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My New Reading / Late Night Coding Lair..

holsee — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:41:18 +0000

With some cash I got for Christmas I thought I would spend it on creating a chilled out area in my house for reading and for some late night coding. I work remotely from a home office… I have a nice set-up, but I desire a space which is less formal and more relaxing. These items will go a long way towards achieving this:

XXL Bean Bag

Lap Desk

Blue Lava Lamp

Blue Plasma Lamp

…I welcome all suggestions! Kthx =]

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows

holsee — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:15:51 +0000

I have been blogging recently about a few commands I have found useful in setting up generic Server Core installations. I am using these to for a prototyping environment for my research into distributed computing. I thought it only responsible to let people know about Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows to save them from excessive cmd line hacking.

Windows Server 2008 is all about the Roles and Features. Remote Server Admin Tools allows this to be handled remotely.

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows® 7 enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on computers that are running Windows Server® 2008 R2, Windows Server® 2008, or Windows Server® 2003, from a remote computer that is running Windows 7. Microsoft.com

You can download the tools from here.
Guide to setting up Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows here.

Windows Server 2008 Server Core – Disable Firewall

holsee — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:27:12 +0000

You may wish to disable the firewall on the server core machine (not recommended if your machine is not in a private LAN), this can be achieved with the following command:

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off

Reference: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/datacenter/?p=480

Fluent Interface Resources

holsee — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:54:23 +0000

I thought as I study this topic that I would post links to resources that I have found particularly useful or interesting. I will update post periodically as I find more articles, posts, wikis and examples of interest on the topic and bang on my two pennies worth regarding my opinion of said resource.

Wikipedia: Fluent Interface

always a good place to start. Very Simple examples in many languages.

Scott Hanselman’s Post: Weekly Source Code Fluent Interface Edition

Another good place to start. Overview of what a fluent interface is, how they came to be, discussion of the ambiguity in terminology and examples in C#, Ruby and Python.

Martin Fowler’s Post on Fluent Interfaces

Martin discusses how fluent interfaces can be used to create a internal DSL. He makes reference to Eric Evans’ “Time And Money” Library as a good example.
A noteworthy point I gained from this post (even it is not explicitly discussed) was the concept of overloading methods named “with”.