter
    9. ASP.NET SignalR: Old-fashioned Polling, Just Done Better
    10. ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
    11. Building a Composite ASP.NET MVC Application with Pluggable Areas from External Projects and Assemblies | Long Le’s Blog

    Friday links 168

    1. c# – NLog performance – Stack Overflow
    2. Routing System.Diagnostics.Trace and System.Diagnostics.TraceSource logs through NLog | NLog
    3. Tutorial · NLog/NLog Wiki
    4. CQRS : A Cross Examination Of How It Works – CodeProject
    5. sachabarber/SachaBarber.CQRS.Demo
    6. Tech nostalgia: The top 10 innovations of the 1980s – TechRepublic
    7. 8 Lists To Keep If You Want To Be Successful
    8. Protect ASP.NET Applications Against CSRF Attacks — Visual Studio Magazine
    9. toastr examples
    10. 15 Small Things Parents Should Do To Their Children Every Day To Make Them Feel Loved
    11. Li Chen’s Blog – Sky LINQPad, a minimum viable clone of LINQPad in the cloud
    12. Open Source IDEs in C#
    13. When everything you know is wrong, part one | Fabulous adventures in coding
    14. The Boring Trait Google Looks For in Its Leaders

    IDisposable and Marshal.ReleaseCOMObject and dynamic in C#

     

    If you have worked with COM, you know that for every COM object that you access is not only necessary to null the reference, but also call Marshall.ReleaseCOMObject .

    This is a very error prone task, because you have all try / finally blocks

     
// declare a, ws, w 
try{ 
a=new Application(); 
ws = a.Workbooks; 
w = ws.Add(); 
//code 
}
 catch(...) {
 if( w != null){ 
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(w); 
w = null; 
}
 if(ws !=null){ 
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(ws); 
ws = null; 
} 
if( a!= null) { 
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(a); a= null; 
} 
}

    All of this could be done easy with IDisposable, if

    1. IDisposable calls the Marshal.ReleaseCOMObject

    2. Find a way to call methods / properties on the COM object from the class that implements IDisposable

     

    I have done this and the result is like this:

     
using (dynamic a = new ComDisposable(new Application())) { 
using (dynamic ws = a.Workbooks) { 
using (dynamic w = ws.Add()) { 
using (var shs = w.Sheets) { 
using (var s = shs[1]) { 
//Worksheet a; 
using (var r = a.Range("A1")) { 
r.Value2 = "http://ignatandrei.github.io/ToolsAndUtilities/";; 
using (var f = r.Font) { 
f.Bold = true; 
}
 }
 }
 }
 w.SaveAs(fileName); 
w.Close(); 
} 
}
 a.Quit(); }

     

    Video at https://youtu.be/2qbAcSjL1gU

    NuGet package at https://www.nuget.org/packages/ReleaseComObjectDisposable/

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