Archive for December, 2008

New Front Page

I’ve never really been happy with the front page of hackification.com – previously it was just the standard WordPress list-of-articles one. I’ve finally taken a bit of time to re-do the front page into a sort of “magazine” style, to try to reveal more of the content to visitors, and more importantly, to reveal the [...]

A Double Handful of Programming Quotes

I’m busy tidying up a few loose ends with work at the moment, before family arrive for Xmas – and I just haven’t have any time for in-depth articles. So instead of my own words, here’s a few of my favourites from other people:

Developing a jQuery Plug-In: Virtual Earth Maps

One of the really nice features of the jQuery JavaScript library is that it allows you to very easily write plug-in methods for it. Custom jQuery plug-ins are called by the end-user in exactly the same way as the core jQuery methods, and make use of the powerful querying syntax. On top of all that, [...]

LINQ-to-Entities: Follow-Up

There’s been a bit of discussion about my last article, “LINQ-to-Entities: The Blackberry Storm of ORMs?“. I thought I’d try to clear up a bit of what I was trying to say, especially with regards my statement about LINQ-to-Entities returning differing values depending on code order.

LINQ-to-Entities: The Blackberry Storm of ORMs?

(In case you missed the reference, the new Blackberry Storm has been widely slammed as an inferior copy of the iPhone, and was released basically unfinished to try to fend off its better rival).
Note: the first part of this article is a bit of an opinionated rant – if you want to skip to the [...]