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SQLite – a database for .Net applications

Posted in Developer Resources, Links on Friday, January 30th, 2009 at 12:33 No Comments

SQLite is a well known alternative for developers wishing to provide a light database embedded with the application. Moreover SQLite is in the public domain and thus allows many developpers to rely on this SQL database engine.

For .Net developpers who needs a local databse, you can use…

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Win32 API from .Net application

Posted in Developer Resources, Links on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 at 22:59 No Comments

When you use .Net, you sometimes need some old win32 api’s. Even if a managed environment is really appreciable and confortable, there are some part of windows you can’t access from C# or VB .net code. Then you often have no other choice than rely…

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Groovy ecosystem

Posted in Developer Resources, Links on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 at 07:55 No Comments

Among the devoxx 2008 university slides, you can find a Groovy/Grails presentation. This document contains interesting references:

  • Griffon is a Grails like application framework for developing desktop applications in Groovy. You can begin with the
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.Net auto update application

Posted in Developer Resources, Links on Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 at 09:48 2 Comments

I’m looking for a way to insert an auto-update functionnality in a .Net application.  So far, I found only 3 approaches to easily update an application:

  1. Microsoft Patterns & Practices provide an Updater Application Block v2.0. An application block is a…
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Are bookmarks useful?

Posted in Knowledge, Reflexion on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 at 18:02 3 Comments

There is a question I keep asking myself: “are bookmarks useful?”
In this first part, I will try to describe my own experience with bookmarks but hopefully you could help me to find a decent answer by sharing your own habits…  In a second post, I…

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Mad Money with Eric Schmidt

Posted in Links, Videos on Saturday, January 24th, 2009 at 13:56 No Comments

Hello ! I just wanted to share a video on CNBC – Mad Money where Jim Cramer interviewed Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) about how US could “change”. They also talk about creation of new white color jobs since the tech employees are also highly impacted by the recession.

Eric…

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  • Mad Money with Eric Schmidt