for-dummies

Controllers in MVVM, How to get info from viewmodel to it's controller?

We are building an app using the MVVM pattern, we have controllers that wire up all the views and viewmodels using DI. All examples of MVVM I've seen are really simplistic and have 1 view. How do/should viewmodels talk back to the controller? The controller knows about the models and views, should the viewmodel send events back to the...

Getting started with Standard ML

I'm looking for some kind of "ML for beginners" guide - google has led me to some obscure mailing lists or way-over-my-head texts so far. The problem is, I have zero functional programming experience so far, and wrapping my head around the concepts has turned out far more difficult than expected. For example, the task I'm trying to do n...

Dummies guide to locking in innodb

The typical documentation on locking in innodb is way too confusing. I think it will be of great value to have a "dummies guide to innodb locking" I will start, and I will gather all responses as a wiki: The column needs to be indexed before row level locking applies. EXAMPLE: delete row where column1=10; will lock up the table unle...

Spring/Struts 2 Configuration - any dummies' guide??

I'm a beginner in practical real-world java programming. I don't really understand these basic things in Spring - using it for jdbc calls (without any ORM), mail api, configuring logger. I think, I got a bit scared with the configurations (long, time-consuming) that're required to get these things working. Can anyone recommend dummies ...

App.XAML where are you!!?

I am new in WPF. Created a new WPF UserControl. See that some people uses an app.xaml file in order to set inside application level ressources. My solution consists of a WinForm and a WPF UserControl. I don't see somewhere any app.xaml file. How to proceed? ...