Development by Davis: “Infographic: How Drupal combines open source, openness, and security” plus 4 more

Infographic: How Drupal combines open source, openness, and security
The blurry line of developer and journalists in the new journalism of the open web
My new video: Global namespace in Visual Basic 11
My new video: Call Hierarchy in Visual Basic 11
My new video: CallerMemberInfo in Visual Basic 11

Infographic: How Drupal combines open source, openness, and security

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Drupal is a huge software project by any measure, with thousands of developers writing code for it and deploying websites and applications on it. Alongside Linux, Apache, and Mozilla, it is one of the largest open source projects in the world. This infographic helps explain the important work of Drupal's Security Team.

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The blurry line of developer and journalists in the new journalism of the open web

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 02:36 PM PDT

"We're at an inflection point of the way journalism treats the web," Dan Singer said in the "Open Web, Open News: Reporters & Developers Remix" at SXSWi. "We're no longer simply putting things into channels." He and the panel discussed the difference between between being "on the web," which is how traditional journalism first approached technology, and being "of the web," which is what they'd prefer to see. For journalism to become "of the web," there's a significant need for new journalists who are willing to collaborate.

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My new video: Global namespace in Visual Basic 11

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:12 AM PDT

Visual Basic 11 Beta makes it easier to abstract the namespace definition outside the root namespace of the project by using the Global keyword for namespaces.

I have recorded a new video to explain how it works, including extending namespaces of the .NET Framework's BCL:

Alessandro

My new video: Call Hierarchy in Visual Basic 11

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:09 AM PDT

Visual Studio 11 Beta introduces the Call Hierarchy tool window for Visual Basic. This was already available in Visual C# in VS 2010, and allows getting a visual representation of calls from and to methods, showing the hierarchy of calls.

Learn how to use it in this new video that I have just recorded:

Alessandro

My new video: CallerMemberInfo in Visual Basic 11

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 09:58 AM PDT

The Beta of Visual Basic 11 introduces three new attributes: CallerFilePath, CallerLineNumber, and CallerMemberName.

These allow retrieving information that previously could be available only via reflection, and including the .pdb debug files and in full-trust environments and you will typically use them in logging scenarios.

Learn how to use them in this video:

Alessandro

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