The dynamic programmer
Chronological Archive

2017
- June
  - Day 04 - Testing the use of the firebase db
  - Day 03 - Adding Firebase database to our choo application
- March
  - Day 26 - Choo version 5
- January
  - Day 25 - Choo form validation.
2016
- December
  - Day 04 - Choo editing and deleting records.
  - Day 03 - Choo saving data in localStorage.
- November
  - Day 30 - Choo cleaning up home page.
  - Day 29 - Choo linting with eslint.
  - Day 27 - Choo generalizing your elements.
  - Day 26 - Choo application setup and first elements.
- September
  - Day 17 - The road to Web UI components.
- August
  - Day 12 - Taking HyperTerm for a ride.
- May
  - Day 19 - On dependency injection, service locator and module loaders.
  - Day 17 - Testing auth bearer headers with nock.
  - Day 14 - Switching from Jekyll to Metalsmith.
- April
  - Day 28 - Mix test.watch doesn't run migrations.
  - Day 26 - Phoenix models automatically adding tracking fields.
- February
  - Day 09 - Notes while playing with Elixir.
2015
- March
  - Day 10 - Adding a logo to ReactBootstrap NavBar.
  - Day 06 - The DevOps trap, we should all embrace DevOps.
2014
- June
  - Day 04 - Distro transports plug-ins.
- May
  - Day 28 - A complete overhaul and tones of improvements on Distro.
  - Day 23 - Calculating distance and speed with the GeoLocation API - PhoneGap (Part 9).
  - Day 22 - Deleting files with PhoneGap (Part 8).
  - Day 21 - Displaying current and max speed with PhoneGap and Ionic (Part 7).
  - Day 16 - A few different ways to improve user feedback in our Ionic application (Part 6).
  - Day 15 - Adding TCP support to Distro.
  - Day 10 - Ionic new serve task.
  - Day 09 - Uploading files with PhoneGap and Angular (Part 5).
  - Day 07 - PhoneGap errorCode 1 on FileTransfer upload.
  - Day 06 - Refactoring the js code structure PhoneGap and Angular (Part 4).
  - Day 05 - Recording Geo location data with PhoneGap and Angular (Part 3).
- April
  - Day 10 - Rake task arguments are not hashes.
- March
  - Day 23 - Mac OSX windows managers, BetterSnapTool and Slate.
  - Day 02 - MongoDB applied design patterns book review.
- February
  - Day 28 - Building a basic iOS UI using Angular and Ionic (Part 2).
  - Day 26 - Building an iOS app with PhoneGap, Angular.js and the ionic framework (Part 1).
  - Day 18 - Installing node.js on Mac OSX.
  - Day 16 - iOS 7 Programming Cookbook
2013
- December
  - Day 07 - Improving your Git work-flow with aliases.
  - Day 03 - Untokenize, a super simple template for node.
- October
  - Day 29 - Distro, helper module to create UPD clients and servers.
  - Day 19 - Xcode license error when installing node.js on Mac OS
  - Day 08 - Effective Akka (book review)
- September
  - Day 12 - A quick fix for the image gallery
  - Day 02 - Test driven infrastructure with Chef (2nd edition)
- July
  - Day 14 - Building a Flickr based photos showcase.
  - Day 12 - Gherkin editor, small bug fix
  - Day 10 - Functional JavaScript book review
- June
  - Day 20 - App walls or how to annoy your mobile users.
  - Day 13 - Converting my iPad into a portable office.
  - Day 05 - Microinteractions - book review
- May
  - Day 11 - Opa up and running - book review.
  - Day 10 - Mindfulness, meditation for the busy programmer.
- April
  - Day 21 - Beautiful new typography, the work of Pablo Impallari.
  - Day 20 - State changes, rest APIs and end points based permissions.
  - Day 19 - Fonts inspired by Buenos Aires signage.
  - Day 07 - oEmbed-node, consuming oEmbed providers with node.js.
  - Day 02 - Effective monitoring and alerting - book review.
- January
  - Day 23 - Windows PowerShell Cookbook - book review.
  - Day 16 - Newsify, my new choice on RSS reader for the iPad.
  - Day 15 - Codemash 2.0.1.3, another great conference.
  - Day 09 - Codemash 2.0.1.3 precompilers.
  - Day 06 - First pull request for curling, increasing buffer size.
  - Day 05 - Jump start CoffeeScript - book review.
  - Day 03 - Who are you, private/public key authentication for connect.
  - Day 01 - Introducing curling, a simple node wrapper for curl.
2012
- December
  - Day 31 - Get started with Arduino, A hands-on introductory workshop - video review.
  - Day 30 - node-resources helping modularize your Restify or Express application.
  - Day 27 - DynProg.Validation now available on NuGet
  - Day 22 - CSS considerations with widget development.
  - Day 21 - Web, Cloud and Mobile solutions with F# - book review.
  - Day 16 - Keeping the global namespace clean with $script loader.
  - Day 04 - Node BitBucket adds support for the user and users endpoint.
  - Day 01 - ClojureScript up and running - book review.
- November
  - Day 28 - Functional arrays. (Learning Erlang 11)
  - Day 24 - Records. (Learning Erlang 10)
  - Day 23 - String manipulation in Erlang. (Learning Erlang 9)
  - Day 22 - Async in c# 5 - book review.
  - Day 05 - tmux, productive mouse-free development - book review.
  - Day 04 - Adding changeset and followers support to node BitBucket.
- October
  - Day 21 - Super Scratch programming adventure by The LEAD Project.
  - Day 15 - Node Bitbucket now includes access to sources.
  - Day 11 - The file module (part 2). (Learning Erlang 8)
  - Day 04 - An HTTP calculator web service, just for fun.
  - Day 01 - Playing with the file module (part 1). (Learning Erlang 7)
- September
  - Day 28 - Using the iPad as a development tool.
  - Day 27 - Learning JavaScript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani.
  - Day 19 - Dynamic includes with Angular.js
  - Day 14 - On Vanilla.js and js libraries
  - Day 10 - Using includes with Angular.js to organize your UI modules.
  - Day 05 - Using JS to detect IE less than 8
  - Day 04 - On web fonts, bold and the iPad
  - Day 03 - Node module to access the Bitbucket Api
  - Day 01 - First steps with Dart
- August
  - Day 06 - Programming Computing Vision with Python by Jan Erik Solem.
- July
  - Day 08 - Resource Oriented Computing with NetKernel by Tom Geudens.
  - Day 05 - Building just an application or a framework?
  - Day 01 - Building web applications with Erlang by Zachary Kessin.
- June
  - Day 24 - Shipping as the measure of success.
  - Day 23 - Gamification by design by Gabe Zichermann and Christopher Cunningham.
  - Day 18 - Maximum number of attendees for an effective stand-up meeting.
- May
  - Day 27 - The rise of web (and browser) based IDE.
  - Day 16 - Introducing Loops, my non technical content at jux.com.
  - Day 12 - A walk through the redesign process (and evolution) of the site.
  - Day 09 - 20 recipes for programming Phone Gap by Jamie Munro.
- April
  - Day 27 - Typographic site design, The wayward irregular.
  - Day 25 - Recap of FITC Toronto 2012.
  - Day 21 - Support Light Table to make it a reality.
  - Day 20 - What is Dart? by Kathy Walrath and Seth Ladd.
  - Day 08 - Playing with recursion, (Learning Erlang 6).
  - Day 06 - Mobile design pattern gallery by Theresa Neil, book review
  - Day 03 - Module attributes and compilation (Learning Erlang 5).
- March
  - Day 29 - Responsive web design, book review.
  - Day 26 - Modules and functions, Erlang building blocks (Learning Erlang 4).
  - Day 22 - MongoDb and Scaling MongoDb, two book reviews in one.
  - Day 19 - Variables, comparisons and dynamic typing. (Learning Erlang 3)
  - Day 18 - Heads and tails, working with lists. (Learning Erlang 2)
  - Day 16 - Learning Erlang.
  - Day 09 - Windows 8 - first impressions.
2011
- November
  - Day 12 - Book review - Introducing HTML 5.
  - Day 07 - Introducing Time Traveller, date library for node.js (and javascript).
- May
  - Day 21 - Dealing with errors on node.js.
  - Day 13 - Three weeks of real node.js development.
- April
  - Day 11 - Being productive with MVC 3.
- March
  - Day 14 - Have fun with your build scripts.
- January
  - Day 13 - Codemash, IronRuby and .Net a match made in heaven.
  - Day 13 - Codemash, Polyglot web programming with the Grails framework.
  - Day 12 - Codemash Precompiler, Web automation with Selenium
2010
- November
  - Day 17 - Luca, a quick look at the request object.
  - Day 14 - Luca, writing a simple web service.
- October
  - Day 20 - Creating my first WP7 application.
  - Day 12 - Luca, abstracting the request object.
  - Day 11 - Luca - server side JavaScript websites in .Net, choosing the engine.
  - Day 06 - Some tomatoes an empty inbox and a todo list, a productivity sauce recipe.
- September
  - Day 24 - Metaprogramming ruby, book review.
  - Day 23 - A list of books for my team.
  - Day 17 - Getting to know HTML 5.
  - Day 15 - Learning about the new stabby lambda syntax in Ruby
  - Day 09 - Playing with NSubstitute, a new mocking framework for .Net
  - Day 09 - My link collection for September 9th, 2010.
  - Day 02 - Migrating the blog from dasblog to jekyll.
- July
  - Day 08 - WebMatrix, razor, Webpages and friendly urls.
  - Day 05 - A personal retrospective on WindyCityDb
- June
  - Day 17 - Pickle cucumber steps not recognized before creating the model.
  - Day 14 - Node.js web development with Express
  - Day 11 - Starting with Node.js.
  - Day 11 - Living on the dark side. Ubuntu and RoR development from a Windows dev perspective.
- May
  - Day 13 - Are there a lot of programs for that?
  - Day 02 - My BDD Session at Toronto Code Camp - slides, code and retrospective.
- April
- March
- February
  - Day 25 - Videos of the PyCon 2010 sessions.
  - Day 25 - Going mobile with Mippin.
  - Day 23 - Digging SpecFlow, misspelling Gerkhin files
  - Day 19 - Mercurial integration with Visual Studio
  - Day 18 - Book review - Agile Retrospectives; Making good teams great.
  - Day 17 - Continuous Improvement- my list of books for the next little while.
  - Day 15 - Git integration with Visual Studio
  - Day 02 - Using SpecFlow + WatiN or BDD for web applications without leaving the CLR.
- January
  - Day 27 - Test driven outside in, starting with Cucumber and RubyMine.
  - Day 21 - Ruby Koans, learning ruby the test driven way.
  - Day 19 - The simplicity and speed of Git and DVCS in general.
  - Day 18 - Notes and personal retrospective from my first Codemash.
  - Day 01 - Insert route, route registration after the fact on ASP.NET MVC
2009
- December
  - Day 26 - Codemash Scheduler online; pick and choose sessions to go and export to your calendar.
- November
  - Day 22 - ASP.NET Mvc in Action. Book review
  - Day 15 - My new an improved tooling for builds and project management.
  - Day 09 - Using MongoDB from C#
  - Day 08 - Excellent post on a real site using MongoDB.
- October
  - Day 28 - Pragmatic Thinking and Learning book review.
  - Day 25 - What I enjoyed at StackOverflow DevDays Toronto.
  - Day 15 - Horn, First Impressions
  - Day 01 - Using the Connection String section for Log4Net and NHibernate
- September
  - Day 19 - Proper naming in generics and Lambda expressions.
  - Day 10 - The Passionate Programmer - Book review.
  - Day 09 - More than a month without posting - wow!
- July
  - Day 23 - Using Gestalt in a site that already uses prototype.js
  - Day 22 - Yellow sticky notes for your watched variables in the new VS 2010.
  - Day 21 - Super simple Silverlight video player in 20 minutes with a text editor and Gestalt.
  - Day 20 - Record steps to reproduce a problem on windows 7.
  - Day 16 - A Resharper template for use with Migrator.net
  - Day 14 - Adding LinqPad to my toolbox.
  - Day 11 - What is ProngHorn and why I'm doing it?
  - Day 08 - Integrate Subversion with VS for free on Windows 7
- June
  - Day 21 - A simple solution to the Big Fat Controller problem in MVC.
  - Day 09 - Lightweight Test Automation Framework June Update
  - Day 09 - Making sure your Silverlight 2 widget will work in a cross domain scenario
  - Day 04 - List of recent InfoQ videos on design, architecture, DSL's and more.
  - Day 03 - VS 2010, Generate method from usage.
- May
  - Day 27 - FirstOrNullObject extension method for IEnumerable<T> and FirstOrNew.
  - Day 24 - Tuple, a new type on .Net 4.0
  - Day 02 - Toronto Code Camp 2009
- April
  - Day 24 - More from Oredev 08 - Ayende on ActiveRecord to write less code.
  - Day 23 - The Renaissance in development; Ted Neward at Oredev 2008
  - Day 21 - Bullet points post.
  - Day 20 - Extending ASP.NET MVC
  - Day 14 - Silent lately
  - Day 04 - Why testing saves time.
- March
  - Day 27 - Lightweight Test Framework, attaching to a new window after window.open
  - Day 24 - Microsoft Lightweight Automation Framework- Writing your tests in a different web
  - Day 24 - Lightweight Test Framework, fixing how to handle window.open
  - Day 22 - Microsoft Lightweight Test Automation Framework- Fixing window.open errors
  - Day 21 - Yahoo.ca doesn't work on IE8 be default.
  - Day 16 - The Herding Code - NHibernate performance podcast
  - Day 10 - How Linq works, lamdbas, anonymous delegates and some compiler voodoo.
  - Day 09 - RubyMine, an IDE for Ruby, Rails and so much more.
  - Day 08 - NHibernate in Action, First impressions
  - Day 02 - Nullable types, whats going on when you do int?
- February
  - Day 27 - Validator moves to it's own package
  - Day 25 - Refactoring an OS project- take 1
  - Day 24 - Coding standards on a team and a journalist Manual of Style and Usages
  - Day 24 - ASP.NET MVC in Action chapters 5,6 and 7.
  - Day 22 - Scott Bellware on Twitter
  - Day 21 - You can only refactor when you have a testing suite.
  - Day 18 - Auto properties in c#, what the compiler does for you.
  - Day 16 - ASP.NET MVC in Action, first impressions.
  - Day 15 - More Uncle Bob videos.
  - Day 15 - Gurtle, access your Google code issue tracker from inside TortoiseSVN
  - Day 14 - Integrate Visual Studio with TortoiseSVN for free.
  - Day 13 - Video of Uncle Bob on Craftsmanship an ethics
  - Day 12 - Excellent presentation on REST by Stefan Tilkov
  - Day 11 - Dependencies to third party libraries; attributes, the kiss of dead.
  - Day 10 - Using tests as a learning tool
  - Day 10 - The problem with third party libraries; Exceptions..
  - Day 09 - Elegant Code Cast and a bit about testing and the role of QA.
  - Day 09 - CruiseControl.NET Build Station or how to run CC.net in a development machine without IIS
  - Day 02 - JSLint for Visual Studio, Kew a new .Net language and other interesting stuff found on Codeplex
- January
  - Day 24 - Have you ever wanted to learn Rails but you never wanted where to start?
  - Day 23 - Check.That validation framework reworked
  - Day 22 - XGENO.ORG new lightweight ORM Mapper.
  - Day 17 - FubuMVC now runs on Cassini!!!
  - Day 16 - Surface development at the Metro Toronto .Net User Group
  - Day 16 - Methods and Tools a free development magazine.
  - Day 15 - The Herding code podcast about FubuMVC.
  - Day 14 - New Release of CC.Net Community plugIns on CodePlex.
  - Day 14 - Isolate yourself from external libraries using the Facade pattern.
  - Day 13 - DSL book from Martin Fowler
  - Day 12 - FubuMVC another MVC framework for .Net
  - Day 11 - xVal a good validation framework for ASP.NET MVC
  - Day 11 - A rant on professionalism by Chad Myers.
  - Day 08 - Chrome doesn't like the feed scheme
  - Day 01 - Catharsis, a complete framework for developing Web apps using MVC and NHibernate 2.0
2008
- December
  - Day 26 - Keep your Controllers lean.
  - Day 25 - Implementing a validation class.
  - Day 24 - My actual minimum requirements for a project
  - Day 23 - Los Techies is having a very interesting series on Kanban
  - Day 23 - Can Agile kill a project?
  - Day 23 - Continuous Integration Do's and Don't.
  - Day 22 - Microsoft Code Analysis Tool (CAT) identify vulnerabilities on your code.
  - Day 20 - Sharp Architecture project template in a machine without ASP.NET MVC Beta installed
  - Day 20 - ASP.NET MVC RC 1 coming next January.
  - Day 19 - Sharp Architecture approaching version 1.0.
  - Day 18 - Scout plug in for Resharper to navigate your code.
  - Day 18 - SVN Notifier, or keeping up to date with your source control system
  - Day 16 - Our Kanban board went up today.
  - Day 16 - Big Visible Cruise patch to specify projects in the configuration file
  - Day 15 - ELMAH error handler for asp.net applications
  - Day 15 - Big Visible Cruise- Cruise control project status in a big screen
  - Day 14 - IronPython 2.0 released!
  - Day 13 - Thumbs up to Baby Smash
  - Day 12 - Goodbye Books and Bits, Hello Dynamic Programmer!
  - Day 12 - Research on TDD by Microsoft.
  - Day 11 - YAGNI it's not a excuse for badly designed applications.
  - Day 11 - PDC 2009 dates and mailing list.
- November
  - Day 28 - IE Tester - Four IE's in one.
  - Day 27 - Ta-Da List and Chrome, or how to do good products.
  - Day 26 - Mediocrity should scare you.
  - Day 25 - Hurray to my team
  - Day 25 - Building the right team.
  - Day 23 - Reading a book and sharing with your pairs.
  - Day 22 - Watir to run my smoke and regression tests
  - Day 22 - Uskhay a web framework and a programming exercise.
- October
  - Day 17 - Using Extension methods- Improving readability.
- September
  - Day 05 - Architecture by Baseball
  - Day 03 - Google Chrome and Silverlight- It kind of works!!!
  - Day 03 - Google Chrome, The new kid in the browsers block.
- August
  - Day 29 - More tools to format C# code into HTML
  - Day 29 - Do you need to format the code for your blog?
  - Day 26 - Release of new versions of very cool software - NHibernate and Json.NET.
  - Day 25 - NArrange or keeping your code in order. (How to run it for only one file)
  - Day 22 - On Sergio Pereira's - Don't tell me you did that with JavaScript
  - Day 19 - Videos of the Agile 2008 sessions at InfoQ
  - Day 17 - The Onion Architecture and a layered aproach.
  - Day 16 - Some interesting looking projects 2.
- July
  - Day 25 - Some interesting looking CodePlex projects
- June
  - Day 12 - PartCover.Net and CC.Net Part 2 - Making it pretty.
  - Day 11 - Integrate PartCover.Net and Cruise Control.Net
  - Day 04 - Javascript, the good parts, the book.
  - Day 04 - Hanselminutes and the passion for software development
- May
  - Day 29 - Nant custom task to delete more than once.
  - Day 29 - IIS 7.0 and classic ASP can't create folder (or upload files).
  - Day 18 - Nant build scripts template for Visual Studio
  - Day 17 - ASP.Net Development server in a custom port
  - Day 16 - DevTeach - The best sessions - 1 (MVC submersion)
  - Day 14 - REST, a video about it, and a book to rule them all.
  - Day 13 - Linqy batch of goodness - TVBUG meeting with Scott Hanselmann.
  - Day 13 - DevTeach day 1 - Scott Hanselman keynote
- February
  - Day 27 - Heroes happen here - Toronto
- January
  - Day 21 - Testing your asp.net pages with NunitAsp (and no web controls)
  - Day 20 - The SmartBag to replace the ViewData on MVC
  - Day 20 - CSS parser class in .NET.
  - Day 19 - PartCover the Code Coverage tool for me
  - Day 09 - The importance of code review
  - Day 09 - Free virtual machine software.
  - Day 05 - PSPad, editors and other tools that I can't leave without.
  - Day 04 - Extending the string object in c#
  - Day 02 - The Ruby (and Rails) IDE that I miss
2007
- December
  - Day 31 - NAnt 0.86 beta 1 with support for 3.5 is available
  - Day 31 - Implementing the Each method in C# collections.
  - Day 30 - Learn about SQL 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 for Free
  - Day 30 - A nice little Ruby book
  - Day 28 - .Net simple Templating system (2)
  - Day 25 - The same template in the client and server side.
  - Day 25 - The future of C#.
  - Day 25 - Ruby on Rails 2.0
  - Day 25 - LINQ to search arrays and Auto-implemented properties.
  - Day 23 - Using Microsoft ASP.NET MVC with DooDads
  - Day 23 - Using an existing Model with the ASP.MVC framework
  - Day 11 - Fixing IIS 5.0 to work with the MVC
  - Day 11 - Microsoft MVC framework available
  - Day 08 - Applying BDD to requirements gathering.
  - Day 08 - A REST API in 20 minutes - Part 2.
  - Day 08 - A REST API in 20 minutes - Part 1.
  - Day 08 - Microsoft MVC coming along.
  - Day 07 - Microsoft Volta - AIR.NET?
- October
  - Day 27 - Why you need to use a good architecture when writing JavaScript
  - Day 27 - Prototype and Script.aculo.us presentation
  - Day 12 - MVC framework in .NET by Microsoft
  - Day 11 - Supporting WM in Firefox
  - Day 06 - ALT.NET
- September
  - Day 09 - Flex versus AJAX
- August
  - Day 20 - Ajax Hacks

2017

June

Day 04 - Testing the use of the firebase db

Day 03 - Adding Firebase database to our choo application

March

Day 26 - Choo version 5

January

Day 25 - Choo form validation.

2016

December

Day 04 - Choo editing and deleting records.

Day 03 - Choo saving data in localStorage.

November

Day 30 - Choo cleaning up home page.

Day 29 - Choo linting with eslint.

Day 27 - Choo generalizing your elements.

Day 26 - Choo application setup and first elements.

September

Day 17 - The road to Web UI components.

August

Day 12 - Taking HyperTerm for a ride.

May

Day 19 - On dependency injection, service locator and module loaders.

Day 17 - Testing auth bearer headers with nock.

Day 14 - Switching from Jekyll to Metalsmith.

April

Day 28 - Mix test.watch doesn't run migrations.

Day 26 - Phoenix models automatically adding tracking fields.

February

Day 09 - Notes while playing with Elixir.

2015

March

Day 10 - Adding a logo to ReactBootstrap NavBar.

Day 06 - The DevOps trap, we should all embrace DevOps.

2014

June

Day 04 - Distro transports plug-ins.

May

Day 28 - A complete overhaul and tones of improvements on Distro.

Day 23 - Calculating distance and speed with the GeoLocation API - PhoneGap (Part 9).

Day 22 - Deleting files with PhoneGap (Part 8).

Day 21 - Displaying current and max speed with PhoneGap and Ionic (Part 7).

Day 16 - A few different ways to improve user feedback in our Ionic application (Part 6).

Day 15 - Adding TCP support to Distro.

Day 10 - Ionic new serve task.

Day 09 - Uploading files with PhoneGap and Angular (Part 5).

Day 07 - PhoneGap errorCode 1 on FileTransfer upload.

Day 06 - Refactoring the js code structure PhoneGap and Angular (Part 4).

Day 05 - Recording Geo location data with PhoneGap and Angular (Part 3).

April

Day 10 - Rake task arguments are not hashes.

March

Day 23 - Mac OSX windows managers, BetterSnapTool and Slate.

Day 02 - MongoDB applied design patterns book review.

February

Day 28 - Building a basic iOS UI using Angular and Ionic (Part 2).

Day 26 - Building an iOS app with PhoneGap, Angular.js and the ionic framework (Part 1).

Day 18 - Installing node.js on Mac OSX.

Day 16 - iOS 7 Programming Cookbook

2013

December

Day 07 - Improving your Git work-flow with aliases.

Day 03 - Untokenize, a super simple template for node.

October

Day 29 - Distro, helper module to create UPD clients and servers.

Day 19 - Xcode license error when installing node.js on Mac OS

Day 08 - Effective Akka (book review)

September

Day 12 - A quick fix for the image gallery

Day 02 - Test driven infrastructure with Chef (2nd edition)

July

Day 14 - Building a Flickr based photos showcase.

Day 12 - Gherkin editor, small bug fix

Day 10 - Functional JavaScript book review

June

Day 20 - App walls or how to annoy your mobile users.

Day 13 - Converting my iPad into a portable office.

Day 05 - Microinteractions - book review

May

Day 11 - Opa up and running - book review.