Development by Davis: “SPARKcon: Art, music, and success with open source process” plus 7 more

SPARKcon: Art, music, and success with open source process
Do you use open source when completing your NCAA tournament bracket?
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
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

SPARKcon: Art, music, and success with open source process

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Process over content. Aly Khalifa from Gamil Design and Designbox used this mantra to instill open source roots at SPARKcon—an annual event that showcases, celebrates, and influences the creative momentum naturally found in North Carolina's Triangle region.

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Do you use open source when completing your NCAA tournament bracket?

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 02:00 AM PDT

How do you make your NCAA tournament selections?

I make the picks myself

I crowdsource my selections

I conduct research based on available data

I choose based on mascots

The craziness of March basketball is here. Sports fans and offices around the world are filling out NCAA tournament brackets. Can open source help you make the right picks?

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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

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