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Dynamic Controllers in AngularJS

Dynamic Controllers in AngularJS

I have an AngularJS application, which offers a set of different tasks. In order not to limit myself in the future, I have one main controller, and sub-controllers for each task. The correct sub-controller is selected based on the task's URL. However, how do you inject a dynamic

How to connect Mono in Linux to Oracle

How to connect Mono in Linux to Oracle

Long post about all the steps I did can be found here: How I managed to connect from Mono in Linux to Oracle If you are using ServiceStack.OrmLite it is extremely easy in the end: Attention! This solution might bring problems with it if you need timezone aware TimeStamps

How I managed to connect from Mono in Linux to Oracle

How I managed to connect from Mono in Linux to Oracle

TL;DR How to connect Mono in Linux to Oracle I'm in the process of migrating a ASP.NET MVC application to Mono and Linux. We made the decision to have easier deployment for our clients based on Docker-containers. Looking at Mono's compatibility list, .Net 4.

Create Windows 8 Metro-like tiles with Bootstrap and AngularJS

Create Windows 8 Metro-like tiles with Bootstrap and AngularJS

There are many JavaScript libraries out there to create layouts with tiles like they are on the Windows 8 start screen. But when you already use Bootstrap and AngularJS, do you really need to add further libraries? - No, you don't. Here is a simple AngularJS directive which,

Implementing a simple hop-count algorithm in Apache Giraph

Implementing a simple hop-count algorithm in Apache Giraph

Hi, this is my second post after First steps with Apache-Giraph on Apache Giraph. I'll be writing a little bit about how you can use complex types in messages and in the vertex-state. To learn this I wrote a simple hop-count algorithm, you can find the full source

How to run Meteor in Cloud9

How to run Meteor in Cloud9

I've written a long question about this on Stack Overflow (Meteor with cloud9). Basically everything is written there, I just wanted to summarize it here and skip the useless things I found out. Initial Problem: Meteor can't be installed on cloud9, as it is described on

Update your BIOS from Linux

Update your BIOS from Linux

I just struggled for quite some time to update my laptops BIOS (DELL Latitude). I am running only Linux (Ubuntu) as my main OS and didn't want to install Windows just for the sake of updating my BIOS. I've found several helpful articles: * DellBIOS - from

First steps with Apache-Giraph

First steps with Apache-Giraph

I used Apache Giraph during a project for my studies. There is a great official Quick Start-Tutorial on how to set up Giraph on top of Apache Hadoop 0.20.203.0-RC1 and run your first example application. When you follow it, you will have a running environment where you

The Difference in (Un)Zip-Performance

The Difference in (Un)Zip-Performance

I got a nice present for Christmas, last year - a Windows 8 Tablet/Notebook convertible. With the extra battery in the keyboard and an Intel-Atom SoC the power lasts easily for 12h or continues use. Of course, since the only component which can drain the battery is the 10&

Always check the ModelState

Always check the ModelState

Ever came across weird behavior in your ASP.NET Views? - I did already several times, and this is what I've learned: Always check the ModelState. Most of you probably remember to clear the ModelState when you modify _POST_ed values. But I had to find out, that

How to Forward HTTP Requests in Windows 8 to a Hyper-V VM

How to Forward HTTP Requests in Windows 8 to a Hyper-V VM

Complicated title - that's pretty much, what I was looking for on Google, yet with only little success. At first, I found some instructions for Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012. After modifying the search query, some instructions for exporting a network connection in VMWare showed up. There were

E_ACCESSDENIED with Office Interop

E_ACCESSDENIED with Office Interop

Once upon a time, I had a nice little function which would open an Word-Document via Microsoft-Interop, export all bookmarks as a Dictionary<BookmarkName, StringBookmarkValue>. I would modify this dictionary and by pass it on to another little function, which would afterwards set all the values of the

Handling Bookmarks in OpenXML Word-Documents

Handling Bookmarks in OpenXML Word-Documents

I needed to re-implement my function of exporting all bookmarks of a word-document into a dictionary and than setting them based on the changes in the dictionary from Word-Interop to OpenXML SDK. I've found a very helpful answer on StackOverflow suggesting the following solution: IDictionary<string, BookmarkStart&

Problem Adding Ribbon-Control to Office AddIn Projects

Problem Adding Ribbon-Control to Office AddIn Projects

ThisRibbonCollection' does not contain a definition for 'GetRibbon'.... If you see this error, don't panic, the solution is rather simple. To make matters easier for you, Office AddIns have a partial class "ThisRibbonCollection" which is automatically used to define your Ribbon Control as

Hyper-V error "IDE/ATAPI Account does not have sufficient privilege to open attachment..."

Hyper-V error "IDE/ATAPI Account does not have sufficient privilege to open attachment..."

I have Microsoft Hyper-V running on my laptop (Windows 8). After the installation and configuration was a little bit of a pain (getting an Internet connection wasn't that easy for me) it works very well. Unfortunately I did another major mistake. I wanted to use my VM for

Simple Zoom for WPF Controls

Simple Zoom for WPF Controls

Recently, I had to implement a zoom - in / out - functionality into a WPF application. After some research I found out that there is a RenderTransform on the Grid-Control. Here you can define a ScaleTransform which is able to scale everything in the grid by a value of type

How To Stop a Storyboard

How To Stop a Storyboard

I have an application with a storyboard, which turns a icon that indicates that the application is currently busy. Because I don't have any chance to know, how long the application will be busy, the RepeatBehavior on the application is set to Forever and I have to stop