In this series we will lift the bonnet (most Commonwealth countries will understand) or hood (US/Canada) of the ALM Treasure Map Solution to (a) perform a code review, (b) review Windows 8 application programming concepts and (c) document the journey to ensure transparency for the team. IMPORTANT We...

Thanks to Robert who has to endure three long coding and debugging days next to me at the pre-TR events, the Win8-Kbd-Cheat Sheet has gone through a few revisions. It is intended for those who need the common navigation keyboard shortcuts: Any ideas on how it can be improved? PS : You can download Win8...

The Quick Response Sample – TFS Branch Scenarios sample solution is based on the Managed Extensions Framework (MEF). To understand MEF and be in a better position to review the code base, I decided to do a quick tour and build a simple calculator using MEF (we started calculator samples in the 90’s,...

Some time has passed since our last Cave Dwelling adventure as I had to dig myself out of the Windows 8 and Getting Started with XAML adventures. At this stage I feel like I just took a gulp of fresh air, only to be dragged under by the next wave of technology … but that’s half the fun of IT and I believe...

As part of the ALM Ranger Hands-on lab and associated environment setup, we have started using PowerShell as our setup automation framework. PowerShell consists of a CMD-like command-line shell and a scripting language, which seamlessly integrates with environments such as COM, .NET and WMI. In this...

We recently completed the internal technical event, during which the ALM Rangers presented no less than 25 technical sessions. Most went very well, while some crashed and burnt … giving us an opportunity to re-view the candid feedback and evaluations, cross-checking with our personal observations and...

Continued from Notes #3 – C# … re-visiting some interesting features , a quick de-tour through Notes #4 – Robert MacLean and co. poster and other gems and a switch to Notes #5 – C# and Asynchronous Programming . The more I dust-off my memory and the more I dig further into .NET/C# features, the more...

Continued from Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #3 – C# … re-visiting some interesting features and a quick de-tour through Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #4 – Robert MacLean and co. poster and other gems we switch context to asynchronous programming. Code used in this post can be downloaded from: Supporting...

Continued from Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #2 – Windows Azure , we do a brief context switch from clouds to Visual Studio C#. Before I delve into asynchronous programming in C# 5, I first want to refresh some of the features introduced in previous compilers. The sample code used in this blog post can...

Continued from Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #1 – Cloud Computing , we continue our cloud journey by taking a quick glance at Windows Azure. Interesting URLs http://windows.azure.com (start here) http://status.WindowsAzure.com http://latency.cloudapp.net/llist.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure...

I have decided to re-invest my spare time (spare == few precious idle periods) to try and catch up with the exciting technology advances happening all around us. In this series, which I refer to as Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes, I will summarise the most important information as I dig myself through the...

Last week I was completely disconnected from the digital world and unfortunately a thread fired while I was sitting at the Osoyoos lake staring at this ( picture rig ht): The thread started pondering over Lambda Expressions, which I have not used for months. As you can imagine it drove me crazy, because...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. This is one of the final exam preparation posts and looks at some of the common deadlock avoidance approach algorithms and reviews the associated assignment from this year as an example. If you are not studying at UNISA, you should...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. This is one of the final exam preparation posts and looks at some of the common deadlock avoidance approach algorithms and reviews the associated assignment from this year as an example. If you are not studying at UNISA, you should...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. This is one of the final exam preparation posts and looks at some of the common scheduling algorithms and reviews the associated assignment from this year as an example. If you are not studying at UNISA, you should probably...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. This is one of the final exam preparation posts and looks at some of the common scheduling algorithms and reviews the associated assignment from this year as an example. If you are not studying at UNISA, you should probably...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. This post is focused on my final preparations for the exam next week and chatter around the Singleton and Monostate patterns I have been having with fellow students. … l oaned from book “ Software Engineers on their way to Pluto ”,...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. This post is one of the summary posts I will be building up over the next couple of months, so if you are following this topic or completing the same course as I this year, you may want to bookmark this post and come back occasionally...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. this post we briefly investigate distributed systems. If you are not studying at UNISA you should probably give this materials summary post a miss :) Last time we looked at security… today conclude by looking at the notes of distributed...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. this post we briefly investigate memory management. If you are not studying at UNISA you should probably give this materials summary post a miss :) Last time we looked at the file system and associated interface… today we peek into...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. If you are not studying at UNISA you should probably give this materials summary post a miss :) Last time we looked at the file system interface… today we teleport ourselves back into the operating system to explore...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. This post is one of the summary posts I will be building up over the next couple of months, so if you are following this topic or completing the same course as I this year, you may want to bookmark this post and come back occasionally...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. If you are not studying at UNISA you should probably give this materials summary post a miss :) Last time we looked at virtual memory … today we get closer to the metal and start investigate the file system interface...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. Continued from UNISA Chatter – Design patterns in C++ Part 6: Widgets … Validation and Regular Expressions using QT . IMPORTANT POINT: It is important to emphasize that the intent of these posts are to share my...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. Continued from UNISA Chatter – Design patterns in C++ Part 6: Widgets … Validation and Regular Expressions using QT . IMPORTANT POINT: It is important to emphasize that the intent of these posts are to share my learning's as I dig through...