development-lifestyle

Man, its been a while since my last blog-entry. I was really busy with all my university exams ( thank god its over for now :) )
and my appointments with a variety of companies because of my thesis, which i have to write.
I made a decision and go for one company which is specialized in SAP-Consulting and SAP-Softwaredevelopment.
Im a little afraid of ABAP (SAP-programming language), cause i have to learn it from scratch... but im gonna handle it!

In september,i try to post almost every day or week my experiences of the work there, problems, ABAP and so on.
Hopefully its going to be a great time...

 

As asked in a recent forum, how to unite two or more XML-Files of the same formation and scheme, I
instantly thought... THAT would be nice with LINQ! And I was right   I wrote a little tool, entitled
XMLUnion v0.0.1!

Here`s a short code-snippet how it`s done

With this little blog-entry I want to show the first "obvious" advantage of LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) on a small example.
As you can see in the following screenshot there are three version to sum up the elements of an array!


Version 1 is done with a For-Loop, which is the most common method to do things like that. In Version 2 I used the Foreach-Loop  as you can see. So things a little different with version 3, there I used the "power of LINQ" . You are able to use the Sum()-method which is provided by LINQ on an array , because an array implements IEnumerable. Its obvious that you can sum up the array-elements within one line of code, which is also more readable and less to write!
In my opinion the real strength of this use of LINQ will be showing when a programmer have to use nested For-Loops or something like that. In this situation the gain of readability and so on will be much greater than it is shown in the screenshot.

Since Silverlight 2 beta 1 was released at MIX08, there are a really cool video-series (screencasts) at channel9 entitled "Silverlight - What, Where and How?". In this dev4devs Screencasts Dave "DaveDev" Isbitski gives a brief introduction in how things work and can be done in Silverlight 2!

Here are the videos:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

...enjoy watching!

So by surfing the net I found a good video about the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 with some very interesting features I think...
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Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8. Watch Jane Kim explain how these features bring the power of mashups to the browser, and how you can tie your web site or service into IE8's chrome using only web standards and no custom C++ code.
Source: MIX| MIX Online
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So take a look at this video from the MIX 08 Conference:
 
First Look at IE8 Activities and WebSlices