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• Session Storage in JRuby on Rails There are many ways to store sessions in Ruby on Rails, but by using JRuby, we get another option that I think supersedes the common solutions... Using the Java Server's... »
  

  Andrew Avenoso | JRuby, Java, Ruby, Web Development | August 9, 2010 12:30 PM

• Death to the DAO and How to Test LINQ Occasionally I hear complaints that LINQ is hard to unit test. These complaints aren't about LINQ to objects, mind you, they're specific to the complexities of the flavors of LINQ... »
  

  Lee Richardson | .NET | July 22, 2010 10:42 PM

• Display a custom UIView like a UIActionSheet Have you ever tried to use a UIActionSheet to display more than just buttons? It doesn't work, as you have probably figured out. The common solution is to create a... »
  

  Andrew Homeyer | iPhone | June 14, 2010 12:05 AM

• Launching Mini Confluence Enterprise Edition at the Atlassian Summit We're in San Francisco this week at the Atlassian Summit lunching Mini Confluence Enterprise Edition -- a way to access Confluence on your iPhone, Blackberry, Palm or Android. At last... »
  

  Caroline Wizeman | General, iPhone | June 10, 2010 6:24 PM

• Missing the each_line method in FakeFS version 0.2.1? Add it! Recently we have been using the excellent FakeFS (fake filesystem) gem in some specs to test code that reads and writes files on the filesystem. We are using the latest... »
  

  Scott Leberknight | Ruby, Testing | May 6, 2010 10:22 PM

• Selenium Mojo : Protoype Bindings in Selenium IntroductionOn my current project we have been involved in converting some of the hundreds of manual tests that are run by our Test Team every release into a suite of... »
  

  Stephen Mouring Jr. | Groovy, JavaScript, Testing, Web Development | April 24, 2010 2:00 PM

• ASP.AJAX 4 Templates Part 4 - jQuery, and Manual JSON Object Manipulation This is part 4 of a multi-part series exploring building client side AJAX applications with ASP.Net AJAX 4 Templating and the WCF Data Services (aka ADO.Net Data Services, aka oData,... »
  

  Lee Richardson | .NET | April 10, 2010 2:03 PM

• Taking Polyglot Programming Further I consider polyglot programming to be using the best tool for the problem. Some languages are inherently better at solving certain types of problems. We should embrace these advantages and switch freely... »
  

  Jason Harwig | April 1, 2010 12:00 AM

• Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010 - Part 3 Note: This is one of a multi-part series exploring building client side AJAX applications with ASP.Net AJAX 4 Templating and the WCF Data Services (aka ADO.Net Data Services, aka... »
  

  Lee Richardson | .NET | March 21, 2010 10:17 PM

• Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010 - Part 2 Note: This is one of a multi-part series exploring building client side AJAX applications with ASP.Net AJAX 4 Templating and the WCF Data Services (aka ADO.Net Data Services, aka oData,... »
  

  Lee Richardson | .NET | March 21, 2010 8:36 PM

• Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010 - Part 1 If you haven't played with it yet, one of the things you'll immediately notice about SharePoint 2010 is that the UI is extremely AJAX centric. For instance modifying or adding... »
  

  Lee Richardson | .NET | March 21, 2010 6:37 PM

• The Agile Attitude Part 2: Letting Go For many of us in the IT industry, the popularity of Agile development has been a freeing experience.  When an organization understands its role in Agile development and allows the... »
  

  Jeff Borst | Agile Development | March 14, 2010 11:04 PM

• Learning ANTLR part I This year one of my goals is to try and become proficient in using ANTLR. I think that learning to translate text or build an external DSL is skill that,... »
  

  Bill Bejeck | General, Java | February 27, 2010 12:44 AM

• Hanging out with industry leaders... Thanks to Near Infinity's generous training budget, I had the opportunity last week to spend 3 days with several members of the Object Mentors group. These guys have an enormous amount of... »
  

  Andrew Wagner | Agile Development, General, Testing | February 26, 2010 9:50 AM

• [video] How To Create Burndown Charts For User Stories in SharePoint I love tracking user stories in SharePoint. It's free (assuming you have access to a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 machine with WSS turned on) and is extremely flexible.... »
  

  Lee Richardson | Agile Development | February 12, 2010 4:46 PM

• Selenium Mojo : seleniumConsole IntroductionSo I stumbled across Griffon not too long ago:http://griffon.codehaus.org/It is a new project on Codehaus.org whose unique aim is to bring the Grails framework and way of doing things to... »
  

  Stephen Mouring Jr. | Grails, Groovy, Testing | February 8, 2010 10:23 AM

• Sharepoint ASP .Net Ajax Configuration In the world of web development, there is a little thing called ajax. Ajax is so simple because it is built in to Javascript. I like to use ajax to... »
  

  Sean Howell | .NET, Web Development | February 2, 2010 6:34 PM

• Hello, World! I'm a new software engineer here at Near Infinity, and very excited to be aboard! Hope to put some real content on this blog soon.... »
  

  Andrew Wagner | General | January 31, 2010 5:01 PM

• Using Keynote Remote When There's No Wi-Fi Around I just bought Keynote Remote for my iPhone. It is very simple, has the option to display presenter notes, and is absurdly simple to link to Keynote and start... »
  

  Scott Leberknight | iPhone | January 24, 2010 11:14 PM

• Low Memory Patch For Lucene While I'm working on getting my code into lucene.  I have patched 3.0.0 and 2.9.1 with my low memory patch.By default the small memory footprint is enabled to change back... »
  

  Aaron McCurry | Java, Lucene | January 19, 2010 9:25 PM

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