To start with we've mapped the Id column, and told Fluent NHibernate that it's actually an identifier. The x in this example is an instance of Employee that Fluent NHibernate uses to retrieve the property details from, so all you're really doing here is telling it which property you want your Id to be. Fluent NHibernate will see that your Id property has a type of int, and it'll automatically decide that it should be mapped as an auto-incrementing identity in the database - handy!

Remarks

The LambdaExpression type represents a lambda expression in the form of an expression tree. The Expression type, which derives from LambdaExpression and captures the type of the lambda expression more explicitly, can also be used to represent a lambda expression. At runtime, an expression tree node that represents a lambda expression is always of type Expression.

The value of the NodeType property of a LambdaExpression is Lambda.

Use the Lambda factory methods to create a LambdaExpression object.

Remarks

The LambdaExpression type represents a lambda expression in the form of an expression tree. The Expression type, which derives from LambdaExpression and captures the type of the lambda expression more explicitly, can also be used to represent a lambda expression. At runtime, an expression tree node that represents a lambda expression is always of type Expression.

The value of the NodeType property of a LambdaExpression is Lambda.

Use the Lambda factory methods to create a LambdaExpression object.

// conventional function, predefined
var widgets300GramsOrLess = Array.FindAll(widgets, Weighs300GramsOrLess); 

// delegate
var widgets300GramsOrLess = 
  Array.FindAll(widgets, delegate(Widget widget) { return widget.WeightInGrams <= 300; });  

// lambda
var widgets300GramsOrLess = 
  Array.FindAll(widgets, widget => widget.WeightInGrams <= 300); 

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1. Look in the asp folder for .tmLanguage files. There will be a fileTypes key. Add aspx as a value.
2. Don't know of a way by default, cmd shift p then "syn html" will let you set it manually

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There is not a native way to do it, but you can achieve it with a macro. The details are described here in full: http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/32

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If you don't have a web server with PHP installed at hand, you can look at an online example.

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The empty space next to the SSD is very un-Apple. It's not like them to leave big air gaps in their newest, sleekest designs.

Our first thought was that a standard 2.5" laptop drive might fit in this space, and it almost looks like this little nook was designed with that in mind.
Our 9.5mm Crucial SSD didn't allow the bottom cover to be closed, but just by a smidge. We'll see if a 7 mm or 5 mm super-slim hard drive could be incorporated into the space.

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This talk will outline some of the foundations of domain-driven design

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Note: Whether message alerts are on or off is controlled in Outlook. However, to change the sound played for message alerts, you must close Outlook and use Control Panel in Windows.

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14. Web Filters
14.2. ImageMap

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Technical debt is one of those crucially important concepts that can alter the course of an entire company if left unchecked, but it can be incredibly difficult to clearly convey that to non-technical stakeholders. 

Your negative notions about what debt is might be what a “business guy” considers productive leverage. You can just pay that debt back after the new feature makes us all rich, right? I wonder if that has ever happened? 

Next time, tell them it’s like ketchup.

Um... Interesting to link to Spolsky here. That's one of my favorites from him. It's great.

But it's worth mentioning that he's arguing for you to consider never cleaning the ketchup, and that's the most important lesson Joel wanted you to get from that article, imo. Refactor, don't rewrite.

Here's a snippet from Joel (talking about Netscape's rewrite to start, which is why Ward included it):

Before Borland's new spreadsheet for Windows shipped, Philippe Kahn, the colorful founder of Borland, was quoted a lot in the press bragging about how Quattro Pro would be much better than Microsoft Excel, because it was written from scratch. All new source code! As if source code rusted.

The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they've been fixed. There's nothing wrong with it. It doesn't acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive. Au contraire, baby!

(Emphasis mine. "As if source code rusted" is one of my mantras.)

Ketchup's entirely the wrong metaphor. You can't slowly replace ketchup dollop by dollop and come out with something that performs an order of magnitude better (we could stretch and talk about petrification, but I think the metaphor collapses at some point).

Ward's point is well taken. Don't build cruft on top of cruft thinking you'll clean it out later. But Spolsky's point, where you can assume at least competent code, is that you want to keep complex code because it works.

The real skill, and this is where a nontechnical lead is all but worthless, is being able to tell the cruft from the craft, and what needs refactoring NOW versus what can wait until later.

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Rich: So far as the third world goes, there’s an enormous amount of illegal software use. Your project and ones like it also fill a role there. Can you talk a bit about that?

Marc [ProjectLibre lead, I think]: I really feel passionately about this because it is a moral dilemma, around the world, whether you manage your project on a spreadsheet or whether you pay $1000 a copy for Microsoft Project or other proprietary vendors.

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Dear Tom,

how can I describe columns of a REF CURSOR? (analog of dbms_sql.DESCRIBE_COLUMNS).

Thanks

and we said...
you cannot, not until 11g Release 1 anyway, in plsql.

SET SERVEROUTPUT ON; -- Tom forgets to remind us about this
declare
        l_rcursor sys_refcursor;
        l_colCnt number;
        l_descTbl dbms_sql.desc_tab;
begin
        open l_rcursor for select * from all_users;

        dbms_sql.describe_columns
        ( c       => dbms_sql.to_cursor_number(l_rcursor),
          col_cnt => l_colCnt,
          desc_t  => l_descTbl );

        for i in 1 .. l_colCnt
        loop
                dbms_output.put_line( l_descTbl(i).col_name );
        end loop;
end;
/

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Source Code Pro


A set of monospaced OpenType fonts designed for coding environments

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What needs to happen is to have a many to many relationship between songs and albums. Sites like FreeDB and CDDB need to have a concept of what's a verbatim repeat (like the example above) and what's not (like the pretty decent live version of Ruby Tuesday on Flashpoint). Then we can have an mp3 player that's worth its salt. Search for everything on Rolling Stones, the original version of Ruby Tuesday's there. Search for everything in Between the Buttons, you'll get that same entry. Same for The London Years. Not the same, obviously, for Flashpoint. And you'll get all your settings and properties for that entry in all [of the first] three listings.

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Over the weekend, some iPhone 5 users complained to Glenn Fleishman, a writer for TidBITS, an Apple news and troubleshooting site, about their phones’ mysteriously using Internet data over the cellular network for no clear reason.

Verizon Wireless has acknowledged the problem, and says it has to do with the phone’s use of cellular data even when it is connected to Wi-Fi. A solution is being issued to Verizon customers, and they will not be charged for the erroneous data use, the company said.

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How to Disable [Mouse] Acceleration [in OS X]

However, if you set it to -1 by typing

defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1

MacRumors has learned that at least one Fortune 500 company is requesting that its employees not upgrade to iOS 6 over a bug with Microsoft Exchange meeting invitations. The issue has also been reported on Apple's support discussion boards.

The issue appears when users decline a meeting invitation from an iOS 6 device. Instead of simply sending a notification to the meeting organizer that the user will not attend, iOS 6 is sending meeting cancellation notices to the entire distribution list, effectively canceling the invitation for all attendees.

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"According to three people familiar with the sequence of events, several senior engineers on Mansfield's team vociferously complained to Cook about reporting to his replacement, Dan Riccio, who they felt was unprepared for the magnitude of the role," authors Brad Stone, Adam Satariano and Peter Burrows wrote. "In response, Cook approached Mansfield and offered him an exorbitant package of cash and stock worth around $2 million a month to stay on at Apple as an adviser and help manage the hardware engineering team."

When getting data from SimpleDB, we need to remember four things:

• Amazon SimpleDB does not have relationships, so a query can only access one domain, and can not join.
• All attribute value returns have the type string.
• In SimpleDB, there is no requirement for each row to have the same set of attributes. So when you get an item that does not have value for an attribute, you might think that in the result item, that attribute will have a blank value or null, but that is wrong. The result item will not have that attribute in the set of attributes and we cannot get that value.
• When you use "get data by query", the column ID cannot be used to filter, sort... because the ID column is a unique column that refers to the name of the item and it does not exist in the attribute of the item.

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As reported in the game notes last night, the Redskins have not scored to come from behind to win in the last minute of play since Oct. 3, 1999. I did not have time to check the 31 other NFL teams but it is pretty safe to say that almost all of them have managed a last-minute comeback win at some point in the last 13 years.

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