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Sorting your C# objects with LINQ

Last modified: 09/01/2012

Jan 09

adminC# LINQ No Comments

Suppose you create a Box class with some properties.

class Box
{
public string Name
{ get; set; }
public string Color
{ get; set; }
public string Label
{ get; set; }
public DateTime CreatedAt
{ get; set; }
public override string ToString()
{
return string.Format("[Name: {0}; Color: {1}; Label: {2}; CreatedAt: {3}]",
Name, Color, Label, CreatedAt);
}
}

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Downsample your images in batch with ImageMagick

Last modified: 29/12/2011

Dec 29

adminLinux, Photography, Webdesign No Comments

Have you ever send some pictures to your friends by email or posted them somewhere on the web? I guess you did!

If these images are of high resolution they will take a lot of bandwidth.
So normally it’s preferable to first downsample those images.

ImageMagick is a very handy commandline tool to do the trick.

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C# value type, reference type, pass by value, pass by reference

Last modified: 04/08/2011

Aug 04

adminC# No Comments

I experienced that the terms value type, reference type, pass by value, pass by reference are sometimes confusing for the beginning C# programmer (I include myself to this category).
Therefore I will try to explain this as clearly as possible with some small examples.
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Learning to drum

Last modified: 26/07/2011

Jun 28

adminMusic drumming No Comments

Intro

It has been a while that I posted on my blog but my motto is “less is more” and in between I moved this site to another host.

500 MB disk space, 2 GB data traffic and 5 MySQL databases for 0,99 euro/month!

Drumming is fun

For all of you who are eager to learn, the Internet is like a candy shop. Not only for programmers but also for music lovers and drummers.

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Uptranslate and context translate with OmniMark

Last modified: 26/01/2012

May 08

adminOmniMark pattern matching, XML No Comments

This post will explain some of the unique conversion features of OmniMark, which is uptranslate and context translate (See the conversion scheme to have an overview of the different types of conversion).

An uptranslate makes it possible to create XML (or SGML) starting from structured data. And this structured data doesn’t have to be XML. While creating this XML it is sent to the parser.

A context translate goes even a step further, it’s a combination of an uptranslate followed by a downtranslate.

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Video tutorials learning Joomla

Last modified: 13/02/2011

Jan 07

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I was searching the Internet to find some free tutorials about Joomla.

Joomla is a content management system to build websites.

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Unicode is not UTF-8

Last modified: 07/11/2010

Nov 07

adminUncategorized Unicode, XML No Comments

Sometimes I experience that Unicode and UTF-8 are mentioned as if it is the same thing. Although there is a relationship they are not the same.

This post explains shortly this relationship and gives you some references if you are interested in this material (and every programmer should!).

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Solving the streaming paradigm with OmniMark referents

Last modified: 14/10/2010

Oct 09

adminOmniMark referents, XML 2 Comments

Unlike XSLT processors, OmniMark uses a streaming model to process XML/SGML.

A streaming model has advantages but it also has disadvantages. The XML flows from top to bottom. You can’t randomly access the XML tree in memory.

So how can you process an XML node in the beginning of a document if it depends on a node that hasn’t streamed yet or maybe never will come?

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Passed LPIC-1 exam 101

Last modified: 14/10/2010

Sep 24

adminLinux LPIC No Comments

Today I passed for my LPIC-1 exam 101!

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Discarding content with the OmniMark suppress operator

Last modified: 14/10/2010

Sep 07

adminOmniMark XML No Comments

Until now I only demonstrated examples where XML content is processed without suppressing the content.

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