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Tosh Afanasiev: Loading "Vanilla" JavaScript files in Node

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Also available at my website http:/ tosh.me/. And on Twitter @toshafanasiev. Tuesday, 10 June 2014. Loading "Vanilla" JavaScript files in Node. I'm writing more and more JavaScript these days and it's nice to have some sort of test infrastructure in place for all but the most trivial codebase. If you're using a framework like AngularJS. I came up against this recently and my solution was to use Node.js. And the excellent jasmine-node. I wrote a very simple Node module called include.

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Tosh Afanasiev: 417 when accessing Visual Studio Extensions Gallery

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Also available at my website http:/ tosh.me/. And on Twitter @toshafanasiev. Sunday, 10 February 2013. 417 when accessing Visual Studio Extensions Gallery. If, while working behind a proxy, you click Tools Extensions and Updates . in VS 2012 and then select 'Online' on the left hand side you may get a 417 Error - this is caused by the proxy server not handling the 100 Continue response properly, luckily you can configure Visual Studio to not try the header-only check and get around the problem.

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Tosh Afanasiev: August 2012

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Also available at my website http:/ tosh.me/. And on Twitter @toshafanasiev. Wednesday, 15 August 2012. C doesn't provide a. There are numerous Scope Guard or Scope Exit constructs around, including one in the Boost library and the D Language's scope(exit). Construct, that aim to tidy up this pattern, making it quicker to write and easier to read. My good friend Steve recently sent me his version of this idea - it was characteristically brilliant and I decided to have a go myself. Well, thanks to some of...

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Also available at my website http:/ tosh.me/. And on Twitter @toshafanasiev. Wednesday, 18 December 2013. I wanted to confirm the ordering of the invocation list of a multicast delegate created by concatenating two delegates so I put this quick test together. The results were reassuringly unsurprising:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I wanted to confirm the ordering of the invocation. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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Tosh Afanasiev: December 2013

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Also available at my website http:/ tosh.me/. And on Twitter @toshafanasiev. Wednesday, 18 December 2013. I wanted to confirm the ordering of the invocation list of a multicast delegate created by concatenating two delegates so I put this quick test together. The results were reassuringly unsurprising:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I wanted to confirm the ordering of the invocation. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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Tosh Afanasiev: November 2013

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Also available at my website http:/ tosh.me/. And on Twitter @toshafanasiev. Thursday, 21 November 2013. C friends for C#. A mate of mine asked me about C style 'friends' for C#. And I thought I'd lay out the nearest approximation I could make to this C language feature in C#. What I wanted to get across is that you can achieve the same effect in C# as declaring a friend in C , with the help of nested types and partial classes:. Having to nest the 'friend' class and make both classes partial are not the ...

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How to use *args and **kwargs in Python - SaltyCrane Blog

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Notes on Javascript and web development. How to use *args and * kwargs in Python. How to use variable length argument lists in Python. The special syntax,. In function definitions is used to pass a variable number of arguments to a function. The single asterisk form (. Is used to pass a. Variable-length argument list, and the double asterisk form is used to pass a. Formal arg: 1 another arg: two another arg: 3. Formal arg: 1 another keyword arg: myarg2: two another keyword arg: myarg3: 3. Thanks just lea...

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Tosh Afanasiev: June 2012

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Also available at my website http:/ tosh.me/. And on Twitter @toshafanasiev. Friday, 29 June 2012. An Ode to Ruby in C#. I love going off and exploring new languages, particularly when it allows (forces) me to think differently about the kind of stuff I generally take for granted. Take Ruby. For instance. In Ruby you can do this. 10times do i puts "The square of #{i} is #{i * i}" end. Bit is called a block and it's a bit of code you can pass to a function to be executed at that function's discretion; the.

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Tosh Afanasiev: C++ friends for C#

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Also available at my website http:/ tosh.me/. And on Twitter @toshafanasiev. Thursday, 21 November 2013. C friends for C#. A mate of mine asked me about C style 'friends' for C#. And I thought I'd lay out the nearest approximation I could make to this C language feature in C#. What I wanted to get across is that you can achieve the same effect in C# as declaring a friend in C , with the help of nested types and partial classes:. Having to nest the 'friend' class and make both classes partial are not the ...

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Tosh Afanasiev: February 2014

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Also available at my website http:/ tosh.me/. And on Twitter @toshafanasiev. Tuesday, 4 February 2014. Managing CLR Assemblies in SQL Server. I've just employed a SQL Server CLR stored procedure in a project I'm working on (I was initially worried about performance, but having looked into it I've found that it can be quite good, provided you're mindful of marshalling boundaries etc.). Statement using a binary literal of this DLL. It was here I ran into one of Microsoft's weirder design decisions. Stateme...