Blog of the Phatsana

Javascript .NET 0.4

2010-09-27T13:00:00.002-04:00

I post a review a month ago about this project:
http://blog.phatsana.com/2010/08/javascript-net-embed-v8-engine-into-net.html

They just release the version 0.4 and there is a lot of new features has been added that are quite interesting.
Here the link to the project on Codeplex: http://javascriptdotnet.codeplex.com

Here a list of the new features:
• JavascriptContext.Run() now has an optional parameter to supply a name for the executed script.
• Signed assemblies (key.snk) for the GAC.
• Improved data conversion for Property assignments.
• Added Array conversions (array element types).
• toString() maps to ToString() for CLI objects.
• Improved Exception handling.
• Improved parameter correspondence in method invocation.
• Member lookup performance improvements.
• Removed unnecessary internal string handling (UTF8 conversions).
• Performance improvements in string handling.
• Removed dead code.
• Improved .NET method invocation.
• Wide character support improvements.
• Various bug fixes.
• Improvements to regression tests.

Wolfram Mathematica Online Integrator

2010-09-16T13:00:00.002-04:00

It is a great tool when you need to resolve a fast integral equation or when you forgot the methods to resolve it. It works very well and I recommend it.

Just go take you look and you will see: Wolfram Mathematica Online Integrator

IE Tester: Browser Compatibility Check for Internet Explorer Versions from 5.5 to 9

2010-09-07T23:55:00.000-04:00

IE Tester (http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage)

I guess that the title explain clearly what this software does. IE Tester is a tool that I was very happy to discover when I was testing some websites for compatibilities. It delivers the right result for IE6 and IE7. I no longer need to create a virtual machine to run IE6 and it saves me countless times.

Try it, you won't regret it.

SEO Doctor: A tool that follows SEO guidelines

2010-09-01T23:55:00.002-04:00

Hi folks,

SEO Doctor (http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/browser-addons/seo-doctor)

Here another SEO tool that can become handy when you want to follow the general SEO guidelines to optimize your website for the search engines. It is a Firefox's add-on that. It gave a lot of useful information that you could have neglect like the minimum or maximum numbers characters of the meta description or meta title. The tool is quite helpful since it gave a score to your site on 100. The score is higher if your website is SEO-friendly and it shows details of what you can do to enhanced your website.

It is indeed a tool that is easy to use since you just install it and then check the score that the tool return you and then modify your website with the suggest corrections. I use it often when I modify some texts in a web-page so I can get the maximum score to be SEO-friendly.

Overall, SEO Doctor is a tool that I recommend for SEO.

That's all.

Later.

C# Station: A really good tutorial for C# beginners

2010-08-31T23:55:00.004-04:00

C# Station (http://www.csharp-station.com/)

I highly recommend this website if you want to learn C#, because it is explained with details. I used this tutorial when I started learning C# and it was really smooth. I'm used to code in C++, but I saw a lot of similarities so it was great.

There is a bunch of examples to help you understand and it is really well explain.

That's it.

WiX: Window Installer XML, great installation toolset

2010-08-28T14:14:00.002-04:00

WiX (http://wix.codeplex.com) is an open-source project and is something that you are going to need someday if you develop a software. It a toolset that create the Windows installations packages of your software for you. The only requirement is that you understand the XML syntax, which is not hard at all. Without a doubt, this toolset will save you countless time.

The excellent tutorial about WiX (http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix) give you all the basic knowledge with samples so you can understand the functionality that WiX give you. Even though, you probably want to get a more custom installer

It does a really good job, you should give it a show.

That's it.

Sound Serum: Sweet HTML5 site with original electronic music

2010-08-25T20:07:00.005-04:00

Hi everyone,

I would like to introduce you to this awesome HTML5 site, which is Sound Serum (www.soundserum.com). I discover this site a few months ago when I was searching for some new music and I found this site. I really love the design, it's really smooth and the music player is well-done.

Sound Serum Website

When I code some stuffs, I really love to have some background music and this site really deliver some pretty good electronic soundtracks plus there is always some new ones from time to time so it's just awesome. If you are like me and doesn't have their own music on them this site is for you, you just type www.soundserum.com and here you go with some nice electronic soundtracks.

I hope you like it.

Cheers !

Rank Checker: Keep track of your ranking with specific keywords

2010-08-21T11:30:00.005-04:00

Rank Checker (http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/)
Today, it is about the Rank Checker, it is a SEO tools to keep track of your website's ranking related to selected keywords that you choose to optimize your website with them. This tool is quite handy to keep track of the progress of some specific keywords. It is really easy to use:

They also show all the possibilities and limits of this tool on their website and it is quite impressive for an open source tool. I really enjoy how it easy to use.

That's it, hopefully this tool will be of a great help for you.

Later.

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)

2010-08-21T11:24:00.001-04:00

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation, which is the concept to get a website a better ranking in the search engine results. Neither to say that anyone who wants a website would want to have some traffics on it so people can visit it.

Nowadays many people use Google, Yahoo or Bing to search for some information on the Internet that is why you have to all means possible to optimize your site to be SEO Friendly. They're so many ways to achieve this ultimate goal, but how can we keep track of our progress in this matter?

This is why I'll show you some SEO tools that I use on a regular basis that could help you on your quest to get to the first page of a search engine. I'll post every SEO tools on separated posts.

That's it.

Emotiv: The future of software engineering ?

2010-08-19T23:46:00.003-04:00

I recently watch a video of the channel TEDTalks on Youtube about a headset that could read the brainwaves and transmitted it to a software and I was quite impress of the demonstrations.

Yet after seeing this, I wondered what were the limits of the functionality of the headset and on the other hand it is indeed impressive of what it can do, but how many signals can be caught by a software and are we limited with the hardware of the headset or can we increase the brains signals processing with just a software? So many questions to ask, but from the look of it, it looks very promising perhaps it too soon to say it the "future" since it still in development.

If we check this on the positive side, the possibilities are pretty endless and so many applications can be created like handheld applications, video games, software development tools and many more. The developer edition of Emotiv is 500$ at the moment, but unfortunately you don't have access to all the features of the headset since the full edition is 7500$ at that price you must be sure of the product you want to develop with it since it pretty expense if you ask me.

I'm looking forward to seeing the progress of this project perhaps someday I'll have the chance to take a look at the SDK and dig in on this mysterious headset.

See more informations about Emotiv on their website: http://www.emotiv.com/

That's it folks !

Cheers.

Javascript .NET: Embed v8 engine into an .NET application

2010-08-18T04:54:00.009-04:00

Hi folks,

I'm going to talk about the Javascript .NET open source project that can be found on Codeplex (http://javascriptdotnet.codeplex.com) develop by Noesis Innovation. It has been released in July 2010 and it looks very promising overall.

// Initialize the context
JavascriptContext context = new JavascriptContext();

// Setting the externals parameters of the context
context.SetParameter("console", new SystemConsole());
context.SetParameter("message", "Hello World !");
context.SetParameter("number", 1);

// Running the script
context.Run("var i; for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) console.Print(message + ' (' + i + ')'); number += i;");

// Getting a parameter
Console.WriteLine("number: " + context.GetParameter("number"));

Basically, they took the v8 Google Javascript engine and exposed it to CLI with managed C++ since v8 is pure C++. It also exposed the CLI objects to the Javascript, which is pretty damn sweet if you ask me. Even though it doesn't include all the CLI objects available yet since the project has just been released, but it supports the most important ones like your own implemented class, System::Array, System::Dictionary and System::List. It works pretty smoothly and a community is building little by little around it so the issues are tracked and handled more easily to make the project more stable.

Overall, it's really easy to use if you're familiar with .NET, you just put your Javascript in a context and boom it just works like it is. I'm looking forward to some more sweet improvements.

So that's it ! Later.