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[Tools] New version of UMLet available (9.1)

CSharpener — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:57:00 GMT

A newer version of UMLet is available. UMLet is my "UML as sketch" tool of choice! You can read *about* a very interesting article on the rationale behind UMLet here: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/proceedings/euromicro/2003/1996/00/19960267abs.htm Note, however, that the authors require payment for the full article. UMLet is very capable ... and free, too!

Your Company's Next Senior Software Architect???

CSharpener — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:08:00 GMT

I would *love* to join a new and exciting software development team that has a single-minded focus on delivering high-quality software products to great customers. Perhaps that team is working in your company! Please have a look at my resume (http://weblogs.asp.net/jtobler/articles/48839.aspx) to find out if my skills match your customers' needs! If interested, contact me by email so I can get to work with you as quickly as possible! I currently live in San Diego, CA, but would consider relocating to Las Vegas, NV, or the Miami Ft. Lauderdale area, FL, to join the right company with the right challenge!

[Tools] New version of UMLet available (9.03)

CSharpener — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:54:00 GMT

Get your fresh new copy here: Umlet 9.03.

Time to get busy again!

CSharpener — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:26:00 GMT

Well! I've let this blog sit too long without taking care of it. I'm very busy, these days, on a number of different levels. But lately, I've started doing some work and research on Open Source GIS systems and on SharePoint development, so you should start seeing some posts here again.

New Office 2007 Data Mining Add-ins!

CSharpener — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:32:00 GMT

Here is a cool article on The SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007, some great new business intelligence tools for Excel 2007.

[Tools] New Version of UMLet is out (UMLet 8)!

CSharpener — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:17:00 GMT

UMLet 8 is out! UMLet is a light-weight UML diagramming tool for those who need something for UML as sketch drawing. This is not a heavy duty code-generating MDA tool. UMLet is wonderful for sketching out your ideas without feeling so darned formal! It is one of my favorite architectural sketching tools and I can strongly recommend it.

[.NET][Articles] Single-Sign-On (SSO) for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)

CSharpener — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:47:00 GMT

I recently discovered this very interesting article that covers the basics of configuring and using SSO with Microsoft SharePoint 2007, especially when creating views and forms on external SQL Server databases using Windows authentication. This is a very worthwhile read for SharePoint developers and integrators.

An Introduction to Single-Sign-On (SSO) with Data Views

Enjoy!

[.NET C#] Unified C# 3.0 Specification

CSharpener — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:34:00 GMT

The C# team at csharp-online.net has a download link for a consolidated document presenting the Unified C# 3.0 Specification, which brings together all prior C# specs with the latest version. It weighs in at slightly over 500 pages, but looks to be the most comprehensive documentation yet available for C#, and is an essential reference for any .NET developer working at the deeper levels.

[Database] Reporting Services Architecture

CSharpener — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:16:00 GMT

There is an excellent article on Reporting Services Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS) at csharp-online.net. There is a great diagram on the first page. Reading the article from front to back is a little difficult, as it is broken up in small pieces, but the navigation menu to the right of the text is helpful for moving around when tracking down references. The article presented here is an extract from a book by Michael Lisin and Jim Joseph.

[Laws] Tobler's Metrics of Civilization

CSharpener — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:51:00 GMT

Here is a gift for those who care:

Tobler's Metrics of Civilization

[Human Factor] Tobler's Elixir

CSharpener — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:27:00 GMT

This is to record something fundamentally important that I wrote long ago.

"Tears are the elixir by means of which roses may emerge from thorns."

[TDD] TDD'ing Sudoku in Ruby

CSharpener — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 02:30:00 GMT

Ron Jeffries, of Extreme Programming fame, and some other folks on the Test Driven Development email list, have started several passes at creating a Sudoku solver by following the TDD approach. I really am enjoying following Ron's pursuit in his article, OK, Sudoku, and in the forum and list messages. Ron is doing a Ruby version, which is even more fun to follow. If you want to see TDD in action, watch as Ron goes about implementing something about which he knew basically nothing when he started. Great fun!

[Languages] Ruby is coming along on .NET

CSharpener — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:53:00 GMT

I have been checking out a couple of newer implementations of Ruby for .NET. Each offers something different and it is obvious that we are getting closer to having a really usable variant of Ruby on .NET in the near future. Here are my current favorite contenders:

Ruby.NET, by Gardens Point
RubyCLR Drop 4, by John Lam
IronRuby, by Wilco Bauwer

Each of these implementations has features worthy of notice and emulation. Congratulations to the people behind them for contributing such fine work!

[Languages] A Smalltalk Compiler for .NET - #Smalltalk

CSharpener — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:39:00 GMT

A fortuitous incident led me to review the .NET Languages website, which has a great list of .NET languages on its Resources page. There, I found out about a new-to-me compiler, #Smalltalk, that implements Smalltalk to run on .NET. The #Smalltalk system is offered under an Open Software License version 1.1 and the included class library is supposedly "mostly compatible with the ANSI Smalltalk standard." In its current version, #Smalltalk does not have support for GUI development but such is planned for a future release.

[Tools] Unit Testing for JavaScript

CSharpener — Tue, 30 May 2006 16:09:00 GMT

The entire development community probably already knows about this, but I just discovered that an Open Source unit testing framework exists for JavaScript. The framework is JsUnit and it is a port from JUnit. If you find yourself doing extensive work with JavaScript, you may find JsUnit quite useful.