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Yearly Archives: 2011

Major Ruby OData Update v0.1.0

It’s here! I’m happy to announce a major release of ruby_odata, v0.1.0. There are many enhancements found in this release so let’s dig in and see what’s new. There is one thing that we need to get out of the way first, a breaking change. In v0.0.10 and below, queries and some instances of calls [...]

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Ruby OData Update v0.0.10

I’m happy to announce that today, ruby_odata has continued to move forward by adding additional features and fixing bugs. I skipped an update for v0.0.9, so let’s revisit what was added/fixed back then. The major change was support for self-signed SSL certificates. That addition was courtesy of J.D Mullin. I’m sure you remember his contributions [...]

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Silverlight 4 Multi-Binding Converter Enhancement

We have been using Colin Eberhardt’s MultiBinding Converter for Silverlight for quite a while now. It was great until we realized a problem.  When the MultiBinding Converter was off screen (hidden), it would throw a binding error stating that it couldn’t convert null to whatever (in our case it was an integer in one converter [...]

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Silverlight 4 Drop-Down Problems in Popup

Are you running Silverlight and using a Popup and a “drop-down” control like a ComboBox (or DatePicker, TimePicker, etc) as a child? You may be seeing some odd behavior when you expand the ComboBox. The “drop-down bit” ends up positioned from the left of your screen, not where it is supposed to be positioned.  Hmmm. [...]

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Introducing a Ruby Wrapper for Google Books API

Books.  Personally, I own a ton of them.  Add in my wife’s collection, and phew.  A few years ago, I decided to get my collection under control.  I have bookcases upon bookcases all over the place and I would lose track of my books.  I wanted to catalog my collection, so I built a site [...]

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