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The goal of this blog post is to give you a brief introduction to Meteor which is a framework for building Single Page Apps. In this blog entry, I provide a walkthrough of building a simple Movie database app.
What is special about Meteor? Meteor has two jaw-dropping features:
Live HTML – If you make…
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A few days ago, I gave a talk on building Single Page Apps on the Microsoft Stack. In that talk, I recommended that people use Knockout, Sammy, and RequireJS to build their presentation layer and use the ASP.NET Web API to expose data from their server.
After I gave the talk, several people contacted…
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Hello,
First time posting here, but an avid reader.
I am experiancing slow query times on my database (all tested locally thus far) and not sure how to go about it. The database itself has 44 tables and some of them tables have over 1 Million records (mainly the movies, actresses and actors tables)…
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This blog post will show you step by step to refactoring some code to be more readable (at least what I think). Patrik Löwnedahl gave me some of the ideas when we where talking about making code much cleaner. The following is an simple application that will have a list of movies (Normal and Transfer)…
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The Star Wars film franchise has had an enormous impact on the world of film, gaming, and special effects. Check out this interesting infographic to see how Star Wars has impacted the world.
Created by Michelle Devereau, the “How Star Wars Changed the World” infographic is a massive…
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When we hear the word POP, we normally think of a soft drink, or a soda, while for others, it might be their favourite kind of music. In my case, it's the sound my knee makes when I bend down. Within Oracle though, when we talk about POP, we are referring to the Partner Ordering Portal.
The Partner…
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Following the Egregious pop culture perversion of programming, what is the most outlandishly insane technobabble you have ever heard, either in fiction or real life?
Extra points to those unfortunates whose real life stories beat Hollywood.
Note: feel free to sketch out what would be necessary for…
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You know the type:
"It's a Unix system. I know this" -- in Jurassic park where a computer-genius girl sees a computer and quickly takes over like a 3-D video game, flying through the file system to shut down the park. [video link to the scene]
So what's your favorite movie gaff that shows Hollywood…
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When you are writing code or naming products, which sources of cultural references are you most likely to draw from? Which reference sources do you think are more likely to be universally understood?
For example when findbugs sees that you've implemented equals() without overriding hashCode() it…
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I am about enjoy a two week break in Spain where I expect to have lots of time for relaxing and reading.
I normally read a lot of non-fiction so I'm looking for novel suggestions.
If there is another Cryptonomicon out there I'd love to hear about it!
UPDATE: In the end I took four books including…
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