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Nuget Packages You Should Know About

In order to build software quickly we stand on the shoulder of giants. The .NET ecosystem has many great software packages that can be leveraged to speed up your development cycle. Here is a list of packages available via NuGet that will land you in the pit of success if

mongodb

MongoDB Utilities

MongoDB comes with several very useful utilities for managing data. You can restore data from a MongoDB dump with the following command: mongorestore dump You can import data from a csv file with the following command: mongoimport --type csv --headerline weather_data.csv -d weather -c data

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Installing MongoDB on Mac OS X

Here is a quick guide for installing MongoDb for developers. Download file curl http://downloads.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.7.tgz > mongodb.tgz Extract file tar -zxvf mongodb.tgz Move files to usr/local folder mv mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.7/ /usr/local Open your .bashrc file cd

javascript

Understanding Strict Mode in JavaScript

Strict mode is enabled in a JavaScript program by adding a special string constant at the beginning of the program: "use strict"; Also, you can enable strict mode for a function by placing the string constant at the beginning of the function definition. function dodge() { "use strict&

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It's Alive!!! Building Objects in JavaScript

It's overwhelming the number of ways you can construct objects in JavaScript. In this article I will tackle the various ways to build objects (including inheritance). The basic techniques for creating objects are: 1. Simple Objects 2. Constructors 3. Simple Inheritance 4. Inheritance method used by CoffeeScript 5.

nodejs

Grunt Ground Zero

javascript

FizzBuzz in JavaScript using Generators

FizzBuzz A common programming test for job candidates is FizzBuzz. I will show how to solve the FizzBuzz problem using generators in JavaScript. There are some variations on this test but the basics are to print out a sequence of numbers with the following restrictions: * if the number is divisble

tips and tricks

Simple Http Server

If you are lucky enough to have a mac then you can start up an http server in terminal with the following command. $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer If you want to start the http server on a particular port you can add it to the end of the command. $ python -m

javascript

Bower - Up and Running

How do you grab JavaScript files you need for a project? In the past I navigated to http://jquery.com and downloaded the latest minified and unminified version of jQuery. What if I need underscore? I would navigate to http://underscorejs.org and grab the latest version of underscore. Are

design

Design Principles - Font Theory

I am watching the Design course provided by Code School. Here are my notes from watching the course. Whenever designing something new you need to take into account 3 things: 1. Audience. Age? Race? Gender? Culture? 2. Tone. Casual? Formal? Scary? 3. Purpose. Informational? Conversions? Font Theory The designer first

machine learning

Bias and Variance - Debugging Learning Algorithms

Update: I completed the course on 12/29/2013.) I have been taking the Machine Learning class on Coursera taught by Andrew Ng. This class is amazing! Thank you Patrick for telling me about this course. I'm adding Machine Learning to the list of things that should be

.net

NHibernate Pro Tips

I have used NHibernate quite extensively in the past and here is a quick cumulation of tips to put you on the happy path with NHibernate. Managing the NHibernate Session in MVC Ayende has several great blog posts about managing the NHibernate session [http://ayende.com/blog/4805/refactoring-toward-frictionless-odorless-code-limiting-session-scope] in

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"Re" Designing KyleNunery.com

My current website design is about 4 years old, so I thought it would be a good time to update the site to a more modern feel to keep my designer chops sharp. The site is not very colorful as it was done in a "clean" grunge design.

async

Async Tips for .NET

Recently I made a free Windows 8 Application, Pixel Hero [http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/pixel-hero/8742b5e0-0d30-4cb1-90fc-0a9010fb6023] , and as part of this process I needed to use file and image APIS throughout the app. These APIS are modern C# 4.5 APIs so they expose Async methods throughout.

octave

Octave Basics

Octave [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/] is a great language for prototyping machine learning algorithms. It is recommended to use Octave to prove out your algorithms and then implementing your machine learning algorithm in C++ or Java. Other common languages for prototyping machine learning algorithms are Matlab, R, Python,

nodejs

Node Modules Used by Ghost

Ghost is the first major open source product written to run on NodeJS (anyone disagree?). If you haven't heard already, Ghost is a blogging tool that strips away the complexities of WordPress. It has the backing of two developers that were heavily involved with WordPress. Ghost started out

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Surfing With Ghost on Digital Ocean

Getting Started with Ghost on Digital Ocean I was able to get my Ghost blog up and running in under 10 minutes using a fantastic service provided by Digital Ocean [https://www.digitalocean.com/] called Droplets. There is a very detailed guide [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-the-digitalocean-ghost-application] provided

Switching to Ghost

I have been frustrated with every blogging platform that I have used to date for various reasons. I want to be able to author posts in markdown from any web browser, adjust the theme without jumping through any hoops, and get good analytics of how many people are viewing my

mysql

Accessing MySQL in Node

Sequelize [http://sequelizejs.com/] is my current node package that I use to access MySQL. I particularly like this package because is also has PostgreSQL and SQLite support. You can install this package in one of two ways for the mysql dialect: // 1. npm install sequelize npm install mysql@~2.

nodejs

Reloading Node Apps Quickly During Development - Supervisor

When dealing with node apps you will often need to make small changes and then test out these small changes. When first starting out you will likely kill your running node process and restart your node process. This will quickly become tedious. A good solution for live reloading after making

ghost

All Blogging Platforms are Flawed in Major Ways... Enter Ghost

I have personally tried almost all of the popular blogging platforms out there. Polyglot Programmer has been hosted on WordPress.com, self hosted on WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous, and Blogger. The only platform that supports Markdown 100% is Tumblr. Tumblr doesn't have any good analytics. Tumblr lacks the ability

css

Font Size with REM and Calc Function

I am on a project where the lowest targeted browser is IE9. Hallelujah! You can embrace the greatness that is CSS when you don't have to be held back by older browser CSS limitations. Font Size with REM The first gem I have run across in my latest

.net

Viewing Files in the GAC

The GAC can be found at C:\windows\assembly. There is a custom shell extension enabled that prevents you seeing the GAC dlls as you would normally see the file system in Windows Explorer. There are several ways to see the dlls in the GAC. Copy the DLLs to Another

backbone

Knockout JS Samples Converted to Backbone JS

Introductory Examples Here are several Knockout JS examples converted to Backbone JS. I am primarily doing this as a learning experience. Please provide feedback. I left some console.log statements in the backbone examples so the example may not work if you aren’t using a browser that has native

github

Github is a Ripoff

Github charges you for private repos. It doesn't matter the size of the repo or usage of the repo… just that you have a dang repo. Their price structure is the following: $7/month 5 private repos$12/month 10 private repos$22/month 20 private reposThe pricing