How to replace Prototype with jQuery as the default Javascript framework in Rails 3.

This post will show you how to create a Rails 3 application without having the rails gem pre-installed, using only Bundler and the Gemfile

‘Getting started with Rails 3 using RVM’ shows how to install rails and use rvm to create an isolated gemset for the application with a .rvmrc file.

In this post, I show how to extract a Singleton Pattern, to reduce coupling and improve testability by using the Dependency-Inversion Principle

A view model base class to use with MVVM in WPF, with caching of PropertyChangedEventArgs for each property.

In this post, I’ll be showing how to use resources for which you don’t know in design time the key to use in xaml (maybe because you’re loading them dynamically), by binding them to view model properties.

This post discusses ObservableCollection, used in WPF data binding. It describes its basic uses, along with some sample code to help you better understand how it all works.

One of the biggest advantadges WPF has is its Data Binding features. Data Binding can be done in several ways, but the most common is using the INotifyPropertyChanged and INotifyCollectionChanged interfaces. For simple objects, all you need to do is implement the INotifyPropertyChanged, and raise the PropertyChanged event when your properties change. When you want to bind to a collection, you will want to use ObservableCollection<T>. This collection implements both interfaces, therefore notifying you when the items in the collection change and when the items’ properties change. This works great if you’re using standard collections. The problem arises when you want to use a custom collection. For databinding to work with custom collections, you will have to create a new “Observable” wrapper around it.

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Hi. My name is Pedro Sampaio and I work for FARO Technologies, in the SWE-UX team based in Oporto, Portugal. I’m just finishing setting up this blog and hopefully will start posting more regularly soon. Hope you all find my posts helpful and I look forward to some great interactions!