How to understand how signalR works and its details? There is not much technical documentation out there.
I haven't watched the channel9 video yet. But these are some old but good resources on what signalR can do and how to do it.
Scott Hanselman Blog
HanselMinutes podcast
The best example app I have seen yet
There is an episode on channel9 on it worth watching
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Web+Camps+TV/Damian-Edwards-and-David-Fowler-Demonstrate-SignalR
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a few weeks ago I stumbled upon jboss forge - seems to be a cool tool, but I miss documentation beyond the tutorials.
Is there somewhere a more detailed documentation or maybe a book that I haven't found yet?
Three easy ways to learn about Forge:
Read the available documentation in the website
Practice the Hands-on Lab
Watch the videos in the Forge Youtube channel
Hope that helps! :)
I'm interested in learning about the MVC3 framework.
My background is MSc in Computer Science, with a professional experience in .NET2-4 and WebForms. I also have (very) little experience with MVC2, and some decent experience with JS and jQuery if that matters
I'm unsure which book to purchase to get me well off.
I've seen this book, Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework, recommended in a few threads but its reviews are less than stellar. Including "Many errors in code", "lots of typos", "seems to be rushed out to be the first book on the subject". Therefore, I am reluctant to just go and buy this book in its first edition.
It seems the options are limited to
http://www.amazon.com/Pro-ASP-NET-MVC-3-Framework/dp/1430234040/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312906757&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-ASP-NET-MVC-Jon-Galloway/dp/1118076583/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312907008&sr=1-1
And ofcourse, just looking at NerdDinner but I feel I'll probably miss a lot of cool features by taking that road...
Offhand note: I have no interest in learning Entity Framework at the moment.
What would be SO's recommendations for such a book?
I have the first book and posted a review of it on Amazon.
Overall it is a decent book that does a good job, but there are issues as mentioned in my review and others.
I would still recommend you get it as a starter though as for me it has been a great starter into MVC.
I have the first one (and the first and second edition as well...) and I think all editions are excellent. I can wholeheartedly recommend Sanderson's books.
I am trying to implement an application with Graphical Editing Framework GEF. But somehow it seems that the tutorials and the documentations are all very old and outdated.
Is GEF not used anymore or are there good, understandable tutorials out there?
The book mentioned by Matt is now available:
"The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framwork" by Dan Rubel, Jaime Wren, and Eric Clayberg.
Yeah, I'd agree that GEF documentation isn't great. There is a book in progress, and you can otherwise piece together information from different places; e.g. Notes for Starting Out with Eclipse GEF. Also, even if a tutorial is a few years old, it's not necessarily out of date.
Aside from the HelloWorld Tutorial, are there any other tutorials/books available with regards to component development on Joomla 1.6 ?
Although the HelloWorld guides the user through chapters/steps, it doesn't exactly explain what certain code or function does. I'm at Part 14, and I'm at a complete lost.
Really appreciate if someone could point me to some other tutorial sites or books to purchase..
Try the Joomla Programming book by Mark Dexter, I am not sure whether its available yet.
http://www.amazon.com/Joomla-Programming-Press-Mark-Dexter/dp/013278081X
you can see the preview here: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/web-development/joomla/9780132780841/components-part-ii-views-jform-and-front-end/ch08#X2ludGVybmFsX0ZsYXNoUmVhZGVyP3htbGlkPTk3ODAxMzI3ODA4NDEvMjE0
Kyle,
Documentation supporting Joomla 1.6 is lacking at this time from what I've seen. Your best bet might be http://learn.theartofjoomla.com/version-16-development.html.
This set of tutorials is exactly what is needed to really learn the new classes in 1.6. Unfortunately, they only take you so for to date. Other videos are forthcoming according to Andrew Eddie.
I now of no other tutorial that will, at this time, take you completely through the process with thorough explanations.
Regards
I am new here, and interested in collaboration and social networking sites. I wonder if any of the available social networks falls down under the "Developers' Social Networks" umbrella, if there are any.
And what makes us believe that they are developer's SNs ? How do developers use them?
I would consider github the ultimate social network for developers (... though you can fork me even if you don't know me).
Stackoverflow could be considered a developers social network as well. We unwittingly group ourselves under the tags we answer questions under and ask questions under, and a very visible heirarchy emerges thanks to the the karma system.
Yep... Stackoverflow is a socialnetwork, and Jon Skeet is /root .
What about
OpenSocial
Open Social is Google’s new collection
of application programme interfaces
(APIs). APIs are used to develop
nearly all social network sites. At
OpenSocial you can browse the
application gallery and get started
creating or modifying your own APIs.
SNetBase.com
It provides a forum for professionals
involved in all aspects of programming
and Web development to share ideas,
tips, and resources.
Facebook.com
As a programmer, you can contribute to
the site by submitting idea or code
for an application or widget.
and read an article by Scott Hanselman
Social Networking for Developers
I think the social networking features of stack overflow are fantastic.
However, while stackoverflow is great for getting answers to highly specific questions, there is still a lot of really useful information on the web in the form of blogs. Often these blog posts are more general in nature and will answer questions you will have needed to ask in the future but will never have to. (a kind of prevention vs cure)
The comments people add to blog posts often add much value. I've noticed some tech/developer blogs with 'post comment using facebook profile' features. This feature is good in that you would be using the same username for every blog that you post a comment to. It also means all of your blog comments all over the web can be aggregrated to a single place (facebook). However, I would be very hestitant in using my facebook profile to post a comment on a public blog because I wouldn't want my tech comments being posted in my friends news feed as they would be completely irrelevant to 95% of my friends (and people might think I'm a total bore!)
Ideally there would be a version of facebook that is purely for developers. It would have a a feature similar to 'facebook connect' and every tech blog would implement this 'facebook connect' feature.
I'm sorry i've gone against the grain of stackoverlow and not actually answered the question that was posted. But the overall problem is highlighted in that I'm not sure where the best place is for this kind of discussion.
My opinions are a bit different. They are not social networking sites but I suggest that a developer should play more on these sites than Orkut, Facebook etc. I don't think there can be one single option for this answer. If you are a die hard developer then you have lots of choices.
Stack Overflow (Obviously)
It has all the features of a social networking site (most importantly, it is almost addictive).
CodePlex
I consider it a platform for developer collaboration. Most important aspect of CodePlex (and Sourceforge) is that they have very little noise.
CodeProject
I love its lounge.
Note: I visit Facebook and Orkut just to see what they are doing technically because they are almost masterpieces of work. I can get a lot of ideas and inspiration from these sites.