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Damien White is a developer in Connecticut that simply loves coding. Ever since he was young, he has had a driving passion for computers and software development, and a thirst for knowledge that just cannot be quenched. He’s happy to share what he knows in his quest to learn as much as possible.

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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