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Adventures with Ajax and ASP.Net

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Due to my new job, where I’m developing a web based ASP.Net WYSIWYG editor, I’ve been playing with several Ajax components available in the jungle out there. Until now, I found two with merit, and I’ll be using both at same time because I found that they complete each other. The point is that there […]


And the Designer gets live

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

After a litle time of work, I managed to get the Centaurus Database Designer retrieving the schema from real databases, using Centaurus.Data, of course. I tested it with some databases, some very large, and it works quite well. There are only a few (drawing) bugs on relations, nothing critical. The current SVN revision has many […]


Centaurus Database Designer

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

In the past 2 days I’ve started and… done nothing but it… I’ve done it using ‘pure’ Gtk Widgets and no Canvas. While the design itself was easy, making the table move and resize was even more easy except by the time it took me to figure out the right coordinates translations 😛 The relations […]


Intelligent objects

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

When I was working on the code folding patch to MonoDevelop, I had curious problem. I wished that the buffer returned only the code to everything and the folded version to some internal methods I used. The problem could only be solved implementing an internal method that I invoked to return the folded version. Now, […]


Centaurus

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

I’ve been working on my free time trying to implement some more stuff on Centaurus. I still need to find some time to do the website, this one looks like crap. Anyway, I’ve done some refactoring and have implemented MySql support. I must confess that at begin I was a little “scared” because of the […]


Database-application relationship

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

The lack of information and low knowledge in real application’s development can trick us to do somethings that don’t really need to be done. I think the problem is in the development platforms themselves, often they don’t provide you all the “right” tools thus inducting the programmer not to go the right way. There is […]