http://softwareblog.morlok.net Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:12:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cocoa is My Girlfriend has a good article discussing some of the differenences between the way .NET encourages you to write code and the way MVC is encouraged in Cocoa. The article really speaks to the truth in that Visual Studio really encourages you to go slap your business ... http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/08/29/oop-in-cocoa-versus-net/ You may think you have an infinitely recurring appointment, but you're wrong. It turns out that when working with Exchange via WebDAV, infinite recurrence is actually cut off at an arbitrary point far in the future. This applies to accessing Exchange directly with WebDAV or by using Outlook ... http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/08/26/owaexchange-webdav-doesnt-support-infinite-recurrence/ Leopard wants to make sure you're not just bluffing when you enter your password to access an Exchange WebDAV resource. The first time you enter your password, it will reject it, but then if you just resubmit without changing anything, it will let you in (assuming you actually entered ... http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/08/26/os-x-leopard-password-head-fake/ I've been using jQuery a lot for developing some new web interface code for work. This page provides links to a lot of other resources for effectively using jQuery. http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/08/24/jquery-resources/ I was reading up on implementing the Singleton Design Pattern in various languages, and I found an interesting discussion about how the Python community prefers the Borg design pattern instead. The idea is rather than focussing on only allowing one instance of a class to be created, you just ... http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/08/24/you-will-be-assimilated/ I've been looking for a good date picker for a project I'm working on, so I though I'd post the best results I've found so far. UI jQuery Datepicker The standard datepicker available in the jQuery UI library. Pretty nice, though the visuals could use some work. The colors ... http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/08/07/javascript-date-pickers/ I was having a bit of trouble locating documentation on the command line flags for the F# compiler (fsc.exe) so I thought I'd post the list of flags myself. These can be obtained via fsc.exe --full-help. I've also posted them in text-only form. Note that fsc uses ... http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/07/05/f-compiler-fscexe-command-line-options/ In many cases it is desirable to authenticate a ASP.NET web app using Windows Authentication. Allows you to avoid storing the username/password in clear text in the web.config file, and allows for the central management of accounts without the need to maintain SQL Server accounts. Microsoft has some helpful instructions ... http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/06/12/using-windows-authentication-with-an-aspnet-11-application/ As someone who spends a great deal of time working with the issues surrounding dates and times, I always appreciate a good article on the topic.  Marcelo has a good post regarding the differences in dates/times .NET developers should be aware of when working with JavaScript. http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/06/11/differences-between-net-and-javascript-date-representations/ My work Vista machine periodically looses its ability to copy things to the clipboard.  I run a fairly complicated environment, with multiple virtual machines open at the same time, but still, it's the stupid clipboard.  It's been around since the beginning of Windows and I'm running virtual machines in a ... http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2008/06/03/vista-short-term-memory-loss/