If your after a twitter client with a clean modern GUI, take a look at Blu Twitter client.

http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/blu/

Thought i'd give a quick blog for people who want to use OpenSuSe 11.2 for Multimedia.

If your using GNOME as your desktop, you can use the following 1-click install for Codecs:

                 http://opensuse-community.org/codecs-gnome.ymp

If your using KDE as your desktop, you can use the following 1-click install for Codecs:

                 http://opensuse-community.org/codecs-kde.ymp

For DVD playback click on the following:

                 http://opensuse-guide.org/ymp/dvd.ymp

For MPlayer and VLC media players click on the following links:

                 http://packman.links2linux.org/install/mplayer     

                 http://packman.links2linux.org/install/vlc

For NVIDIA driver installation click on the following link:

                 http://opensuse-community.org/nvidia.ymp

For AMD/ATI driver installation click on the following link:

                 http://opensuse-community.org/ati.ymp

There are a lot more simple 1-click installs, remember google is your friend.

Team Vodafone finishes the first race is Abu Dhabi in 1st (Jamie Whincup) and 2nd (Craig Lowndes) place.

Great start to the 2010 Season. 

Team Vodafone adds social networking to their website:

Team Vodafone has launched its 2010 Website.

http://www.teamvodafone.com.au/

If your looking for Windows Twitter clients.. Take a look at these:

http://seesmic.com/seesmic_desktop/look/features/

http://www.sobees.com/

http://www.digitweet.com/

http://code.google.com/p/wittytwitter/

As I find more clients I'll add them to my list.

While the LINQ to SQL technology is amazing it does have some missing features.

That is until now.... Take a look at PLINQO  ( http://plinqo.com/ )

Comparison Operators

db.User.ByAge(21, CodeSmith.Data.Linq.ComparisonOperator.GreaterThan);

Detach

Task task = null;
using (var context = new TrackerDataContext())
{
    task = context.Task.FirstOrDefault(t => t.Id == 1);
    task.Detach();
}
 
task.StatusId = 1;
 
using (var context2 = new TrackerDataContext())
{
    context2.Task.Attach(task, true);
    context2.SubmitChanges();
}

Clone

using (var context = new TrackerDataContext())
{
    var u = context.Manager.User.GetByKey(1);
    User clonedUser = u.Clone();
    clonedUser.Id = 0;
    context.User.InsertOnSubmit(clonedUser);
    context.SubmitChanges();
}

Serialization

Here is a sample of serializing an object using PLINQO.

Task task = context.Task.GetByKey(1);
string xml = task.ToXml();
byte[] b = task.ToBinary();

Deserialization is also made simple with PLINQO

task = Task.FromXml(xml);
task = Task.FromBinary(b);

Query Result Cache
//query is cached using the default settings
var tasks = context.Task.ByAssignedId(UserId).FromCache();
 
//query result is now cached 300 seconds
var approvedUsers = context.User.ByIsApproved(true).FromCache(300);

Cache Manager

CacheManager.Set("user-17", user, CacheSettings.FromDuration(30));
User user = CacheManager.Get<User>("user-17");
CacheManager.Remove("user-17");

Many to Many Relationships

Auditing

Rules Engine

A rule for the minimum length of UserName is added.

static partial void AddSharedRules()
{
    RuleManager.AddShared<User>(new CustomRule<string>("UserName", "UserName must be 5 characters.", MinLengthUserName));
}
 
private static bool MinLengthUserName(string username)
{
    if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(username) || username.Length < 5)
        return false;
    else
        return true;
}

When any rules are broken, no data is updated and a nice list of the rules broken is returned.

using (var context = new TrackerDataContext())
{
    User user = new User();
    context.User.InsertOnSubmit(user);
    context.SubmitChanges();
}

Performance Improvements

Batch Updates and Deletes

Stored Procedures with multiple result sets

Future Queries

Here is a quick sample.

// build up multiple queries
var q1 = db.User
    .ByEmailAddress("<a class="linkification-ext" href="mailto:one@test.com" title="Linkification: mailto:one@test.com">one@test.com</a>")
    .Future();
     
var q2 = db.Task
    .Where(t => t.Summary == "Test")
    .Future();
     
// this triggers the loading of all the future queries
var users = q1.ToList();
No data is retrieved until q1.ToList(); is executed. At that time, PLINQO knows to execute all the future queries automatically. The data is both batched and not retrieved until it is needed.

Not only can you queue up execution of queries for the future, the results can be cached as well. Again, PLINQO makes things easy. Here's a quick look at FutureCache.
// cache these results for 120 seconds
var q1 = db.User
    .ByEmailAddress("<a class="linkification-ext" href="mailto:one@test.com" title="Linkification: mailto:one@test.com">one@test.com</a>")
    .FutureCache(120);
 
var q2 = db.Task
    .Where(t => t.Summary == "Test")
    .FutureCache(120);
 
// this triggers the loading of all the future queries
var users = q1.ToList();

Linq to SQL Profiler

The list goes on and on and on...

If your serious about LINQ to SQL you really need to take a look at PLINQO... Its amazing.

CastleSoft is now developing software for android phones, netbooks, tablets and PC's.

If you need an application for your new Google Nexus phone or Netbook/Tablet device.

CastleSoft can develop an application for your business requirements.

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