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Caliburn.Micro and Ninject

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 31/01/2012 - 08:00

I'm developing an application where a great deal of the functionality will be provided through plug in assemblies dropped into the main installation folder. This application is using Ninject as the dependency injection framework, and Caliburn.Micro for its support of the MVVM architecture.

Fortunately, making these two frameworks cooperate is pretty easy - all you have to do is to create a custom Caliburn.Micro bootstrapper to tie them together. Here's mine, with some explanation about how it works interspersed.

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When a bomb beheld

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 24/01/2012 - 08:00

Here's a puzzle for you all ...

Assume you're working with a complex system that's highly important for the business, one that is mission critical for some of the staff, where they are dependent of the system so they can do their jobs every day.

Further, lets assume the system has just been restarted after a major meltdown and you're investigating the cause of that failure.

When you think you've identified the sequence of actions that caused the system to go down, when you have a plausible theory of the crash that matches known information, what do you do next?

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Coding Videos

Submitted by Bevan on Sat, 21/01/2012 - 20:27

Here are a couple of excellent videos, a 20 minute crash course on the essentials of computer programming ...

See http://hillelcoren.com/coder/

Welli.NET: What's Next for .NET Developers?

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 17/01/2012 - 08:41

An exciting start to the year with the Wellington .NET User group as Ivan Towlson presents on all the new stuff coming with Windows 8:

Windows 8 is expected this year, and it's shaping up to be the biggest change since Windows 95. It brings a new shell, the new Metro application model and user interface, the new Windows Runtime, and an aggressive focus on iPad-style consumer devices alongside the traditional desktop or laptop. And along with Windows 8 comes Visual Studio 11, featuring C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5 and support for Metro/Win8 applications.

Scheduled Date: 
Wednesday, 25 January 2012 - 6:00pm
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It's a (PowerShell) Trap

Submitted by Bevan on Fri, 06/01/2012 - 16:47

Here’s a PowerShell trap that needs better publicity - if you have both x64 and x86 versions of PowerShell installed (say, as you would on Windows Server 2008 R2), their security policies are independent.

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