Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Whole wheat cranberry date bars

These whole wheat and oatmeal breakfast bars are flavored with cranberries and dates and has a few positive reviews from readers.

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Whole wheat energy bars

These healthy bars have plenty of fiber from wheat bran and wheat germ and are sweetened with dried fruit, applesauce and honey instead of sugar.

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More breakfast bars and cereal bars to try

Here's a few more breakfast bar and granola bar recipes to try:

Oatmeal Cereal Bars Use any kind of cereal you like to make these bars. There's plenty of maple syrup in this recipe, so while it's free of refined sugar, it's still quite sweet. Pictured.

Chocolate peanut butter rice crispies This rice crispy squares recipe uses corn syrup and peanut butter (and chocolate!) instead, making it both vegetarian, vegan, and super yummy!

Cornflake cereal bars Another incredibly easy way to make cereal bars, this one using corn syrup and cornflake cereal.

Peanut butter granola bars Homemade granola bars may be easier to make than you think. This easy vegan recipe has just six ingredients.

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Il sistema periodico del cosmo

Un semplice diagramma, pubblicato esattamente un secolo fa, è ancora oggi il più importante strumento concettuale dell'astrofisica stellare

di Ken Croswell
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Il ritorno della grande aurora

Nel 1859 una tempesta solare di incredibile violenza fece impazzire i telegrafi di mezzo mondo. Se un simile evento si ripetesse oggi, le conseguenze per la nostra civiltà tecnologica sarebbero ben più drammatiche.

di Sten F. Odenwald e James L. Green
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Tips and Tricks added

ASP.NET

MVC Test Driven Developement : Session Variables - Russell Aboobacker
When you write a controller which is unit testable, it would be better to avoid any dependency to the HttpContext to make the things easier. If you are using any of the session variables in your controller, it will make your controller difficult to test. (Unedited)
ASP.NET, MVC
A generic Image-From-DB class for ASP.NET - OriginalGriff
Getting an image from a database and displaying it in an ASP.NET page is something we have to do quite often. Here is a generic class which does the job for you. (Unedited)
C#, ASP.NET

ASP.NET Controls

Style ASP.NET's RadioButtonList to be a Tabstrip - Kamilche
How to make your RadioButtonList look and work like a normal HTML tab control. (Unedited)
ASP.NET, TabControl

Database

Steps to install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition (Standard or with Advanced Services) - Ieshua
This brief article show how to install quickly Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition Standard or with Advanced Services (Unedited)
Windows, SQL-Server (SQL2008), Server, Microsoft
Export data from SQL Server as XML - seankk
(Unedited)
XML, SQL, SQL-Server (SQL2005)
The Evil That is "Select *" - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
Just say no to SELECT * in your SQL (Unedited)
SQL

Vista Security

Vista Profile Services Problem - Dalek Dave
Fixing a Profile Services Problem when administrator password will not allow access. (Unedited)
Vista, security, Registry.

Windows Communication Foundation

WCF does not support Compression out of the box, so fix it - Omar Al Zabir
WCF does not support Compression out of the box, so fix it (Unedited)
IIS (IIS6, IIS7), WCF, performance, scalability

Algorithms & Recipes

Using bitwise operations to filter results based on user selected filters in javascript - yiangos
How to use javascript bitwise operations to filter out search results based on user selected filters in checkboxes (Unedited)
Javascript

Programming Tips

Faster way i Know for thumbnail (low quality) - Shargon_85
(Unedited)
C#, GDI, GDI+, image, ImageProcessing, Images
All the jobs in SQL Server - seankk
(Unedited)
SQL, SQL-Server (SQL2005)
Highlight ListView items - Nadege Deroussen
(Unedited)
C#4.0, WPF
Encrypting all the Stored Procedures of a Database - qadirv
Quick C# console application to Encrypt all your database stored procedure. (Unedited)
C#, SQL-Server (SQL2005), Visual-Studio, Encryption, smo
Blowfish Encryption Implementation in .Net - Ravinder Singh, PMP
Blowfish encryption is very popular for encrypting data but its really hard to find a simple .net implementation of this algorithm. This articles tries to solve this problem. (Unedited)
C#, Encryption
Execute later for delayed action - Ayyhan
Code blocks are executed asyncronously in the UI thread after a given timeout. (Unedited)
programming
Change Windows User Password in Visual C++ - Sayyeid Mostafa Hashemi
Change or Create user password on windows 7 with VC++ (Unedited)
VC10.0
WPF : TemplateBinding in code - Saraf Talukder
(Unedited)
WPF

Uncategorised Tips and Tricks

Exposing DataContext For Automation - Andrew Rissing
Using an attached behavior to expose the value of a DataContext for Automation (Unedited)
C#, WPF, testing

Hardware & System

Preventing viruses to enter USB drive in Windows - Praveen Kullu
Preventing viruses in a USB drive in Windows (Unedited)
Windows, USB

Installation

Configure apache localhost to use secure HTTP (HTTPS) using mod_ssl - Aniruddha_Loya
How to set up Apache 2.2 on MacOS to test websites with self generated certificates in order to verify settings for secure HTTP (HTTPS) (Unedited)
Apache, Web-Development, HTTP

Site & Server Management

Jet Ole DB 4.0 not registered 64-bt Win 2008 - HGR-HH
We had the same issue with a Windows application accessing xls files in code. We run it with Citrix on Windows 2008 64 bit and for us, the suggestion to compile at least the executeable project with the "Platform target" property set to "x86" instead of "Any CPU" was the solution (the only one... (Unedited)
Windows, ASP.NET, 64-bit

Programming Tips

Blowfish Encryption Implementation in .Net - Đỗ Hồng Ngọc
Using IKVM is not "so simple" as you said. There are some implementations of Blowfish in C#. You can refer to:http://www.koders.com/csharp/fidD5E0D7AC50858EA8F7131E8CD2746F3471A1B953.aspx[^]http://www.schneier.com/code/blowfish.cs[^]and,http://www.bouncycastle.org/csharp/[^] (Unedited)
C#, Encryption
How to zero your memory? - YvesDaoust
What about this, using SSE2 assembly (32 bits):void Zero(void* Buffer, int Count){ char* Cur= (char*)Buffer; char* End= (char*)Buffer + Count; // Clear the initial unaligned bytes while (Cur < End && (Cur - (char*)0) & 0xf) { *Cur++= 0; } // Clear... (Unedited)
C++, C
32-Bit or 64-bit OS ?? - Mihai MOGA
WOW64 is the x86 emulator that allows 32-bit Windows-based applications to run seamlessly on 64-bit Windows. WOW64 is provided with the Operating System and does not have to be explicitly enabled. A 32-bit application can detect whether it is running under WOW64 by calling the IsWow64Process[^]... (Unedited)
C++, C#, .NET, Virtualization
All the jobs in SQL Server - Mika Wendelius
Or simply:exec msdb..sp_help_jobsp_help_job (Transact-SQL)[^] (Unedited)
SQL, SQL-Server (SQL2005)
C++ Tip: Aware of the confusion between delete with delete[] - BWake
It is a bad idea to treat built-in types differently than programmer defined classes. If you delete a dynamically allocated array of a built-in type without the brackets the memory buffer may go away just fine. This is not guaranteed. The VS2008 runtime throws an exception. There is a... (Unedited)
C++, programming
Convert Datatable to Collection using Generic - Vano Maisuradze
Very nice!I've modified ToCollection(this DataTable dt) extension function, so if DataTable column names and class property names are different, then you can use this alternative:public static List ToCollection(this DataTable table, Dictionary dic){ List lst = new... (Unedited)
C#, ASP.NET, collections, oops, Generics

Technical blogs added

Client side scripting

Pass a Name Value Pair Collection to JavaScript - newkie
Clean up the script hell in your projects. (Unedited)
C#, Javascript, Dev

Silverlight

Why Visual Studio Debugger is not working for my Silverlight Application? - _ Kunal Chowdhury _
"Why my Visual Studio debugger is not working for my Silverlight application?" - it's not a new question. People ask this several time in different forums. If you search on net, you may probably find the solution. But, in this post I am just sharing the solution once again for my blog readers and an (Unedited)
All-Topics
How can you detect Browser Information in Silverlight? - _ Kunal Chowdhury _
Read this post to know how to detect the browser information using the HtmlPage.BrowserInformation property. (Unedited)
C#, HTML, Silverlight
How to Close the Browser Window from a Silverlight Application - _ Kunal Chowdhury _
If you are developing a secured site and want to close the browser window just after the user logs out from the application, this small tip will help you. (Unedited)
C#, .NET, Silverlight, Dev

Web Services

Web Services in Ruby, Python and Java - Marek Piechut
Today I’ve had to prepare some examples to show that web services are interoperable. So I’ve created a simple web service in Java using Metro and launched it on Tomcat. Then tried to consume them using Python and Ruby. Here’s how it all finished… Web service in Java I’v (Unedited)
C++, Windows, QA
Generating Web Services Server Using Axis2 - Marek Piechut
You can not only generate WS clients with Axis2 but also server skeletons. (Unedited)
Windows, Dev

Windows Phone 7

Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View Part Two - Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes how to implement a conversation / messaging style application with Windows Phone 7. It covers how to style the speech bubbles and the scrolling of the conversation list view when the phone keyboard is shown. (Unedited)
Windows-Phone-7

Content Management Server

Ektron Content Types and AutoMapper - James Coleman
If you are working with Ektron you are probably already aware of Ektron SmartForms and the ability to turn them into strongly typed Content Types. If you are not familiar and want to get up to speed I recommend taking a gander at Bill Cava's webinar on the subject located here. This is a great step (Unedited)
All-Topics

C#

Default Extension methods - Pranay Rana
In this post I am going to discuss about Default extension method(s) which are use full when we query the data form the collection,array or performing operation while code using linq to sql.In .net framework there are number of extension methods which allows perform function on the the collection. B (Unedited)
All-Topics
Lazy initialization of object in C# with Lazy class - Pranay Rana
Lazy initialization of object in C# with Lazy class (Unedited)
All-Topics
Invoke a custom method when Crystal Report Viewers’ print button is clicked / Add custom button to Crystal Report Viewer Toolbar - Manjuke Fernando
How to invoke a method in our client application when the print button of the report viewer is clicked. (Unedited)
C#, .NET, Dev

Java

Java 7 listen for file/directory change - Marek Piechut
WatchService allows us to listen to changes in a directory without any pooling. (Unedited)
Java, Dev
J2EE JDBC based authentication with JPA Entities in Glassfish - Marek Piechut
How to do J2EE JDBC based authentication with JPA Entities in Glassfish. (Unedited)
Java, JDBC, Dev

Other .NET Languages

Promising features for languages in the future - stfairy
Several features from Traceur which are supposed to be promising in the future of programming language design (Unedited)
All-Topics

.NET Framework

Data Binding in .NET - Ankush Bansal
How the new WPF binding engine is an improvement over the WinForm binding engine. (Unedited)
C#, .NET, Dev

GPU Programming

Faster Sorting in C# by Utilizing GPU with NVIDIA CUDA - Adnan Boz
Introduction On this post I would like to give an entry level example how you can use NVIDIA CUDA technology to achieve better performance within C# with minimum possible amount of code. This is a very specific scenario where the main application is in C#, and the sorting algorithm is provided in C+ (Unedited)

LINQ

Ordering data in LINQ queries by more than one column - Pranay Rana
In this post I am going to show how to do ordering when you require to order data by using multiple columns. (Unedited)
C#, LINQ, Dev

Windows Communication Foundation

Video encoder and metadata reading by using Windows Media Foundation - Tamir Khason
At 1996-1997, together with Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft released API to work with media content (for example movies). They used to call it Quartz. This was very convenience set of interfaces and thus was widely used by industry. Now we call it DirectShow. Years passed, but DirectShow remains th (Unedited)
All-Topics

Windows Powershell

Generating Entity Classes dynamically in your build processes using PowerShell Scripts - Esteban Alvarez
CodeProject LINQ to SQL is a component of .NET Framework version 3.5 that provides a run-timeinfrastructure for managing relational data as objects. Developers using Visual Studio typically use the Object Relational Designer, whichprovides a user interface for implementing many of the features of LI (Unedited)
All-Topics

Date and Time

TIOBE Index: F# enters the top 20 for the first time - stfairy
TIOBE Index (Unedited)
XML, Windows

Parallel Programming

Parallel Programing, PLINQ and Globalization - George Mamaladze
Parallel Programing, PLINQ and Globalization (Unedited)
C#, Parallel

Programming Tips

SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Many to Many Relationships – Day 8 of 35 - pinaldave
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series (Unedited)
SQL, SQL-Server, DBA, Dev, Server, SqlServer

Uncategorised Tips and Tricks

SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Efficient Query Writing Strategy – Day 4 of 35 - pinaldave
Answer simple quiz at the end of the blog post and - Every day one winner from India will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 1. Every day one winner from United States will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 1. (Unedited)
SQL, SQL-Server, DBA, Dev, Server, SqlServer
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Overridding Identity Fields – Tricks and Tips of Identity Fields – Day 9 of 35 - pinaldave
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series (Unedited)
SQL-Topics

Design and Architecture

Namespace design technique, structuring your libraries using Test Driven Development - Esteban Alvarez
Structuring your libraries using Test Driven Development. (Unedited)
All-Topics, Architect, Dev
Low cost design of useful utility classes. - Esteban Alvarez
CodeProject >Utilities:Design of a compression gadget. Utility classes in software developmentprojects of all sizes exists with the purpose of supporting a particular functionally; fromcompression utilities to setting loaders are amongst the most common. However, what is the real meaningof a u (Unedited)
C++, Windows, WTL
Integration vs unit tests - Artem Smirnov
codeproject When people are talking about automated testing, unit tests get all the buzz. Alpha geeks do them all the time, Uncle Bob Martin blogs about them, Oprah invites them to her show, Mr.President.. well, you got the idea. When somebody mentions integration tests, it's like, "you should w (Unedited)
All-Topics, NHibernate

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

How we solved an engineering task for several years in PVS-Studio - viva64.com
How we solved an engineering task for several years in PVS-Studio (Unedited)
All-Topics
Dependency Injection For Dummies (aka Me) - Jared Wallace
CodeProjectFor me, Dependency Injection used to be this wild crazy slick design pattern that I could probably never implement. Well, I was recently on a project for a client that ended up being a perfect situation for a Dependency Injection type implementation. The system was comprised of several as (Unedited)
All-Topics
Project Euler Problem #3 - Jared Wallace
CodeProjectTime for Project Euler Problem 3.The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29.What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143 ?Ah. Prime numbers. This should be fun.Well first I think we need a fast and efficient way to generate prime numbers. There are many different to acc (Unedited)
All-Topics
Project Euler Problem #4 - Jared Wallace
CodeProjectMoving on along with these Project Euler problems, Problem 4 states this:A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers is 9009 = 91 × 99.Find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers.This just (Unedited)
All-Topics
Project Euler Problem #2 - Jared Wallace
CodeProjectSo these Project Euler problems have become quite addictive. I've actually already completed quite a few of them. However, this post will be devoted to problem number dos.Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the f (Unedited)
All-Topics
Project Euler Problem #1 - Jared Wallace
CodeProjectAlright, here we go on Project Euler. Time for the first problem:If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23.Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.That doesn't sound quite that hard. Righ (Unedited)
All-Topics
WPF: Dictionary Value Converter - Arik Poznanski
What’s the story? You want to convert an enum value to a bitmap image. That’s easy, here’s a solution Usually you would simply create a new value converter which has some custom code (e.g. a switch –case statement) to convert from the enum value to the relevant image. Is there a better solution (Unedited)
All-Topics
Filtered Search Sample (part 2 - tagging structure) - James Coleman
CodeProjectFor the second part of the Filtered Search Sample we are going to look at the data layer to support our Filtered Search presentation. The implementation here is being implemented with Sitecore as the data store but the pattern could easily be some other CMS or just a database.TaggingOur (Unedited)
All-Topics
Filtered Search Sample (part 1 - clientside) - James Coleman
I think we did a pretty nice implementation of site search on a recent project. It made effective use of jQuery, AJAX calls and a flexible service and data layer.Filtering allows the user to quickly widdle down the number of assets on a site to a more manageable result set. The Filter/Search area c (Unedited)
All-Topics
Any Method - Pranay Rana
Here I am going to discuss about Any method. (Unedited)
SQL-Topics
SqlMethod LIKE - Pranay Rana
In this post, I am going to discuss about the special method available in .NET Framework which allows to perform the like operation as we do in the T-SQL when searching data with string. (Unedited)
All-Topics, TSQL
Getting ready for breaking changes in Ivonna v.3 - Artem Smirnov
Getting ready for breaking changes in Ivonna v.3 (Unedited)
All-Topics
Project Euler Problem #5 - Jared Wallace
Project Euler Problem #5 (Unedited)
All-Topics
Back to the roots: .NET binary search and the meaning of the negative number of the Array.BinarySearch() return value - George Mamaladze
Back to the roots: .NET binary search and the meaning of the negative number of the Array.BinarySearch() return value (Unedited)
All-Topics
C# Tweaks – Why to use the sealed keyword on classes? - George Mamaladze
Why to use the sealed keyword on classes? (Unedited)
C#
Filtered Search Sample (Part 3 - service layer) - James Coleman
Filtered Search Sample (Part 3 - service layer) (Unedited)
All-Topics
Why .NET LinkedList does not support Concat and Split operations? - George Mamaladze
Why .NET LinkedList does not support Concat and Split operations? (Unedited)
C#-Topics
“Cancel me if you can” or PLINQ cancelability & responsiveness in WinForms - George Mamaladze
PLINQ cancelability & responsiveness in WinForms (Unedited)
C#, WinForms-Topics
Trivialities about nullable types - mrjvdveen
Sometimes things in the world of software are not that hard. They are just poorly documented or documentation is hard to find. This surely applies for some use cases of nullable types. This post shows the use of nullable types in generic methods and how it’s easier than you might think. An introduc (Unedited)
All-Topics
Log4j logger.error(Object) trap - Marek Piechut
Log4j logger.error(Object) trap (Unedited)
Java-Topics
Enable PDF viewing in Chromium - stfairy
Enable PDF viewing in Chromium (Unedited)
All-Topics
Technical knowledge accumulation in software development - markFaction
Technical knowledge accumulation in software development (Unedited)
All-Topics