While setting up this site, I was getting irritated with external links navigating away from the site. There are a couple of ways to resolve this and I started with a dumb brute force version of my own, but quickly realized there had to be a better way. I found a great Gem plugin by Keith Mifsud that solved the whole problem for me. https://rubygems.org/gems/jekyll-target-blank You can find the documentation of the 2 minor edits this requires on Keith’s website.

All too often we need to present users with a simple set of options based on an applicable enumerator. I found a great way to do this entirely with XAML, which makes it well suited for the MVVM pattern. Assuming your enumerator names aren’t too cryptic or disgusting, then this trick should work great for any control with an ItemsSource property. The best example of the ObjectDataProvider solution can be found on Ivan Derevianko’s blog.

Note: This is my work, but the this post was from a previous shared blog that the link to this code has since died. It was requested that I re-publish the work. Wrappers have always been something of a magical thing to me. It is the process of taking something programmatically impractical or just plain out of reach and making it more accessible. This would usually be a bullet proof and complete encapsulation of the thing being wrapped that hides anything they chose not to support. Well, that isn’t what I did here, but I certainly did a decent job emulating the complete encapsulation of the largely incompatible typed Autodesk.Fabrication.API.Item namespace. If I did it correctly, then I would have many thousands of lines in code, but I cheated by using ton of .Net reflection to get the most bang (functionality) for my buck (time) with less than 1000 lines of code. In this post I will show you how to use some various lisp functions to puppeteer the Fabrication API namespaces. This w...