Node Streams: the easy way

How to compose streams with pipe function: Node Streams are Awesome. This is where node.js is really awesome: doing complex thing the easy way.

EDIT: Another article about node’s streams and particularly pipe: Solving Coding Challenges with Streams which use a succession of Stream.Transform derived classes to convert kind of data along pipe flow. Using local variable, it’s trivial to aggregate multiple subsequent input data into output one.

POCO C++ Libraries

This is a C++ small cross plateform library for network prgramming:  Overview | POCO C++ Libraries. Some kind of minimalist version of Boost :). There is also a good introduction on Wikipedia here.

Don’t be foolish, POCO is for POrtable COmponents.

Edited: Now POCO is available on Windows 8.1 or Windows Phone 8.1 including OSC, UDP and TCP. Thanks to MS Open Tech.

How to use WinEventProc to insert custom code in standard event processing

How to use WinEventProc to insert custom code in standard event processing: Adding a sound to the Alt+Tab window – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs (don’t be abused to the title of this post, a event is also added when “you move focus to a new item”).

Do Strong Name or not

A post about problems of strong naming in nuget world: Code, code and more code.: SNK, we need to talk….

And a link in comment to a tools to add strong name of external assemblies: StrongNameSigner.

JSON Schema and Hyper-Schema

Perhaps a good candidat for json specification: JSON Schema and Hyper-Schema.

Some examples for schemas are here.

This schemas are integrated to Visual Studio 2013 Intellisens.

Windows rules for valid filenames

Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces Windows.

Solution Dependency Viewer extension

At least a dependency graph among project in a solution: Solution Dependency Viewer extension.

NString

From Thomas Levesque, a bunch of usefull string extension and a string format extended to fields and properties (use Regex to find named placeholder and Expression compilation to access it).

Supported syntax is less rich (no sub-property, no indexer) than DataBinder solution (like FormatWith 2.0 – String formatting with named variables) but it doesn’t require dependency on System.Web and can be PCL).

thomaslevesque/NString · GitHub.

Edit: We can refer to Fun With Named Formats, String Parsing, and Edge Cases and .Net ObjectFormatter – Using Tokens in a Format String for two other implementations and interesting discussion of how to escape brace and how to proceed. Basically, we have:

1. to find {Xxxx}, either Regex or a hand coded parser using a small state machine,
2. to evaluate Xxxx against an object instance :
   1. pure Reflexion to read field or property,
   2. Expression.Compile to read field or property,
   3. DataBinder.Eval with a rich syntax but slow and introducing a dependency on System.Web,
3. to replace {Xxxx}, either Regex.Replace or using a generated standard String.Format with positional {2} or a manual construction.

NHotkey

A library providing an elegant extension to WPF key binding:

<Window.InputBindings>
        <KeyBinding Gesture="Ctrl+Alt+Add" Command="{Binding IncrementCommand}"
                    HotkeyManager.RegisterGlobalHotkey="True" />
        <KeyBinding Gesture="Ctrl+Alt+Subtract" Command="{Binding DecrementCommand}"
                    HotkeyManager.RegisterGlobalHotkey="True" />
    </Window.InputBindings>

to register global hotkeys.

thomaslevesque/NHotkey · GitHub.