SpellCoder

There is a new version of spellcoder currently running on spellcoder.org based on BlogEngine.net. This site is no longer updated because simply it's impossible to upgrade the Community Server based software and we got a lot of spam comments. So yeah,...

I used to work with flash all the times, in fact we used it in almost every project through college. You can do amazing things with flash very easily and honestly I love action script. Whenever you work with flash you will find yourself need to make...

Hey, Its been a long time :) i was pretty busy in some work :( along with preparing to come back to Egypt for a small vacation isA .Anyway, you all know  facebox and Lightbox. I wanted to allow the user to print the content of the facebox and lightbox...

spellcoder.com will be moving to Oxite, so we can actually have a source code to the system to do any modification we need. Community Server just won't do it anymore since this is pretty much a casual community....

MIX conference is my favorite conference. It is always full of surprises, and it is not restricted to Microsoft technologies. It has been a habit for me to grab the links to MIX videos since MIX 07, and I'm keeping this habit for this year too :).Here...

Download it here. I can’t wait to see what’s new here. I’ve been tearing my hair own trying to implement Schematron on M....

This time from a Microsoft Envagelist. “Seeing that SOA has been one of the most visible and widely talked about technology initiatives of the past decade, the fact that it has been pronounced “dead” would seem to require an autopsy to determine the...

http://www.codethinked.com/post/2008/02/Using-Extension-Methods-in-net-20.aspx   This is a common trick that unfortunately has tricked into open source libraries. Don’t do it. It’s bad because this trick will generate warnings in C# ASP.Net web...

“Once thought to be the savior of IT, SOA instead turned into a great failed experiment—at least for most organizations. SOA was supposed to reduce costs and increase agility on a massive scale. Except in rare situations, SOA has failed to deliver its...

Facebook to outlook First, Facebook as a very successful social networking website already contains a lot of information that we need and that will save us a lot of work not only to get this information but to use it as well. Second, as...

Since we are getting MGraph out of Mg, why not use IronScheme as an output since it is basically an AST and already based on DLR and it can be quite simple to have it for general purpose DSL machine construction kit. The other way is through XAML construction...

  Now this is just branding gone wild. Q: What is Azure? A: Well it’s a new cloud based Windows operating system, Windows Azure and a set of web services called Azure Services. Q: So what are Azure Services? A: They are Live Services, .Net...

“So when I look at M's elements, I can only conclude that it too has the same aspects as the well known tooling and building blocks for parsers, grammars and the like available to everyone today: it's complex. With 'complex' I mean: you need proper knowledge...

A problem that we face everyday is creating CRUD interfaced for our databases. Creating a CRUD interface is always a boring and tedious job. Even if you want to initialize your data, you may break something by mistake if you use SQL Server Management...

For the past 5 years agile development mantra have been drilled into programmers heads and great, now the meme says “no, it’s not working” (read: Decline and Fall of Agile Development) Do you know what this means? A new round of books written why...

I geuss you heared about JQuery, Which is an amazing JavaScript library that makes it easy to create wonderful web effects in just a few lines of code. As the website says: “jQuery is a JavaScript library that takes this motto to heart: Writing JavaScript...

Check out this excellent Windows Azure overview by Dare.   The infrastructure looks nice and it makes available a lot of stuff that needed to be configured by hand. But still, the biggest work in making RESTful oriented application in .NET (cloud...

I am excited about two things in Microsoft PDC 2008, no it’s not Windows Azure or Windows 7. The cloud infrastructure is nice but cloud is just an infrastructure architecture problem – and frankly I trust Amazon to get this right than Microsoft. ...

Microsoft is killing LINQ To SQL and apparently WF 4.0 will not be compatible with WF 1.0. Here’s a rule of thumb of using Microsoft technologies. Trust the language guys and run time guys,  be wary of everybody else especially the bloody data...

Download this video of Don Box and Chris Anderson running through M language (mp4) They discussed the high level concepts behind M. This is a must watch to get a traction in understanding the M language. ...

So you have your OSLO SDK installed and your Intellipad running smoothing on your screen.  Well, let’s get busy. Let’s remember a simple factoid: module is the basic organization structure in M language. The following code is the smallest unit...

Finally there is a way on how to use tuple as it ought to be. In C# 4.0, you can do the following dynamic GetTuple() { return new { FirstName : “John”, LastName : “Adams” }; } dynamic myTuple = GetTuple(); Console.WriteLine (myTuple.FirstName);...

One word, wow.   class C { public dynamic myField; public dynamic MyProp { get; set; } public dynamic MyMethod(dynamic d) { return d.Foo(); } public delegate dynamic MyDelegate(dynamic d); }  ...

Join Mdsls group for in depth discussion about Microsoft M language (as part of Oslo technology), including mgrammar, mschema and mgraph. We'll talk smack about Intellipad there as well. http://groups.google.com/group/MDSLs/ M Language team blog is...

The Oslo technology is revolutionary. There I said it. I will dedicate the next four weeks dissecting the capabilities of the M language and the MGrammar languge for DSL buildling. I have been reading through the early language specification furiously...