Guido Tapia

Guido Tapia

Director of Software Development and Machine Learning Services at PicNet

Guido manages the Software Development and Machine Learning teams at PicNet. They specialise in delivering complex systems that are usually beyond the capabilities of regular outsourcing companies. Such systems as; highly distributed systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions, business critical applications, etc.

Guido Tapia

December 10, 2009

Javascript runtime compilation using Asp.Net and Google's Closure Compiler

Working on complex javascript projects usually means working with lots of javascript files. When it comes time to deploy this to production it can be be very tedious and sometimes dangerous to do this manually. This solution compiles all the javascri ...

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Guido Tapia

November 10, 2009

Game of Life in JQuery

Hi All, I've just done a tutorial video on JQuery, I chose to hack together a quick version of the Game of Life. This tutorial aims to show how JQuery can help you modify the DOM on the fly and do some nifty manipulations. I hope you enjoy. Please le ...

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Guido Tapia

October 27, 2009

Advanced Javascript Tutorials

I've decided to do a series of videos on using Javascript. I believe that js is one of the most poorly used tools out there and I think that is because it is different to most languages and those differences are slight enough to slip under the covers ...

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Guido Tapia

September 25, 2009

Rendering a Spark Partial View to a string

I needed to do this recently so I searched the interweb and quickly found this great article by Brent Edwards: http://blog.edwardsdigital.com/post/Rendering-a-Spark-partial-view-to-a-string-or-JSONP-with-ASPNET-MVC.aspx Now don't get me wrong, this w ...

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Guido Tapia

September 10, 2009

XML Settings Files - No more web.config

One of my pet hates is working on projects where previous developers have decided to dump all of their settings in the web.config file. Some of the reasons why I dislike this practice is: So now lets look at the nice way of doing this. A settings fil ...

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Guido Tapia

August 12, 2009

Sharing MVC Views Across Projects

This is something I have been wanting to do for a while in the ASP.Net world however its not untill recently (with MVC) that this has been a ‘clean' possibility. This article demonstrates how to do this. At PicNet are always trying to deliver quality ...

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