To all those .NET and C# developers that follow me, I’d greatly appreciate your help answering this question: C# — Inferring Types When Using Generic Interfaces in a Factory — Stack Overflow.
Update: An answer has been accepted. Checkout stackoverflow for more.
This is an excellent article from the makers of Tower[ref]Tower is an excellent app for managing git repositories; a bit pricey, but there is a 30-day free trial. Check it out.[/ref]. It’s written assuming you’re using git, but there are a lot of great points if you’re using any source code management solution:
Be sure to read the original article to see an explanation of each point.
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I was asked a really good question today (and I had to Google for the answer): what are public, private, and protected keywords called in C# (or other programming language)? Continue reading…
So is the life of a programmer:
How am I supposed to handle that?
In my last Git, Capistrano, SSH, and WordPress tutorial, I showed you how to setup your WordPress theme to be easily deployable. Now, I’ve simplified the process even more by eliminating a large amount of duplicate code. Continue reading…
I’ve been working with Spree over the past few weeks for my senior project. So far, I’ve really enjoyed working with it. For being a below-1.0 software, it is very stable, and very full-featured. Even better, it’s very easy to create extensions and integrate them into the e-commerce framework. However, I was running into a permissions issue with an extended controller method. Continue reading…
Using a “float” in a web design is fairly common these days; it is used to float images for wrapping text, as well as being one of the easier, standard-compliant methods to achieve columns. For example, if you want to have a content column, with a sidebar column floating to the right, you would probably have something similar to this (example after the jump):
At Ferris State University, the network implements a system called Cisco Clean Access (CCA). This is a system designed to keep all Windows-based computers up-to-date, secure, and authorized to use the network. On the Windows-side of things, it works decently. All that is truly required is the installation of Clean Access Manager, Norton Antivirus, and setting up your Windows Update settings to point to FSU’s Windows Update Server.
This is totally different if you use a Mac (or Linux, or any other OS). While there is technically a Mac client for CCA, it does not work as well as the Windows-based client. Luckily, there is still a backup plan for other operating systems: CCA will redirect you to a web-based login page, you fill in your user credentials, and bam! you’re on the network. Only a few caveats:
To get around most of these issues, I came up with a script to automatically login with my iMac. Essentially, it’s just a shell/bash script that is executed by launchd (you could use Cron on *NIX) every 5 minutes.
Update: This tutorial has been updated! Several bugs have been fixed, please be sure to read all of the updates (especially if you’ve referenced this tutorial before).
Also, there is now a gem to help with the deployment script. Please visit the new tutorial after reading this one for more information.
I’m not going to lie: lately I’ve been on quite the WordPress-kick. I love being able to create a design, cut it up into HTML-ready chunks, and then use a standard WordPress template to get it into production and on the web ASAP! Generally, my workflow looks like this:
An extension method to remove all but digits from a phone number. This should be useful for sanitizing input to put into your database.
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace CustomStringMethods
{
public static class PhoneNumber
{
#region Class Methods
public static string StripAllButDigits(this string s)
{
return (s == null) ? string.Empty : Regex.Replace(s, @"\D", string.Empty);
}
#endregion
}
}Obviously this can be used for more than just phone numbers.
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