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i want to learn Expression blend.. ive been reading some blogs.. about it.. but the applications are some what hard to follow cuse i haven't had a crash course on Blend.. any good tutorial to learn the basics?? i think i need to learn XAML first..what do you recommend?
I also have a series of written Blend tutorials available, that I'd like to humbly offer. They were written as an introduction to Silverlight through Blend, demonstrating the areas where Blend can be more useful than Visual Studio.
Have a look at Jesse Liberty's Silverlight video tutorial series, which includes a couple of videos on Expression Blend. Learning XAML will be very beneficial to you, although is not absolutely required to use Expression Blend.
Check out my Button tutorial for beginners here.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/expression/ExpressionBlendButtons.aspx
More to follow...
Hope this helps,
Alan
Microsoft have some videos up on their Expression site as well. Seem fairly comprehensive:
Linkies
there's nice course for beginners by kirupa. it gives overall idea for beginners.
http://www.kirupa.com/net/getting_started_blend.htm
There's also a really nice course by Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/school/
Total Training have a fabulous array of Expression courses covering most products and versions
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The official website contains so simple tutorials. Are there some good websites like ASP.NET MVC 3 from Microsoft that provide everything from scratch about Yii.
do you checkout the guide?. it's pretty straightforward.
Personal this is a great set of tutorials to learn Yii from.
http://www.larryullman.com/series/learning-the-yii-framework/
Follow the guide as mentioned, then check out the Blog Tutorial
i learned it on the blog tutorial, took me about half an hour to learn that way. I also suggest making a real life app with it, then you learn a lot more, since you look for ways to solve the problem that come, and questioning is the best way to learn without a doubt
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I am in need of an outline on teaching VB6/VBA to some co-workers. The material I am pretty confident I can fill in, just need a sense of how to order the class material. Its not going to be hard core programming [nix the VB6 jokes please :) ] but do want to touch the basics. Any free outlines or even entire presentations out there that I can use? I've been looking but nothing concrete so far.
thanks
If you mean VBA say VBA, not VB6. They differ a great deal based on the object models available, and the actual language syntax is a fairly simple thing to pick up.
Just look for some Dummies, O'Reilly, etc. books to use as a teaching guide. Maybe even go with self-study making yourself available for questions and general help, and to prod them along.
Well I went to the public library and found a book called "Visual Basic In Easy Steps". that seems to have a good outline and it covers VB6 and VBA. Straight and simple.
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I've been looking around the net trying to find good resources for learning PostgreSQL's procedural programming language, PL/pgSQL.
So far the only thing I've managed to dig up is the tutorial in the PostgreSQL documentation. While that is good, I've been looking for something more in-depth. Can you recommend anything?
The best free intro to use along the official docs is at PL/pgSQL and its associated tricks page of non-trivial examples, although the translation is a bit rough in spots. More useful examples can be found rooting through the snippets page.
There are also decent chapters on PL/pgSQL inside "PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook" by Geschwinde/Schonig and "PostgreSQL" by Korry Douglas, both of which are a bit gentler intro to the language than the official docs. Those are both excellent general PostgreSQL books you might find useful for other reasons too.
I think that that best introduction are:
the docs
trying
trying
trying
With steps 2 - 4, you can usually get a pretty good help on irc - #postgresql on irc.freenode.net, and mailing lists.
http://www.postgres.cz/index.php/PL/pgSQL_%28en%29
plpgsql is simple - and it is very similar to PL/SQL (from Oracle).
I think it because of the way postgreSQL is structured and developed, the best place to search for tutorials is the on-line documentation.
The problem here is that the documentation assumes that you know what you want to do, you know the concepts, but you don't know how. Therefore you need to add a general database book in the mix in case you want to dwell into the concepts.
That's my taste of postgreSQL so far. It is different than MySQL or SQLServer where there are thousands of resources available, but quantity is matched here with the quality of the documentation.
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I found a question here about blogs on software development, but I would like to know which blogs on software testing this community reads.
If you just have to recommend more than one blog, post each one in separate answer, so others can vote on specific blog. :)
Thanks!
Edit: I am not interested in sites that aggregate other blogs, because as #Alan said (in his answer) there are both good and not so good blogs there.
My blog, of course, is quite interesting - but will not be to everyone. TestingReflections is nice because it aggregates a bunch of random test blogs, but the problem is that it aggregates the bad with the good. Many of the posts that make it to the site don't have much use.
It also depends on what you're looking for - are you looking for a blog on testing philosophy, one about functional test techniques, something about writing automated tests, something all-encompassing, or something different?
Abakas. It's written by my boss, but I'd recommend it even if that weren't the case.
Google Testing Blog
James Bach at http://www.satisfice.com/blog/ . Very good.
For Russian-speaking community is definitely:
http://it4business.ru/forum/index.php?showforum=192
But I think everybody knows that :)
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I need to implement a Diff algorithm in VB.NET to find the changes between two different versions of a piece of text. I've had a scout around the web and have found a couple of different algorithms.
Does anybody here know of a 'best' algorithm that I could implement?
Well I've used the c# version on codeproject and its really good for what I wanted...
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/diffengine.aspx
You can probably get this translated into VB.net via an online converter if you can't do it yourself...
I like An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations by Eugene Myers. I believe it's the algorithm that was used in GNU diff. For a good background see Wikipedia.
This is quite theoretical and you might wish to find source code, but I'm not aware of any in VB.
I don't know for sure if it's the best diff algorithms but you might want to check out those links that talks about SOCT4 and SOCT6
http://dev.libresource.org/home/doc/so6-user-manual/concepts
and also:
http://www.loria.fr/~molli/pmwiki/uploads/Main/so6group03.pdf
http://www.loria.fr/~molli/pmwiki/uploads/Main/diffalgo.pdf