Connecting to Oracle from SQL Server

I wanted to query some Oracle data from the SQL Server Management Studio today and issue some updates as well.  After trying many, many things I finally was able to get the connection to work.  I wanted to document the exact steps here, mostly for myself. You have to add a linked server into SQL …

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Generics In TypeScript

In this post I want to explore all the functionality available in TypeScript to use generics. Let’s start with the simples example of creating strongly types arrays.  module generics {        class Person {        name: string;        parents: Person[];    } } Now, you can only add a person to parents collection.  It is very simple, but you cannot for example add a …

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Talks at DevLink 2014

This Wednesday I spoke at DevLink 2014.  As I promised, here are slides and sample project. Building Angular Application with TypeScript part 1 Intro to TypeScript slides Intro to Angular slides Building Angular Application with TypeScript part 2 Slides Demo project   Thank you

Atlanta Code Camp 2014

Registration is now open for Atlanta Code Camp! https://atlcc2014.eventbrite.com You can check out official web site here.  If you are interested in speaking, please fill out Call for Speakers form. As usual, we have opportunity for sponsors.  You can view sponsor information here.  Please send you inquires to me or to codecamp@live.com Thanks and see …

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Atlanta Code Camp 2014

Atlanta code camp 2014 preparation is officially underway! Atlanta Code Camp is taking place on OCTOBER 11th, 2014 Atlanta Code Camp is your opportunity to join your other Atlanta developer and design community members in a free day of training. It will be held at Southern Polytechnic State University. You can get directions here. Registration …

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Resharper Solution Error Analyzer

I love ReSharper tool by JetBrains.  Today however for one of my solutions I could not get the solution error analyzer to stop.  The solution is very large, and Visual Studio performance was really bad.  The symptom was the following.  Visual Studio’s status bar was continuously flashing in lower right corner.  ReSharper analysis icon was …

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Outlook Style Recurrence Calculator

Recently I have been researching the ability to have Outlook style recurrence pattern calculations in .NET.  Since I could not find anything, I just wrote one myself.  It took a bit of time, but now the project is published on GitHub and NuGet. Library written for .NET that perform Outlook style recurrence calculations. The key …

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Talks at CodeStock 2014

I spoke at CodeStock yesterday.  I believe this was my 5th year at the conference.  I always enjoy it.  I attended a number of talks myself and hang out with some folks.  I saw a bunch of attendees I met before, and it is nice to see them and be recognized. I did two talks. …

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Adding Page Slide Animation to Angular App

I wanted to add some pizzazz to an Angular application I am working on.  So, I wanted to add an animation to page load event.  I am using Angular 1.2 +, and the way animations work changed in that version.  So, if you are on pre 1.2 version, this post really does not apply.  It …

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Passing Complex Parameters between Angular Controllers

Last week I encountered for the first time the need to pass complex parameters from one Angular controller to another.  The basic scenario is related to passing selected date and other criteria data from a view with a calendar on it to another view / URL where an appointment is being edited.  I want to …

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