Meseret Gebre

Tired of restarting nodejs every time you make a change to a js file? Well this issue has been fixed already and here is the solution. Thanks to Remy Sharp and his work on nodemon! To get going install nodemon like so. npm install -g nodemon Then you can start your app like so. nodemon [...]

  I am heart broken and sad to hear that Steve Jobs has passed away. I truly believed he was a visionary and creative genius. One of my personal heroes and he will always be missed. Through him I knew that thinking differently was not the wrong path. This has led me to pursue my dreams [...]

Many things have happened in this past 9 months of 2011. Eventful! Working on a startup that I co-own, menufy.com checks us out! I started a sweet job at perceptive software! Joined karate club and lost 20+ pounds and currently at ~12% body fat! I have tons of energy and I have made many new [...]

This tip is really just different ways to convert strings to numbers. Did you know that the follow code works just fine: var string_to_number = "10" * "10"; // result 100 I thought that was cool, but funky right? Note, this does not work with the “+” operator. So a cool way to convert a [...]

JavaScript has string concatting built into the langauge for example. var hello = "hel" + "lo" This is not the interesting point I wanted to talk about. It actually gets more interesting on what happens when you concat string literals with numbers. For example: var x = "33" + 3 // result "333" Notice the [...]

I first started development back in High School At a Career center. After picking HTML, JavaScript was the next “real” language my instructor required us to learn. I picked it up but the path was not easy. Several years and several languages later. My JavaScript skills were long forgotten. I must have been under a [...]

I have been playing around with PRISM 4.0 CTP and you would usually have to compile the assemblies from the code base. Here you can just grab them and drop into your lib directory. Includes docs for intellisence and pdb for debugging. Happy coding Note: these DLLs are from WPF. Grab DLLs Here

MacPorts, mysql5, mysqld_safe

Since I left academia, I have dove into the deep and started working with Microsoft tech. From now on I will still have to use Microsoft tech because of work, but I promise to maintain my skill levels in all the linux based work I used to do. First I will start by refreshing on [...]

I am starting a record here, to document my learning experience with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). Learning because of a business need. I have started a cool project at work and in order to make our latest product the greatest it can be, I have to learn as much as possible about WPF in order [...]